Accu Measure Fitness 3000 Personal Body Fat Tester

Good precision which provides repeatable results. That’s all I needed to track the progress of my training / nutrition week by week.The measuring slide makes it possible for you to take measurements on your own without the help of another person (apart from the subscapular site of course). You simply slide it to the right and as you feel the click you can release the pressure and just read the result.The click felt during the measurement allows for the same amount of force being applied every single time hence removing the human judgement on how much to squeeze the device.As the instructions only tells you to measure the suprailiac site (above the hip bone) and does not take in consideration other important sites like triceps, abdomen, leg, chest, etc.. you could end up having wrong conclusions on how your body is changing in general. You can easily overcome this problem by using any of the body fat calculators available online, where you will find 3, 4 and 7 site measurements calculators. The more sites the more accurate your body fat calculation will be.Just as an example, in my case the difference between suprailiac only and the 4 sites method, the measurements varied by around 5% less for the multi-measurement one as for most people the first place to gain or perhaps the hardest to lose is around the waist even if you have a slim body.For the measurement itself, there is not much difference between this and the Fat Track digital one which I also owned in the past. The digital having the advantage of calculating the final value for you at the end of the last site measurement without any charts but at a much greater extra cost and still limited to the number of sites that it has been designed for (3 for the standard digital caliper).In the end of the day the final number is the least important for me, but rather how much the body fat is changing across different places of the body over time.

I'm glad I took the advice of other reviewers of fat calipers. This one is comfortable and easy to use on oneself, which is unusual for calipers. Just as easy to do on other people, and it has an easy to understand chart inside to interpret the results. The clicker is really useful- a very simple but clever design. I can see it might wear out but only after a lot of use.The bone issue with this is that it's no good for people with low body fat. The finest measurement you can really tell is half a mm. It goes to 1mm so it you have clients with <5% body fat then you probably need a BIA with athletic setting I believe. Good for the price, and so much better than scales for measuring progress and health. I wish more people used these instead of getting obsessed with scales. Body fat matters to health- not body weight.

I had initial fears of this item being too flimsy for use, but I took the risk due to their low(ish) price. When they arrived I thought they felt surprisingly solid, it's made from a hard plastic and is structured in a way that completely reduces flexing when used properly. (which is more than I can say for other items I've tried)The idea of these calipers isn't to press down as hard as you can, which is what most people do hoping to get a smaller number. It has a clicking mechanism that lets you know when to stop pushing, which is highly useful if you're heavy handed. It also has a very useful leaflet with it which includes bodyfat charts and averages, as well as easy to follow instructions of how to use it.I wouldn't pay too much attention to the numbers it gives you, but it's still a pretty accurate way of tracking your % loss. At the end of the day if you want a definite reading it's best to see your doctor.

It's pretty simple to use and cheap. Relatively accurate for when you're going from something like 20 % body fat to like 10 % perhaps but clearly as you get slimmer and leaner, it's much less accurate but it's a nice handy tool none the less. I got it for £5 when it was on sale, wouldn't buy it for £20 or whatever the initial asking price was though.

Really happy with this. Came with clear instructions and is very simple to use.It may not be 100% accurate but nothing is that doesn’t cost the earth. It actually doesn’t matter, what it is really useful for is body transformers to measure progress. The key thing you want then is ease and cost of use, and consistency between results. As long as you are using the same method to measure, you can track progress whether that method is totally accurate or not.It is a little flimsy and will probably break at some point but so what, it’s cheap enough to buy another one when that day arrives.

I'm a fan of Tom Venuto's 'Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle' - it's helped me lose over 20 kilos of body fat.He stresses the need to measure body composition, not weight, so I've been looking for a method that's accurate and affordable.Here's what I've tried and what body fat % they give me.15.2% Fit Quest scales with foot and hand sensors - at my gym18.9% Weight Watchers scales with foot sensors21.3% personal trainer using caliphers, three upper body skin folds23.6% Accumeasure skin fold25% Davi scales with foot and hand sensors - at my gym but also, I think, in Boots the ChemistConclusion? I don't know how you would work out which of these is accurate - so I'm going to stick with my cheap Weight Watcher scales and just monitor trends without necessarily being confident in the fat %. I enter weight and fat% into MyNetDiary which then gives me graphs - of course, you use a spreadsheet.Just being aware of changes in my appearance is also helpful - as the fat burns I can see creases then muscle appearing.The Accumeasure is a bit fiddly and you end up with a range rather than a specific percentage so I wouldn't really recommend.