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3020841 over 3 years ago

I'm 48 yo. As a physician I have access to dexa and Tanita segmental BF scale MC-780MA (>6000 U$D).

I work out 6 times a week (combined aerobic/strength training) with average steady calories consumption of 1000-1100 kcal per training (according to my garmin 6x pro watch), have a clean diet

I did measurements 10 days ago. BF% on dexa is 20, on Tanita 20 and Garmin 31%.

I have same problems. There is absolutely something wrong with this scale BF% calculation.

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C.sco over 3 years ago +1

We know. Garmin says they're working on it, but it's been 5 months since the last software update so apparently it just isn't a very high priority.

The problem is that age is not calculated…

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0 C.sco over 3 years ago

We know. Garmin says they're working on it, but it's been 5 months since the last software update so apparently it just isn't a very high priority.

The problem is that age is not calculated into their algorithm correctly - this has been proven many times by people who have simply reduced their age by 20-50 years, and it makes the BF% calculation work correctly. Should be as simple as changing one line of code, but for some reason it's taking an extremely long time to happen.

0 DFXDFX over 3 years ago

You can add yourself to the open case here: forums.garmin.com/.../body-fat-on-index-s2-smart-scale-seems-inaccurate