Omron Body Composition Monitor With Scale by Sport Supply Group
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Digital camera reviews of Omron Body Composition Monitor With Scale
Digital camera Review: Great Scale
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale is really great if you are serious about keeping track of your weight for health reasons. When you diet, most of the time, you are losing water or muscle, not fat. This type of scale shows you weight, BMI, Body fat (%), Muscle (%), estimate of calories burned in a day, visceral fat (around the belly) and an estimate of your body age based on those figures. This is a lot better than a normal scale because it helps you target fat, not water or muscle.
The scale is a little complicated to set up when compared to normal scales that you just step on. You actually have to open the manual to figure it out. But after the initial 5 minute set up, it is a piece of cake to use. Just tap the on button on the bottom, lift the handle, tap the user number and step on the scale. First it takes your weight, then it does the other measurements. It has a memory to show you where you started and where you are now for each measurement, but, even better is the template weight diary worksheet that included to help you keep track of your progress on paper.
The only thing that could make this better would be to have some kind of PC/Mac connection so you didn't have to write everything down.
If you can get over the high price, you'll love this scale.
Digital camera Review: Great build quality, easy to use
Summary: 5 Stars
The first thing I noticed was the weight and durability of this unit. It is just over 6lbs, and feels very solid. The setup was very easy and the explanation in the manual of what each different measurement meant and where different age ranges should be was very helpful. I took the advice of the other reviewer on here and made a spreadsheet in excel to track my results. Between the 516 and the 514 the only difference that I can find is the memory in the unit, 180 days vs 90, but with such a small price difference the 516 is worth it.Digital camera Review: Great for tracking; not so great for the very muscular
Summary: 4 Stars
This product has a lot of neat (if not entirely useful) features that are fun to play with. It tracks weight, body fat, muscle, visceral fat and what age it thinks your body is (as opposed to pure biological age). Additionally, it stores the highest value for each of those items over time, so you can see how you are trending; which is exceptionally useful.
The reason I took a star away from a perfect score, is a small detail about the body fat calculations. Typical BIA devices generally modify the calculation for how much body fat you have, based on if you meet the guidelines they typically call "athlete" (meaning that you exercise more than 5 hours a week at a fairly intense level). This BIA device does NOT provide that functionality. If you fit the category of a regular intense exerciser and are female, you will find that it estimates a body fat percentage up to 5% more on this device than other BIA devices which have the athlete calculation (such as the Omron hand held BIA or the Tanita scale BIA).
Digital camera Review: Great if young and ok shape, very bad is old and bad shape
Summary: 3 Stars
Go with the 510 if you don't want resting metabolism (or estimated age). Go with the 500 if you want resting metabolism (and NOT estimated age). Go with the 516 if you want resting metabolism AND estimated body age. HOWEVER, IN MY EXPERIENCE I would caution you that I have both 510 and 516 and learned in comparing the two scales that the 516 does NOT give ANY parameters besides weight (like percent body fat) if your ESTIMATED body age is greater than 80 (probably is over 80 if you actually are over 60 and out of shape or actually over 40 and really out of shape). Tried my mom (62) on both and the HBF-516 kept giving error code "ERR 4", parameters out of range or something like that. BUT the HBF-510 didn't error out and gave her percent body fat and other things (except estimated body age and resting metabolism of course). I tried both scales myself immediately after her and the 510 and 516 worked just fine and yielded all expected variables for each model, go figure.Digital camera Review: Great scale, excellent price
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked into purchasing a similar scale several years ago, but I couldn't justify the cost then ($300-$500). This scale is a great bargain. It seems very accurate for weight and BMI, but what I really like is the body fat percentage and the memory function. It gives me a method to compare what exercises and foods are really working for me. My wife loves the calculated body age. It says she's 24. It tells me I'm 63. That's just rude.
I'm also using an Omron HEM-719IT blood pressure monitor and an HR-100C pulse monitor. It would be nice to be able to download all the data together into the Omron Health Management software that comes with the HEM-719IT to track progress.
Boring personal background:
I'm 41 and my wife is 38. We were married 6 years ago and she/we had a baby 1.5 years ago. Our long working hours and commutes and being up all night with baby left us with zero energy and no desire to prepare proper food. We would skip breakfast, eat fast junk at lunch and pick up fast food on the way home or order pizza. With our aging metabolism and our sedentary home life with baby, we both packed on the weight. Five months ago we decided enough is enough. She started back to jogging and I started back to the gym and cycling. She's lost 25lbs and is back to her pre-baby weight. I've dropped 30lbs and have another 20 to go. Sound familiar?