My Tanita bathroom scale measures fat percentage and body weight. In order to use this device, it needs to be programed for height, age, gender. Since my B'day is coming up Tuesday, I decided to change the age on this scale -- requiring that I get out the manual and pore over the specifics.
We've discovered that the scale is set up for female, not male. I wouldn't think this would make a lot of difference in the readings -- au contraire!
We've been skirting around 41% body fat for months, seemingly not able to get below 40% except in fleeting instances (I've gotten readings of 36% for a few hours.)
Today I was 42% "female" . . . and then adjusted for male 28%! That's 1/3 -- 0.666.
Spin bike last night: 35 min.
5 or 6 min to get from 83 bpm to 100. Another 5 min to get to 110. Standing w/ high resistance (We can stand/pedal a minute.) runs up to 120 -- 124 bpm. and this drops off as soon as I reduce resistance and sit to pedal. I'm running 115, pushing up to 120+ (standing), then back down to 110 bpm.
Weather forecast should improve next week, dry, sunny. We'll get a real bike out on the road.
95 bpm = 60%
110 bpm = 70%
120 bpm = 76%
125 bpm = 80%
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