This discussion has been locked.

You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Fix body fat % by making yourself 5" taller

Since garmin seems to be in denial and not providing a solution, I've noticed if I add 5" to my height in the device user settings, my BF% is closer to what is accurate. My activity level is set to 10 as well.

Top Replies

9407504 over 4 years ago +1

Ah yes... I'm not over-weight, I'm under-tall! My scale told me so! ;)
kc5wmm over 4 years ago +1

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?
C.sco over 4 years ago in reply to kc5wmm +1

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…

All Replies

0 Samora over 4 years ago

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!?!?!?

0 9407504 over 4 years ago

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

0 GeorgeMakrypoulias over 4 years ago

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.

0 Samora over 4 years ago in reply to 9407504

0 f|33tStA over 4 years ago in reply to GeorgeMakrypoulias

be careful, next your vo2max goes crazy!

0 GeorgeMakrypoulias over 4 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

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

0 davidnicholasharris over 4 years ago in reply to GeorgeMakrypoulias

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

0 C.sco over 4 years ago in reply to davidnicholasharris

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.

0 kc5wmm over 4 years ago

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?

0 C.sco over 4 years ago in reply to kc5wmm

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.