Fat-Scale?

[SkyDiver]

How accurate are fat scales? I wanna measure my body fat but don't know how good such scales really are.

thanks

 

[Cynic]

Neither accurate nor consistant. A held-held Omron bf tester is more consistant, but still suffers from the same margin of error as a scale.

 

[SkyDiver]

So there isn’t really an exact way to tell bf?

 

[Ryofire]

heres a thread i posted about body fat scales

http://www.fitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9186

 

[midlifecrisis]

My Tanita scale and Accumeasure calipers are within .5 of each other so I think they are pretty accurate.

 

[Cynic]

My Tanita scale and Accumeasure calipers are within .5 of each other so I think they are pretty accurate.

I doubt this statement very much.

 

[Cynic]

So there isn’t really an exact way to tell bf?

There is a manual skin fold caliper and a digital 7-pt, but by accufitness/accumeasure that are good. The digital is about $60 and the manual is about $10.