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That Worked
Apr. 9th, 2023 01:36 pmI knocked five percent off my body fat in just 24 hours with this one trick!
LOL I changed my age in the Garmin app. I made myself four years younger, and the scale suddenly says my body fat is significantly lower, my body water is up, muscle mass is up ... what a bunch of bullshit. :D
I came across this idea on Reddit. Someone tried changing his age, both up and down, and within a few minutes got vastly different readings. Fox tried it and got the same kind of results. There have been a few people saying that Garmin doesn't really "measure" you, but uses the height and birth date you entered when you set up, your recorded weight, and then spits out the rest based on population averages. So probably when I went from 45 years old to 46 is when I entered a different set of algorithms and started having this frustration with my BF% not changing.
I've been saying to myself that this measurement is baloney for a long time, but seeing that I can literally just game the system this easily really has me ready to completely disregard the thing. At least for Fox it's consistently inconsistent, so he can actually track his body composition up or down. In my case, it simply wouldn't change no matter what my weight did, no matter how much water I drank, or anything else.
Fox thinks he knows a way that he can stop it displaying the data if I want, but I don't care THAT much. I'll probably go back to my previous method, which was a bi-weekly combination of the US Army tape measure test and body fat calipers, one of which skews high, the other skews low, and my actual number likely lies in the middle. I remember it being pretty consistent, and if I line up my readings with one of those visual body fat charts it's good enough.
LOL I changed my age in the Garmin app. I made myself four years younger, and the scale suddenly says my body fat is significantly lower, my body water is up, muscle mass is up ... what a bunch of bullshit. :D
I came across this idea on Reddit. Someone tried changing his age, both up and down, and within a few minutes got vastly different readings. Fox tried it and got the same kind of results. There have been a few people saying that Garmin doesn't really "measure" you, but uses the height and birth date you entered when you set up, your recorded weight, and then spits out the rest based on population averages. So probably when I went from 45 years old to 46 is when I entered a different set of algorithms and started having this frustration with my BF% not changing.
I've been saying to myself that this measurement is baloney for a long time, but seeing that I can literally just game the system this easily really has me ready to completely disregard the thing. At least for Fox it's consistently inconsistent, so he can actually track his body composition up or down. In my case, it simply wouldn't change no matter what my weight did, no matter how much water I drank, or anything else.
Fox thinks he knows a way that he can stop it displaying the data if I want, but I don't care THAT much. I'll probably go back to my previous method, which was a bi-weekly combination of the US Army tape measure test and body fat calipers, one of which skews high, the other skews low, and my actual number likely lies in the middle. I remember it being pretty consistent, and if I line up my readings with one of those visual body fat charts it's good enough.
