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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone used the body composition scales? My gym has one but I’m not sure how reliable it is. Maybe it’s okay for monitoring relative progress.[/quote]

OP here and I just had a 4-week scan. I’ve lost a total of 2.5 pounds, including 1 pound of water (meh), 1 pound of fat (yay), and .5 pounds of muscle (boo). Apparently I’m not getting enough calories or protein so I’ve upped those, decreased weekly cardio from 60 to 40 minutes (mostly as a warm up for weight lifting), and increased lifting days from 3 to 4. We’ll see what happens this month.

I’m digging this data driven approach, but of course it’s only as reliable as the composition scale. I’m still hoping to see and feel a difference in how my clothes fit, but that hasn’t happened yet.[/quote]

These composition scales are extremely inaccurate. Get DEXA for an accurate measurement of fat mass. Lean mass is everything that is not fat on DEXA so it is not very useful for tracking muscle either. [/quote]

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