As someone who is trying to stay as fit and healthy as possible, you probably have various ways to measure your progress. For example, you might weigh yourself, count calories, or keep track of your waist circumference. Those are all great tools to monitor the success of your efforts, but Adventure Fitness Athletic Club can take your fitness analysis to another level.
How? With our InBody 770 body composition and body water analyzer. This machine can give you precise measurements of the muscle, fat tissue, minerals, and water content of your body, providing a much better look at your overall health than traditional methods.
InBody Body Assessments
FREE to members of Adventure Fitness Athletic Club
$25.00 per session for non-members
Ask the front desk at our Thornton gym for assistance
How does the InBody 770 work?
One of the best features of the InBody 770 is its ease of use. While many body composition methods involve being dunked in water or pinched, the InBody 770 only requires you to stand on the device and hold the hand electrodes. It takes just 60 seconds to measure fat mass, muscle mass, and body water levels, producing a comprehensive report when it’s done.
What does the InBody 770 result sheet show?
The InBody 770 prints out two full-page result sheets that offer an extensive analysis of the body’s muscle, fat, and water values. The body water result sheet is uniquely helpful because it can detect and track shifts in fluid distribution in the body that can happen due to aging, obesity, injury, and other conditions.
Here are some examples of what the InBody 770 reports can show:
- Intracellular water — This is the amount of body water held inside the body’s cells.
- Extracellular water — This is the amount of water that exists outside the body’s cells. This measurement is especially important because if it increases, it could be a sign of inflammation caused by overtraining.
- Dry lean mass — Dry lean mass is the weight of the body’s mineral and protein content. Because muscle is made up of protein, an increase in dry lean mass is a sign that the body has gained muscle.
- Body fat mass — This shows the all the fat in the body, including both internal (visceral) fat and surface-level (subcutaneous) fat.
Why is it important to keep track of your body composition?
Now that we understand that “body composition” is a breakdown of the body’s core components — water, protein, minerals, and fat — let’s explore what makes the measurement of body composition important.
The obsession with weight loss
Traditionally, most of our conversations about fitness focus on weight lost and weight gained. However, this fails to consider how two people of the same sex and weight can look totally different from each other. That’s because these two people have a different body composition.
By measuring your body composition, you can learn your body’s own unique makeup and identify places where you can improve your health and wellness.
Fitness goes way beyond BMI
Another popular way to assess a person’s health is to calculate one’s Body Mass Index (BMI). This method is a fairly simple mathematical formula where you multiply your weight in pounds by 703 and divide that result by your height in inches squared. Using this formula, obesity is defined as having a BMI of 30.0 and above. Normal weight is a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9, and underweight is below 18.5.
However, while BMI is often used by health professionals to assess fitness, it can be misleading because it oversimplifies the many factors that go into one’s physical condition. For example, a professional bodybuilder could have the same height, weight, and BMI as a person who never works out, so a high number on the scales doesn’t always mean obesity. Likewise, skinny doesn’t always mean healthy.
Simply put, if you’re focused on losing fat and gaining muscle, neither the scales nor BMI can tell you how much of your weight loss is fat loss — but a body composition test can.
Eliminate the guesswork with an InBody 770 test at AFAC
Get a regular snapshot of your health and reach your fitness goals from the inside out with the help of InBody testing at Adventure Fitness Athletic Club. As a member of AFAC, you can take advantage of this testing anytime by asking for assistance at our front desk. Non-members can get tested for $25.00 per session.
For more information, contact our club. You can also call Susan at 720-849-0245 or email her at susan@adventurefitness.club.
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