1st Official (4 week) Weigh & Measure at the Fitness Center
Today I had my 1st official weigh & measure since joining the
Fitness Center and participating in group training sessions for the last
four weeks. The results were very good, but also confusing -- both to
me and the trainer.
OK so Friday, January 7th was my initial
weigh-in (training started the following Monday) and their scale
actually said more than my home scale did at the time. So my official
start weight was 116.1 kg (256 lb). But today their scale said less
than mine did -- I came in at 112.9 kg (248.9) for a loss of 3.2 kg
(7.1 lb) -- now that total loss does match the total I get from my home
scale, so no big surprise there, but I'm not sure how accurate their
scale is. Not only with weight, but other measurements as well.
It's
supposed to calculate your % of body fat and water, and the weight of
muscle, bone, etc. I remember thinking the percentages do not total
100%, which I commented on at the initial weigh-in. He said it was
more to be used as a guideline to see if you're on track rather than
worrying if it's 100% accurate. Fair enough -- so how did today
compare to 4 weeks ago?
As
you can see at left, there were two areas of concern. Despite having
lost both kilos and cms, it says I went up in body fat and down in
muscle mass? What the?? They've been working me pretty hard -- I can
feel it getting easier to do sit-ups, push-ups, etc. I have more
endurance to jog further. I know I'm getting fitter -- and having lost
both weight and centimeters, how on earth could that be? The trainer
couldn't make sense of it either. He just said as long as I'm losing
weight and shrinking in size, just keep doing what I'm doing.
It's
really weird though -- not sure what to make of it. I do recall,
however, that he measured my height again and asked me for my age
because they were not written down in the first record. So maybe he had
entered the height or age differently last time? I think those would
affect the results, because you have to enter those before the scale is
ready to measure. Who knows.