Hi guys. Welcome back to my channel. In this week's video I'm going to give you a quick
review of the FitTrack Dara BMI smart scale. I'm going to give you my trainers, honest review,
whether you want this in your life to track your progress and your weight loss journey.
Going to unbox this bad boy for you, show you how to link it with the FitTrack health app in your
phone. And show you the 17 different metrics that this scale can tell you about your body versus
a regular scale and fully explain what each of those 17 metrics are and whether or not you need
to know these on your fitness or fat loss journey. If you're someone who's on a weight loss journey
and you are a slave to the scale right now and you are only using the scale to track your progress,
I want you to watch this video all the way to the end and I'm going to give you my honest, personal
review as to whether I think something like this is going to help you [inaudible 00:00:47] and
if it's something you should add to your toolbox. I don't want to keep you guys too long. I'm going
to keep this video short and sweet, right to the point. I'm going to show you how this scale works
in just one second. But if you're new here, make sure you subscribe to my channel and hit that bell
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Let me show you how this scale works. And if you guys are interested after watching this video and
you want to know where to get yourself one, I'll leave the link in the description below. I've also
got a 20% off coupon code. So check for that code in the description below, you can get yourself one
of these smart scales at 20% off. Just enter the code at checkout and you're good to go.
Okay. I'm going to start by showing you exactly how the app works and how it syncs to the scale
and then I'll go through all the 17 different body metrics that this scale tells you and how
it works. So let's open our FitTrack health app. And as you can see, I've already been tracking my
weight and my body fat percentage. And there's a lot of other things you can track in here. So
basically if you have yet to sync your scale, you just have to hit the top right corner there where
it says sync devices, the Bluetooth will pick it up and it's super easy to sync your scale.
Once you have your scale synced you can then just step on and it's going to
track your reading. So I just got on my scale, it weighed me at 145.9 pounds.
And you can click here. You can click show more just for a quick preview
of your body fat percentage, your muscle mass, your fat mass, just subcutaneous fat,
your BMI and your body water. I will go through all of those in just a second. So if you want
to see a more in depth breakdown of all those 17 metrics you can click the little wheel here
and it's going to break it all down for you. As you can see, my weight was 145.9,
my BMI is 23, body fat percentage is 22%. You can hit the dropdown here,
I'm in standard, it'll tell you whether your body fat percentage is high or low. Again,
I'll go through all these metrics in just a second, but you can see
all of these numbers you get just from that scale. The cool thing from here, you can go to progress
and then you can hit your progress from days with recording. I'm going to go from... the
last time I recorded was Friday to Monday, and I can hit apply, then it shows you your progress.
I was actually 147 pounds, I'm down 1.1 pounds over the week weekend. That's surprising
for a weekend. My BMI is down, my body fat percentage is down, my fat mass is down,
my muscle rate is up. This could have something... I did a heavy strength session this morning.
This is where it shows you body water is up, your BMR changes. It tells you all of these things,
but not so much from Friday to Monday. I wouldn't recommend tracking your progress, but this is on
a weekly or a monthly basis. So instead of just looking at this first metric here, your weight,
you can see maybe if your weight didn't move, but your body fat percentage went down.
That means you've probably built some muscle mass and you decreased body fat,
but the scale number is just not telling you that. So this is where having a scale like this,
with all of these metrics will help you on your progress and see your progress.
Being a personal trainer, I am always pushing people to track their progress in other ways
than just the scale. Anyone who follows me on any form of social media knows that
I hate the scale. I don't know why people want to get on that scale every morning and let it
ruin their day. If they feel good and they put on their clothes and their clothes felt good
and then they get on the scale and maybe the number either didn't move or it's up a pound,
they literally let that destroy their day. So having a scale like this and seeing different
kind of metrics will help you if that's you, if you're someone who is literally just chasing a
number on the scale. It's fine, you are not alone and that's why they create products like this.
Honest, there are more specific ways of tracking your body fat percentage, such as DEXA scans or
underwater weighing. But for the average person just looking for a more in depth look at what is
happening in their fat loss journey. If you're strength training you want to know if you're
building muscle, and this is a great way to see. You will still see this number go down. Maybe not
100% accurate, but I have had DEXA scans done in the past and this 22% is very close to my body
fat percentage that I had in the DEXA scan. So I would say this is a great way to have access
to your body fat percentage on a regular basis. Then we have muscle rates. Look at me, I'm in
the high. I'm 48.2% muscle. It's your muscle mass percentage, which represents the proportion of the
muscle mass in your body's composition. So it's factoring muscle mass, your weight, your height
and your overall strength in physical health. So there you go. Things are looking good
there for me. Then we've got body water. I'm at standard. You could take this or leave it. You
want to drink lots of water anyway, for standard health purposes. Whether you're dieting or not,
drinking lots of water has so many health benefits that I would say as long as you're
in the standard here... It's expressed as a percentage of your body's composition. So also
it's saying in a vital indicator of your overall health. I would say just drink water, as long as
you're in the standard I think you're good to go. Then we have your bone mass. So there you go, my
bone mask is high. It's basically showing you how much bone mass you have. This could help prevent
osteoporosis. And strength training does help build bone mass, especially in women. As we age
it's very common that bone mass tends to decrease. And men as well, as they age, but more common
in women. So seeing this number and knowing if you're in a healthy range is always good to know.
