the fat measurement are simple to set-up(even a caveman can do it:), just enter male/female, age and higth) and they were were reliable in my case.
i purchased it for my boyfriend (who lifts daily) and he seems to like it, as well.
my wife programmed the scale for each of us and it's easy to use.
being a big boy, i needed something that would weigh in more than a normal scale, and i found it here.
oh, did i mention that it looks pretty sharp too.
that is not an issue as it is still consistent and both my husband and i have weighed within a few tenths of a pound when we weigh at home then go directly to jenny craig and weigh in there so i
both my wife and i like it very much.
as other buyers have mentioned, one has to lightly tap the surface of the scale to start it and reset it to 0.
as others have mentioned, there is a large,very hard-to-remove red sticker showing where you "tap" the scale (the middle of the glass platform) to turn it on.
for some reason tapping it with my foot couldn't get it to work although my husband didn't have an issue at all.
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
my wife loves the calculated body age.
tried my mom (62) on both and the hbf-516 kept giving error code "err 4", parameters out of range or something like that.
the % body fat feature is really motivating...as a guy i can't just go by by weight...it's amazing to see the % body fat go down when i'm eating right and working out...and my weight doesn't
i am a men's size 11 and the surface of the scale is just big enough for my feet.
i am a 6 foot male about 240 lbs and this scale says i have 6.6% body fat.
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the only chemical plants around here are the manure piles that the horses leave behind.
my wife asked for this scale and when i gave it to her, she loved it.
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i will be buying my mom this scale for christmas as she watches her weight and will enjoy having this tool to help her in those efforts.
some even mentioned no matter who got on, everyone weighed 174.4.
the scale makes me 34ilbs lighter than what i really am and it made my skinny 9 year old daughter 25ilbs heavier than what she really is and as for my bony friend (she weighs 120ilbs) when she
as far as the body fat goes...as far as all of the bells and whistles go i think they work pretty well because we know that it was accurate for my boyfriends body fat.
for me and my wife, if the reading is x% in the morning, it is x-0.6% in the afternoon and x-0.9% in the evening.
i had my 210 lb husband step on it and i was somewhere about 110 pounds.
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