Body composition analysis refers to measuring your body composition (muscle, fat and water). Instead of focusing on a single number on your scale, body composition analysis allows you to focus on losing body fat and gaining muscle while retaining the proper amount of water in your specific areas of the body. Body composition analysis is extremely beneficial on your wellness journey. Get your body scan with Elevate Fitness.
Weight loss can be an important method in trying to live a healthier lifestyle. And often we use a bathroom scale to help us track how much weight we’re losing. But many of us who have gone to the scale while trying a new diet or exercise find that the results aren’t always what we are looking for. Perhaps we lose weight, but only temporarily. Or actually we end up gaining weight. Sometimes it feels like nothing is working out the way you expected. That’s because your bathroom scale is misleading.
Your weight is made up muscle, fat and water. The key to effective weight loss (if that’s your goal) is losing excess body fat, not overall body weight. Weight loss is not the same as fat loss. Instead of tracking how heavy your are, use body composition analysis to track how healthy you are instead.
The InBody body scanner accurately measures your body composition in less than 15 seconds and prints out a results sheet that lists out your body composition components, tracking your progress over time. You receive data for key measures like:
Hover over different parts of the Result Sheet to get a brief overview of what each metric means.
Body Composition Analysis displays the weight of Total Body Water (intramuscular water and extracellular water), Dry Lean Mass, and Body Fat Mass. Body weight is the total of these three components.
Muscle Fat Analysis uses bar graphs to provide a comparison between weight, skeletal muscle mass and body fat mass. The lengths of the bar graphs indicate the relationship between the current weight to the average value for that specific segment, based on your height.
Obesity Analysis displays both BMI and Percent Body Fat (PBF). PBF is a more accurate measure of your health because it compares your fat levels to your weight. Elevate Fitness does not focus on BMI even though it is included in the InBody technology.
The Segmental Lean Analysis graph is an effective and informed assessment of lean mass distribution within the five segments of your body. This helps us closely monitor changes and make necessary adjustments.
After a body composition test is taken, results are saved in order to show the changes to your body composition over time. This cumulative graph quickly allows us to see your progress and make dietary-exercise modifications.
Body Fat Mass-Lean Body Mass Control gives us a guideline to adjust diet and exercise in order to attain a healthy percent body fat.
Lean Body Mass is the sum of the Total Body Water and Dry Lean Mass.
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the amount of calories a person needs to keep the body functioning while at rest. A person with more Lean Body Mass would have a higher BMR than a person with less Lean Body Mass.