BMR, this is how many calories your body burns if you just laid in bed all day. I'm at 1,418
calories, that's how many calories my body will burn basically if I literally laid in bed all day,
which will help you see how many calories you should actually be eating in a day to properly
fuel your body. This BMR number can change as you progress on your fitness and fat loss journey.
AKA, if you build some muscle, if you become more active your BMR will increase as well,
which is a good sign of progress. Then we have your protein rate. Looks
like my protein is low. I don't know how accurate this is. Again, this isn't something that I would
say is 100% accurate or really that important in measuring your progress. But it's always a good
number to know. Your metabolic age, it's basically comparing your BMR against the BMR of individuals
in your age range. It says mine is 37, I'm actually 38. So there you go, I'm one year younger
than I actually am. That's awesome, I'll take it. Your visceral fat. This is the fat that surrounds
your vital organs in your abdomen. And a high level of visceral fat indicates a likelihood
of health related factors occurring. My visceral fat index is low,, I'm happy with
that and this is a good thing. So again, this is something that you will also see decrease as you
progress in your fitness and fat loss journey that the scale might actually not tell you.
Subcutaneous fat. The subcutaneous fat indicates the fat that is stored in the
outer layer of your skin. Some people store more fat in their stomach, in their bum, in their legs,
in their back, wherever you tend to store more fat. Again, this is another range of your body
fat. I am in the standard, I'm happy with that. Another number that you will see decrease on your
journey as you go. And a regular scale is just not the going to tell you this kind of stuff,
and this is what matters. This is your overall health and this is what matters.
So we have our standard weight. I don't know about all this. I personally, again,
being someone who hates literally just seeking a number on the scale and even just knowing
my body type right now and that I'm currently 145 pounds, I have no desire to be 132 pounds.
So again, you could take this or leave it. Weight control. This is basically telling me that to get
to my standard weight I need to lose 13.6 pounds. Again, take it or leave. It depends where you are
on your fat loss journey. I have no desire to lose any weight right now. I'm just trying to maintain
where I'm at, so I'm going to ignore that. And then we have fat mass. It's using my
body fat percentage to show the overall weight of adipose tissue in my body. Adipose tissue means
fat tissue. Apparently I'm in the high range. Apparently I have high body fat percentage,
and this is something maybe if I train a little bit harder I can get this down.
Weight without fat. So without my body fat I weigh 108 pounds. Again, this is something you will see
as your body fat decreases on your journey, you will see this number change and you will
be able to track the progress on this as well. And my muscle mass. I'm in the high range, I have
66.6 pounds of muscle mass. So it's calculating my total muscle weight, including my skeletal,
my cardiac, and my smooth muscle, all of which are important for optimal health and strength.
I'm in the high range, I'm happy with that. And my protein mass,
again, seems to be low. This is the total amount of protein to my body, again, take it or leave it.
Those are the 17 things that you will see after you hop on this scale. Again, for me,
most important, you want to look at body fat percentage, your muscle rate, your bone mass,
your BMR number. Metabolic age is pretty cool to see, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat. These
are all numbers that a regular scale will not tell you but help you really feel better about
your fat loss journey if you get on that scale and your weight doesn't move, but you might see
some changes in these other numbers and you'll be like, wow, something really is happening.
There you go guys. That's the breakdown of the FitTrack Dara scale. All of those metrics
literally from getting on it for five seconds and right away sync to your phone, which is
pretty cool. As someone who dictates to all of their clients, especially females, and all over
her social media that you are more than a number on your scale and do not use that number on the
scale to dictate your progress, how you feel about yourself or anything like that. A scale like this
is going to tell you so much more about your body, what's happening in your body with your training.
If that number on the scale isn't moving you could be gaining muscle mass, you could be decreasing
your visceral fat, which in the end is going to improve your overall health. Decrease your risk
of getting some health related conditions that you have control over right now. And I'll leave
a link below to the FitTrack website where you can get yourself one of the FitTrack Dara scales,
as well as a 20% off coupon code you can use right on their website. I'll also leave the
Amazon link. If you prefer to buy from Amazon, I'll leave the link there to make your life easy.
Be sure to check out some of the other videos on my channel, learning all about calorie deficit,
fat loss, strength training versus cardio. I have something for everyone, as well as
full length follow along workouts for home to help you on your fitness and fat loss journey. Again,
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watching guys. I hope this video helped you out a lot and I'll see you in the next one.