Fix body fat % by making yourself 5" taller

This is wonderful, so we can conclude that thanks to a scale that works incorrectly, humanity in 2021 grew by an average of 5", this is all going crazy, is it all derived from Covid!?!?!?

Ah yes... I'm not over-weight, I'm under-tall!  My scale told me so! ;)

I did the same (added 15cm height) and the scale dropped from 19% to 10% which  close to reality. I am approx 11% so I will tweak the height slight lower. This is not a good solution though.

be careful, next your vo2max goes crazy! 

I suppose I should expect something else could "break" :-D  I have many garmin devices which could be affected...... lets see...

I agree,  it's a horrible solution,  but haven't found a better one.

If you know it's off by 8%, just subtract 8% (in your head) whenever you do a weigh-in.

Also not a great solution... but better than screwing around with a setting that will likely impact all of your other metrics.

You're correct!  My Inbody shows me at 12% BF, but the S2 says I'm 22%.  I added 6" and now the S2 reads 11%.  Thanks for the advice, Garmin can you please fix the algorithm?

kc5wmm said:

Garmin can you please fix the algorithm?

They've abandoned this product. There hasn't been any software update for it in over 7 months. What should be a 5 minute job to fix, is for some reason just not happening, and at this point I don't think it ever is. Kind of silly they're willing to throw this whole product line away just because of a typo in their bodyfat algorithm they don't want to find and fix.