Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale

by Omron

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 12.8 x 3.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 pounds
• ASIN: B0018PA3OE
• Item model number: 510W
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,082 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

The HBF-510W is an easy-to-use total body monitoring scale which not only calculates visceral fat, and skeletal muscle mass levels -- both helpful indicators for consumers to use when determining appropriate calorie intake and exercise levels. It also displays standard values such as body fat percentage, weight and BMI to help users take proactive steps toward better health. The scale uses full-body sensing technology featuring hand grip and foot electrodes to facilitate a highly accurate reading.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, Consistent, Reliable, April 17, 2009

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Jeff Kraus (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale (Electronics)

I was excited to get this scale. It's my first scale that does more than tell you how much you weigh. I don't really have a way to tell how accurate the weight reading is. But I do know that it's consistent. I've tried all sorts of different tests: Weighing myself multiple times, recalibrating the scale each time, weighing myself with shoes, then without shoes, then weighing the shoes to see if me + shoes = me wearing shoes, etc. etc. The numbers always seem to come out the way they should.

The same goes for the other readings - I have no way of knowing how accurate they are. But across a few days, resting metabolism varies by no more than 10-15 calories, skeletal muscle and body fat stay within 1%, visceral fat is always the same number, and BMI only varies slightly with day-to-day weight changes.

It's been a little under three weeks so far with the scale, so I haven't really had it long enough to see a significant trend forming based on my recent exercise regimen. But being able to see all of those values really keeps your behavior in check. Every time you see one of the values change for the better, it helps to renew your resolve. I've got a lot of room to improve, and I think this scale is really going to help me maintain my focus.

In my opinion, it's worth double what I paid for it. I only wish (manufacturers, take note!) that there was more you could do with the memory function. It keeps 90 days worth of data for each user profile, but you can only view today, yesterday, last week, last month, and 90 days ago. I'd like to see a little USB port in there where you could put a memory stick and it would download a CSV or other delimited text file containing your history. It would be a simple matter to import the file into a spreadsheet application to view charts and graphs of your progress.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OMRON SCALE, June 14, 2009

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M. schofield - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale (Electronics)

This is a pretty good product for keeping track of your weight loss (or gain). It is not super accurate though, but still gives you an idea of whats going on. I had my body composition done professionally. I checked it against the scale and found that if I entered myself as a male, it was very accurate (I'm female). I believe this is because it doesn't account for athletic body types.

2.0 out of 5 stars Love this but PRICE is much higher than direct!!, January 23, 2012

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Mike Jacobs (Southeast Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Omron Body Composition Monitor with Scale (Electronics)

This is the scale to get if your eyes aren't what they used to be and you want a very VERY good product. The top-end models even have a "body age" indicator, can you believe that? You might not want to see THAT index. It works for up to four and the handheld grip is easy to read. According to the booklet, it also makes ther reading more accurate and tells you a few things that you might not get from the "foot-only" body readers. Sorry, I have to say that as of this writing you can get this directly from the company much cheaper... in fact, you can buy the top of the line model cheaper than where this low-end (but still excellent quality and usability) model is priced. My rating is based purely on the PRICE and I'll correct this if/when the model/price is updated.