Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
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Customer Reviews of Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
Customer Review: Great looking scale with plenty of functions
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a geek and I like all geekly stuff, at least initially. Even though I am only an average exerciser, I do have all sorts of gadgets telling me that "you are an average exerciser". This scale adds to my gadget collection well. I had previously used Tanita scales before and find their products consistent. If you use these types of monitors regularly, you should be much more concerned with consistency. If you are looking for one-time measurement, the variation of body composition throughout the day will skew the results depending on the time of measurement; but such is the limitation of this technology. However, if you measure daily over a period of time, you can really see the trend and correlate with your exercise levels, eating habbits, etc.
Which brings to my only complaint why this product did not receive a 5 rating. Tanita could had easily increase the cost of memory of this unit by a penny and enable trending. I don't write down my daily measurements so I can only go off memory what my previous results were. If trending is part of this machine, I would had given it a 5.
Customer Review: I can't believe how accurate this scale is. Very Happy!
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this scale because it was highly rated as being accurate, on sale (39.41) and had free shipping. I was only interested in being able to get an accurate weight reading. All the other features were just icing on the cake.
I'm very impressed with the accuracy of this scale. It will even weigh things down to less than one pound with amazing acuracy (within two tenths). I have weighed everything I could find around the house that is sold by weight and it is dead on. It makes a great scale to weigh packages for shipping.
I would have given it a five star rating but I have not used the body composition features very much and don't know if they work as advertised or not. They are nice to have available. Also a larger button to turn it on would have been nice as all the buttons are a bit small to operate with your toe, but it is possible to do so. Otherwise you have to bend over and use your fingers to turn it on and I find that very inconvenient.
I was looking for a highly accurate bathroom scale and that is exactly what I received. I am very happy.
Customer Review: Very Good Scale
Summary: 4 Stars
The weight seems to be very accurate. The scale looks great. It has a lot of other measurements/features that are nice. You enter your age, height, gender, and activity level. The activity level is defined in the owner's manaul-- 1 is sedentary, 2 is moderate activity of lower intensity workout and 3 is athlete/active. They define athlete as someone who excerices 10 hours per week and has a resting heart rate of 60 bpm or less. I wish they had a broader spectrum of selection. I would say that I am a 2.75 if it were a continuous scale. The problem is you have to select, in my case, 2 or 3. I select 2 and I get a 18.4% body fat. I select 3 and I am at 11.4%. I think I am much closer to 11.4%-- probaly 13% or so. I suppose I could do some linear interpolation, but that is a pain. It is very important to compare the numbers from the same time of day (I do it after I wake up, relieve myself and drink a glass of water). In the end it is all relative, so if you compare apples to apples you should get solid feedback on your diet/excercise efforts.Customer Review: Provides Low Accuracy Measurements
Summary: 1 Stars
Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
The accuracy of fat percentages and other metrics that are provided (except weight)on this scale should be looked upon as rough estimates only. The algorithms to provide the various read outs uses not only the bioimpedence data but also age and level of activity that the user enters. Case in point, I input my correct age of 55 and got a fat percentage of 18.9 %. Stepped off the scale , changed my age to 35 years (without changing other input parameters) and got a body fat read out of 16.5%. A 2.5 % difference. The measured muscle mass, bone and water percentage also changed significantly.
The scale can be useful if following large changes in body composition where the precision of the numbers is not that critical. However, if you need to measure fat percentages with an accuracy of lets say, +/- 1% or so, you will need to look elsewhere.
Customer Review: Does all it says
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I bought the Tanita scale as part of our weight loss plan, thinking that the scale's initial cost and user information would provide added incentives to keep at it. It has helped.
More important, once programmed with basic personal data, the scale works quite well and is easy to read and understand. Programming and data interpretation do require paying brief attention to the instructions, so if you want something that requires no instruction, look elsewhere.
We have not tested its accuracy against another source, but that is less important to us than its being consistent with itself over time. We do notice that it will sometimes read slightly differently, by perhaps one or two tenths of a pound, when we do repeat weighings at the same time. Most of the time, though it gives the same reading.
It's very modern and attractive, well-built and requires a hard surface (as do most scales) and batteries. If the electronics hold up, it should give many years of service.