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Manual Body Composition

Sprk
10 months ago

Wow. Wowwww...
After reading up on how to manual add Body Composition, I notice these questions started from  14 years ago.
Here, Here, and Here. The list is endless. 


If I'm correct on the read-up here:

  • First have to buy a Garmin weight scale product
  • Minimal do a weight check once per month with that scale
  • Then you're ALLOWED to add a manual body composition.

Why force a scale if we all know it just measuring the legs and does an assumption. It's incorrect data.

C'mon.

Are there alternative ways to upload/sync manual body composition data?

  • +1 10 months ago
    Sprk said:
    Are there alternative ways to upload/sync manual body composition data?

    You can import the Body Fat % with a simple CSV file in Garmin Connect Web at https://connect.garmin.com/modern/import-data. 

    This is a sample CSV file:

    Body
Date,Weight,BMI,Fat
"2022-11-03","71.6","22.6","14.4"

    There can be multiple lines of data, but the first 2 header lines appear just once. Use a plain-text editor such as Notepad for creating the file. Do not use any rich-text editors like Word or Wordpad. And avoid Excel.

  • +1 10 months ago

    I've been using this java app from Github which is working well for me. Basically same method as what trux says, except the app spits out a fit file instead of a csv to upload. Upside of this method is that you can't really screw up the formatting like when I used to do the csv and miss a comma or something. Hasn't been updated since 2015, but I guess it doesn't have to since it's just creating a fit file?

    GitHub - akryvtsun/weight2fit: Multi-platform application for generating FIT files from scales data

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to hoges25

    Thank you! This tool indeed makes it easy to fill in the basic weight and body fat %.

  • 0 10 months ago in reply to trux

    That did it! Thank you for guiding me to the import section. I missed that.

    Now that I'm feeding Garmin the data, I see that I still need to maintain my own sheet.
    I simply like to calculate the actual fat in kg and pinned my goal to a date.
    With a little forecast I tend to manage my goal.
    The more I dive in with Garmin, the less I get out from it.
    Wishing they upped the game just a bit more aside of the nice running part.