Especially over the past year, I can’t ignore the fact that my body is getting older. This may sound arbitrary, even like some cliché sales pitch. I understand the reserved knee-jerk reaction when others begin to rant about how a particular product can start creating a healthier lifestyle, and certainly it wasn’t just the Withings Body Scan scale that made me realize something I already knew, or create motivation out of thin air.
The thing is, my girlfriend Klara has wanted to try one for a long time. She has suffered from health anxiety in the past and has always been very cautious about any health issues, and rightly so. So when Withings offered me the chance to borrow one, we took our time and went through the different features to make sure she wouldn’t suddenly get what today’s young people call “TMI” (I’m only 31) and unpleasant. dosage.
What happened was especially surprising to me because after those carefree college years where I never really took care of myself, like in high school I felt like I was basically made of rubber and magic and could do anything without a care in the world. Struggling to recover from it all. But it’s not true, it’s never been true, I’ve known it for a long time, but the lack of belief, the lack of willpower to do something about it, here Body Scan became a catalyst that I can honestly say, hand in hand, is changing me health – I think.
Body Scan is £350 scale. We cannot escape this. Regardless, this is a ridiculous price for a scale, and let me quickly state that this is as much a review of the ecosystem that exists around Body Scan as it is a review of the scale itself, which you can get through their Body Smart Access the ecosystem for around £90.
However, if you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, Body Scan also has some very unique and advanced features. The Body Scan consists of four central sensors that determine your BMI, so-called neurological health and heart rate with precise calculations down to 50 grams. Additionally, there is a pole with a string in front of it, and by picking it up and making contact between a specific point on your palm and the metal plate on this pole, you create a loop that allows what Withings calls Multifrequency Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (or BIA). This means sending a small electric charge through your body to map the specific composition of various parts of your body, such as water, fat and muscle percentage.
The idea is that you can go on Body Scan every day, weigh yourself, measure your heart rate and neurological health, and then the results are automatically programmed into your app, which can tell you more about how you’re feeling and how you’re feeling over time. Improve your health over time. Most importantly, you should do a segment weigh-in or EKG whenever you feel like it.
While Withings isn’t claiming any world firsts here, many of these features, which were traditionally things you had to visit a specialist for, are now more easily accessible via gadgets you can buy for your home, but exactly what are these features? Usefulness is like determining how useful 5x optical zoom is in a smartphone camera. For some people? Yes, without a doubt. Suitable for everyone? maybe not. But it’s also a boring answer.
So, with that, I can say that with the weight loss and gradual increase in what Withings calls “thigh muscle groups” in their app – as I’ve been running more seriously and more consistently – it’s been a very Great motivation, so much so that I always weigh myself in the morning and get a tip or two from Withings every once in a while.
However, the app does have issues worth mentioning. First, it could be useful if the information it provided was more customized and user-friendly, since you often have to dig out critical background information if your neurological health is at the upper end of “good.” Notifications are generally tailor-made for the smart watch crowd, I mean you’re texted with meaningless badges and silly slaps on the back congratulating you for stepping on the scale two mornings in a row – great job!
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It’s hard to recommend the Body Scan as a smart scale unless you specifically know that segmented weighing and EKG analysis will make you happy. Body Smart is probably a better place to start, but Withings has something here, something that got me started, and for that I’m really grateful.
