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Fitness Scale 7850.02 – Evaluation of readings
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■ Muscles
Every person has over 600 voluntary muscles. They
constitute about 40% of total body mass for a man
and about 34% for a woman.
Muscularity generally depends on personal lifestyle.
Checking muscle mass is vitally important for peoples
with weight or fat problems.
As the body needs muscles to break down excess
energy reserves or fat pads, reducing weight is only
successful in the long term if muscles are trained
at the same time.
■ Energy consumption
The metabolic rate is printed in kcal and is calcula-
ted from your personal data corrected by a factor
for your personal mobility type and the measured
body mass distribution.
Metabolic rate =
basal metabolic rate + performance rate
If you intake fewer kilocalories than your personal
energy consumption, your body reacts by losing
weight. Your weight will rise if you intake more
kilocalories.
Body fluids in %
Age
Women Men
normal normal
10–12 > 60 > 64
12–18 > 58.5 > 63.5
18–30 > 56 > 62.5
30–40 > 53 > 61
40–50 > 52 > 60
50–60 > 51 > 59
60 + > 50 > 58
■ Body water percentage
The body water percentage is printed out in per-
cent. The value shown in this analysis corresponds
to “total body fluids".
The body of an adult person consists of about 60%
of water. The water percentage is mainly dependent
on age, sex, the amount of physical activity and the
body's fat content.
The difference between men and women comes
from the higher body fat mass of women.
Since the greater percentage of body fluids is
contained in the fat-free mass (73%), and the
water content in fatty tissue is naturally very low
(approx. 10%), the body water percentage automa-
tically falls as the body fat percentage rises.