Accu Measure Fitness 3000 Personal Body Fat Tester

Good precision which provides repeatable results. That’s all I needed to track the progress of my training / nutrition week by week.The measuring slide makes it possible for you to take measurements on your own without the help of another person (apart from the subscapular site of course). You simply slide it to the right and as you feel the click you can release the pressure and just read the result.The click felt during the measurement allows for the same amount of force being applied every single time hence removing the human judgement on how much to squeeze the device.As the instructions only tells you to measure the suprailiac site (above the hip bone) and does not take in consideration other important sites like triceps, abdomen, leg, chest, etc.. you could end up having wrong conclusions on how your body is changing in general. You can easily overcome this problem by using any of the body fat calculators available online, where you will find 3, 4 and 7 site measurements calculators. The more sites the more accurate your body fat calculation will be.Just as an example, in my case the difference between suprailiac only and the 4 sites method, the measurements varied by around 5% less for the multi-measurement one as for most people the first place to gain or perhaps the hardest to lose is around the waist even if you have a slim body.For the measurement itself, there is not much difference between this and the Fat Track digital one which I also owned in the past. The digital having the advantage of calculating the final value for you at the end of the last site measurement without any charts but at a much greater extra cost and still limited to the number of sites that it has been designed for (3 for the standard digital caliper).In the end of the day the final number is the least important for me, but rather how much the body fat is changing across different places of the body over time.

The unique selling proposition of this unit is the click mechanism which, in theory, makes it easy to take one-time measurements. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work like that.It is made of cheap plastic, the click mechanism is extremely uncertain, you often have to watch it at the same time. Additionally the instructions for the measurement site are misleading as the diagrams show a horizontal stomach measurement as opposed to the diagonal pinch as specified for the suprailiac skinfold site as is specified by this product (the product photos of this technique don't match the product diagrams).If you google the term "suprailiac skinfold site" you can compare the accucheck instructions (they do come up)with everyone else's instructions.I found doing the following fairly foolproof with these:1. Take a diagonal pinch just above the front forward protrusion of the hip bone.2. Let go and re-take three times.3. Use the middle/average reading as your final reading.Using a instructed gave me readings that varied so wildly that the product was useless otherwise. I'll use for a week and if not happy return to Amazon.

It seems this device has a mixed bag of reviews here, I took a chance and believe 4 stars is a fair rating.It's not going to give you a reading as accurate as getting a full physical examination but I haven't seen one anywhere near this price range that will.In terms of actual accuracy this does depend on your technique, which is easy to pick up, if you have doubts about the reading that it is giving you simply take multiple readings and work the average out. It comes with a chart which you must compare your reading against to get a rough estimate of your BF%, these are accurate within 1%(approx) so the bottom line is if your looking for precision accuracy your not going to find it here, however if you do come across a device that will actually give you a perfect reading for your body and isn't your physician then let me know!As the title of this review states it does what you expect, and can be used to track changes in your BF%, the only niggle I have with the device is that at first the way it clips together is a little tricky but you pick this up with repeated use.

I bought these callipers after having returned an expensive set of Tanita body-composition scales. (Please see my review on the RD-901.) Callipers are not presented as being the most accurate means of measuring body fat, but are much less expensive than hydrostatic weighing or a DEXA scan. Similarly, self-use Accu-Measure callipers will not be as accurate as those which benefit from the assistance of another person, like the Harpenden ones, but again they are much less expensive.They are easy to use. Just push the slide to the right-hand side of the scale, pull a fold of skin from one side of the waist, press the callipers across it until you detect a click, release them and then read the measurement from the slider. By referring to the accompanying chart you will be able to find your body-fat percentage according to your age. Simplicity itself. I find the Accu-Measure testers to be far more reliable than those bioelectric impedance analysis scales.