In this box is the Garmin Smart Scale
It arrived today and I'm very excited
I bought it for my CHIZELD program which starts up next week
and I am very excited
because it's going to make body composition testing much easier for me
so I've been doing body composition testing forever and I use callipers so
I'm pinching my clients to pieces also because pinching and using the
callipers is time-consuming I used to do the body comp at the beginning of the
program and then at the end and now we're gonna do it on a weekly basis so
this is fabulous because clients will be able to watch their progress every week
to see where they're going and so they're not gonna just know like from the
beginning and then at the end which is a three-month gap between
the tests also when they step on the scale the scale will recognize them and
it will automatically upload to their phone so everybody's going to have their
own account which is gonna be awesome because then they can analyze their data
at home and so forth so I'm excited about this so I just before I open up
the box I just want to say one little thing and I'm gonna keep it short
because I can rant about this forever people have got to stop chasing the
weight on the scale okay if you're trying to lose weight it is better for
you to focus on losing your body fat not your overall weight of your body but
body fat percent body fat percent is very important it is ultimately the
determinator of your health and where it's going because you can be skinny and
still have body fat, you can look skinny and not weigh a whole lot on the scale but still
have a high body fat percent you can also be bigger and you can have a low
body fat percent so...
we need to move away from this scale obsession weight on the scale ohh I wanna
weigh 110 pounds oh I wanna weigh 56 lbs
like no, okay
so you need to move away from that obsession with the number on the scale
and you need to start concentrating on your body fat percent so people come to
me and they're like I want this gone and I want this gone and I want
this gone so what you need to do is have a proper diet and exercise to help that
go away not starving yourself and taking weight loss supplements that make you
dehydrated and shit and piss yourself until the weight moves down
on the scale, the numbers on the scale go down you don't want to step
on the scale and watch that number go down because you're dehydrated you want
to step on the scale and see that number go down because you're actually losing
fat mass so when you start concentrating on losing fat mass and pay your
attention to your body fat percent you will be much more happier because now
you're gonna start to get ripped okay now you're going to start to define your
body you already have a six-pack you already have abs you already have biceps
triceps quads yes you can tone that up and make it nice and
defined and become stronger through weightlifting and exercise but everybody
already has this stuff and you can get more cut and ripped looking if you would
concentrate on decreasing body fat percent instead of decreasing the number
on the scale like I said dehydration and then the
other thing is is when you have a bad diet and you're doing crash diets and
you're not feeding yourself enough your body your metabolism will slow down you
won't burn fat that well okay not you'll still burn fat but you won't burn it
that well you won't output that much energy because your body is trying
to conserve energy because it thinks it's starving to death and then if
you're really under-eating you're doing a very very strict caloric
restriction diet your body may use precious fat free mass so muscle okay to
help provide the energy your body needs in order to get through the day and that
you don't want okay so this is a bigger topic I could talk so much more on this
I'm not going to we're going to get to unveiling this Garmin smart scale
let's see sorry for the big rant well not really I'm sorry just drives me nuts
okay education is the best best thing you could do for weight loss getting
educated, read medical journals, scientific information
I just spill it out because I'm like that it's packed really well with cushiony plastic
and yeah Garmin index smart scale so this is what
it looks like so far..... weight
water weight
oh god I need my glasses hold on a second
okay so we have weight, body mass index BMI body fat percentage body water
muscle mass and bone mass so this is what this scale does...it does your
weight obviously body mass index body fat percent body water percent muscle
mass and bone mass I am very very excited about this so I used this with
an iPhone app so the iPhone phone app is called Garmin Connect so I download that
and then I create an account and then when I step on this scale it should
once I program everything it should recognize me and then tell me my metrics
also I use the Fenix 5s as my activity tracker so I'm a huge Garmin fan I like
their products and all of this data is going to come together on the Garmin
Connect and then I also import all that data into TrainingPeaks so I can
analyze it even further I am a data nerd I love data so I do use all the data I
will use all the data but when I'm training my clients I need data and
it helps me make decisions it helps me show what's really happening
and then I can explain that to my clients and
educate them and show them as well and its objective so it's not based on how
we feel and all that kind of stuff it's objective data so it's it's factual
it's there it's what it is and then
we can see ya know what we need to do to change and habits that maybe we need
to develop or or switch things up or try something new and then we can see what
happens and data is great
it has a manual and then packaged nicely okay you
could get black or white I ordered black and this is what it looks like so I
haven't used it yet obviously in the box batteries and then it also has the
little legs for carpet as well I now need to use this and then do another
video on what I think of it so I just wanted to tell you about what I've got
for the program and what I'm going to be using and now I need to test the product
and I'll do another review later on it anyway that's it thanks for watching if
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smart scale let me know what you think about it in the comments below I would
love to hear what you have to say alright folks that's it for now see you later