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When can we enter fat percentage in Garmin Connect?

Hi Garmin and others :-)

I can see that this issue has been up before, but no real answer yet.

I just bought my 955 and honestly I was shocked to find out, that Garmin uses BMI to calculate fitness age. I mean how can such a big and serious player in this industry use BMI?

How difficult is it to let people enter their fat percentage and use that.........not very in my 20+ years of experience with software development. I mean lots of people have access to way better/more precise equipment than a garmin index s2 scale, so let us use the more precise figures.

You even explain that fitness age is calculated, based on fat percentage or BMI. So let me enter the fat percentage PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

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francis.yates over 2 years ago in reply to Grumpy Old Man +1 suggested

Windows based app - https://github.com/akryvtsun/weight2fit

You can enter details and it creates a FIT file which can then be imported to Garmin Connect

I have a Tanita scale and use this to get my information…

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0 PallMe over 2 years ago

I already can according to the help, because it is either using body fat OR weight+height. But Garmins modus operandi is to have features locked to hardware, so I guess you need a Garmin Smart Scale to unlock it and get it into the system.

0 Grumpy Old Man over 2 years ago

I'm not quite sue what you mean. English is not my native language.

Are you saying I need a Garmin scale which is far from accurate, for Garmin to use my fat percentage OR are you saying I need to buy their scale to be able to manually enter my fat percent?

0 thetrickstergib over 2 years ago in reply to Grumpy Old Man

There is a andriod /ios app which I believe send fat % to garmin ('Weight Logger')

0 PallMe over 2 years ago in reply to Grumpy Old Man

It is not mine either.

If you press the question mark next to weight, you can read that a Garmin Index Smart Scale can deliever more than just weight, including bodyfat. https://connect.garmin.com/modern/weight?date=2022-08-26

If you read the article about fitness age and go to the paragraf about missing data, it list "Body fat percentage, or height and weight"

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=CM1YJmMrrNAbEpM9PapJ07&productID=73207&searchQuery=v%C3%A6gt&tab=topics

So I guess Garmin wants to sell you this one, before taking bodyfat into account. But you better do some more digging, before pulling the trigger.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/679362

0 Grumpy Old Man over 2 years ago in reply to PallMe

Thanks for info, but that's just stupid if I need to buy a scale (that I don't want) to use a completely wrong fat percentage !!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

0 Grumpy Old Man over 2 years ago in reply to thetrickstergib

Yeah, but that app wants access to way too much info on my phone, which it doesn't need :-) I just want to be able to enter fat percentage, just as height and weight. Nothing complex....it's super simple :-)

0 francis.yates over 2 years ago in reply to Grumpy Old Man

Windows based app - https://github.com/akryvtsun/weight2fit

You can enter details and it creates a FIT file which can then be imported to Garmin Connect

I have a Tanita scale and use this to get my information into garmin connect