Sunday 11 March 2012

20%!!!

There is a school of thought that suggests the "science" behind the sort of bathroom scales that tell you how fat you are is fundamentally flawed, and such devices are therefore quite useless.

There is some logic to this, I mean I struggle to understand how a whacking electricity into the soles of your feet can differentiate between amounts of fat, muscle, bone and water with any meaningful accuracy.

But when the same set of scales that told me in June I was a mere 10% bodyfat suddenly suggest that the effects of Christmas has turned a svelt cyclist into something more resemblent of a Darts Player at 20%!!! That's just offensive, even if it is wrong...

Well that was Christmas, now though the critical number is still wavering about the 18% mark and I'm starting to hear myself say things that are normally reserved for the local "Fat Fighter's" Clubs...

But all this is about to change! A recent visit to see those nice people at Torq Fitness has been a bit of a revelation, and I'm about to enter the Brave new world of Power to Weight ratios!

The expense is monstrous and unjustifiable but never the less it looks like a Powertap needs to added to the armoury!

Being the obsessive that I am, I doubt I'll be throwing away those dodgy scales, although I will try and be less concerned about the "fatness" percentage.