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Step Right Up! The 5 Best Bathroom Scales For Busy Bodies
June 7, 2023-4 min read
It was only a matter of time before smart tech knocked on the bathroom door. The latest bathroom scales do so much more than just announce your weight: they can take an accurate snapshot of your health and fitness in the comfort of your own home. Today’s smartest scales will do everything from sync with your favourite workout app and safely chart your pregnancy journey, to track arterial health and tweet about your weight wins (yes, really!). We weigh in on the best bathroom scales for every body.
#1 Weight Watchers Body Analysis Bluetooth Diagnostic Scale
Best For: Waistline Watchers
Why: These scales by Weight Watchers have a capacity of 182kg and can help you shed unwanted inches with a personalised display that factors in your age, height and gender for accurate body measurements. Sync to the WW Scales by Conair app to monitor water retention (and give context to weight fluctuations). Have a Weight Watchers’ membership? All your stats will sync to the official WW app for extra accountability.
Top features: Personalised weigh-in displays and detailed full-body analysis, Bluetooth connectivity to pair with weight-loss apps, and colour-coded feedback motivator for achieving targets.
“Today’s best smart scales do everything from sync with your favourite workout app and safely chart your pregnancy journey, to track arterial health and tweet about your weight wins.”
#2 Beurer Bluetooth Glass Body Fat Scale White ITO Coating
Best For: Expectant Mums
Why: In the family way? Pregnancy Mode will keep baby safe from the weak electrical currents of BIA (bioelectrical impedance analysis) so you can strive for your ideal healthy weight between check-ups. Pining for your pre-baby bod? The colour-coded LED motivator will help you hit those post-baby weigh in targets while Bluetooth technology can sync with your favourite smartphone fitness app for streamlined support.
Top features: Pregnancy mode to switch off BIA for safe weight tracking. Baby Mode for easy monitoring of bub’s weight post-delivery.
#3 Beurer Bluetooth Glass Body Fat Scale
Best For: Health Tracking At Home
Why: With a sleek white design to boost any bathroom, these diagnostic digital scales hook you up to a holistic health-management system and put at your feet vital metrics that you once went to hospital for. Download the free Beurer HealthManager app and access a blood-pressure coach and detailed ECG analysis for managing your health at home. The export function sends your health parameters straight to your GP or specialist.
Top features: For cardiovascular health insights, pulse wave velocity – a key metric of arterial stiffness – will chart the time between your heart ejecting blood and it arriving in your feet. Bluetooth or wi-fi pairing with certain health apps and wearable fitness trackers can monitor blood pressure and bone density and share the data with your doc.
#4 Withings Body Plus Wi-Fi Scale
Best For: For Athletes And Fitness Buffs
Why: Scrutinise your full body composition with Position Control technology that pins your precise weight to within 0.1kg with instant on-screen feedback on your BMI, total body fat, water percentage, and bone and muscle mass. Sync to the Withings Health Mate app for a full workout report, including heart rate zones, duration, calories burned, VO2Max fitness ranking (maximum oxygen consumption) and GPS path. Wi-fi capability means you don’t need your smartphone at weigh-in to synchronise your stats.
Top features: Get the full fitness scoop and smash training goals with scales that reveal your BMI, heart rate, water percentage and body fat breakdown. Bluetooth or wi-fi functionality will align with fitness trackers and health apps to calculate daily training intensity, chart VO2Max, lactic acid threshold and segmented body analytics for a deeper dive into your anatomy.
#5 Withings Body Cardio Wi-Fi Scale
Best For: All The Family
Why: Loaded with smart synchronicities, these wi-fi-enabled scales can chart everything from your family’s health and fitness status to sleep quality. Pulse wave velocity indicates cardiovascular health in between specialist appointments. Pregnancy Mode and Baby Mode cater for growing families, while up to eight people can chase individual weight and fitness goals (with progress snapshots of the last eight weigh-ins). Pair with the Withings Health Mate companion app for a one-stop shop of workout reports, activity tracking and handy health stats.
Top features: Scales that store multiple user profiles and share family data to streamline household health. With Bluetooth or wi-fi you can set motivational family goals on shared exercise apps and monitor health and fitness metrics like blood pressure, heart rate and BMI.
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