Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
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Customer Reviews of Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
Customer Review: Weighty Wonder
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one heckuva scale. It does everything. It looks fabulous and actually stays clean in our bathroom. Other scales are hard to clean, have you noticed? Not this baby! Just wipe and shine! It is notoriously too accurate to please most members of my household! The display is large and easy to read, and placed far enough toward the outer perimeter that those of us that must peer over some unwanted personal girth, can actually read the sad results without falling headfirst into a bath, sink or toilet bowl. Actually, by monitoring my weight carefully with this scale and making notes of the mass ratios, I have been able to take my belt in by two notches (that's quite a reduction folks!) and lose at least fifteen pounds since we got it two months ago.
So, it's not just a beautiful decor item for m'ladies bath, it is also a very useful, beautifully made precision device that works exactly as advertised and should give years of good service. The only detail I would comment on is the tiny ON button that is labled "OFF" (???!) that one must try and push with a toe, before the scale will read your weight.
If you just stand on it, it remains silent, mute, sans display readout.
They could have either made a larger ON button that says "ON" or better yet, like one of the other Tanita models I own or the Taylor that my daughter has, simply stand on it! Small issue, really. We love it!
Customer Review: How to Set this:
Summary: 4 Stars
I gave this 4 stars, but can't really judge it yet.....I have ordered this, and just talked to a Tanita rep. The manuals don't lay all this out, but this is apparently important for getting consistent readings: 1) Weigh yourself at approx. the same time AND later in the day when you are hydrated, and NOT when you first get up in the morning. Your body needs to be hydrated for the bioimpedance aspect of the scales to work well. 2) Whether to set ADULT or ATHLETE mode.....If you typically have a resting heart rate of 60 OR if you work out 10 hours or more weekly, set it for athlete. Otherwise, set it for ADULT.
I hope this model is better than the Tanita TBF 622 I got several years ago, although I admit I didn't know the info I posted above until just now. On my own Tanita I consistently measured a good 5% points higher than on my doctor's $3500 Tanita Professional scale. And then the other day I measured 11% below my Tanita setting when measured at the gym with an Omron hand held fat analyzer. However, I'm sure the same useage requirements apply for the professional scales, and I just hopped on his scales at an arbitrary time, and same case with the gym. Also, previously I was measuring myself in the morning after getting up and before eating. I think I read somewhere that you should also measure about 3 hours after eating.
Customer Review: good product but bad manual
Summary: 3 Stars
I read about this product in the ABS diet. I purchased it in order to monitor my weight and body fat %. Then when I got it from Amazon.com, I realised that it could measure so much more - visceral fat, water %, amt of muscle etc. But I could not figure out how to use the extra functions. I called the 1-800 tanita number on the back of the scale and in the manual and it was disconnected. I went to tanita.com and sent an email to customer service and then I called the office in Illinois. They explained that you need to step off the scale after getting your body fat and weight readings in order to get readings from the other buttons. This was not in the manual. I almost returned the scale cause this little piece of helpful info was not in the manual.
Two days after I had emailed Tanita, I got the following email from them "After you receive your weight and body fat % step off of the scale before pressing the other buttons. The manual does not advise the user to step off the scale after weight and body fat readings are obtained. The user must step off scale in order to obtain additional body composition measurements (i.e. Visceral fat, bone mass, etc.) This is not stated in the first printing of the manual, but will be corrected on future printings."
I like the product but the documentation and support need some improvement.
Customer Review: ver good do not know if acurate
Summary: 3 Stars
When I received the item I inmediately tried it on several friends. Most of them were shocked to weight more then they thought. Later we guessed it must be the graduation of the scale (about 2 kg more). One women 174 cm tall very slim turned out to have hidden obese muscle mass (1) and we were surprised as she had done for 3 year spinning and had dropped it a year ago.... I wrote about it to tanika but got just an e-email to phone, I just don't live next door and don't have internacional service call with my phone (colombia) and asked them to write, but never heard anything again. So we are left to our own conclusions. One other girl very small 148 cm is now 42 years old has a fat percentage of 18,4 far below and turned out with a metabolic age of 12 the minimum....
Who knows what interpretation we can give it. Deffinitly she does`nt look 12. One male friend 166 cm high turned out to be obese but doesn`t look fat at all. He like just has wide shoulders: so with this measurements I am not sure and there is noone to ask about.
Otherwise it works very well it is easy to handle and has specially great fluctuations during the day in the metabolic age. I start at 42 years the day and end with 37 years the day. That is wonderful.
Customer Review: Encouragement for Your Fitness Routine
Summary: 5 Stars
This product enables me to know how much of my weight is fat AND how much is muscle AND bone AND water. As a woman I obviously want to be sure I have enough bone and now I can see how my various exercises increase my bone weight over time. Also, any weight I have gained in muscle is GOOD weight, so as that increases it is another thing to be encouraged about. Since muscle weighs more than fat, I am not as concerned about my actual weight as much as getting the muscle and bone weights up and the fat weight down. When I hit a weight plateau these small changes keep me motivated since they can change even when my overall weight stays the same. Note that this product is NOT for you if you exercise 10 hours a week at an intense level. This scale would not be accurate for you. The scale gives you a score for your metabolic age (and fitness level), and my more fit husband has a metabolic age of 12 which is clearly silly since he is 48 years old. My metabolic age is a more accurate 43 (I am 49) so you can see the difference that more intense exercise can make as to the accuracy of the scale's measurements. I think the scale is well worth the price and Amazon's price was the best I could find.