The Skulpt Scanner. Measures Body Fat Percentage, Identifies Muscle Strengths and Weaknesses, and Provides a Personalized Workout Plan to Burn Fat and Build Muscle.

I wanted an estimate of my body fat percentage. I started an exercise program about 6-7 months ago involving resistance training.I wanted a baseline from now to see how my dietary intake effected my fitness.There are a few methods out on the market (i.e. digital scales, calipers, tape measurement), as well as other methods that are very involved (i.e. Bodpod, Dexa scan, hydrostatic weighing). The problem with calipers are that there is a learning curve associated with them, and it really takes another person to make the measurements on the assessed person to be more accurate. Scales only look at the fat total percentage in the entire body (omental fat, intramuscular fat, and subcutaneous fat) so it is not precise. That goes the same for handheld biometry.When I saw that this takes 26 readings across different muscle groups I figured it had more validity than other more cursory measurements.I proceeded to charge the device for 2 hours prior to use. I filled up the spray bottle. Then, I proceeded to download the app, register for an account, and pair the device to the phone.As expensive as this was I was surprised that it didn’t have some form of carrying case. This has a USB cable, cradle and the device.Pairing was simple enough, and firmware took a few minutes to update in the unit.To get a reading, you can’t have any excessive body hair, and the electrodes need to be wet. That is how I noticed how this works. It will go step by step to each body part: right vs left, each major muscle group, upper and lower body, front and back torso).It took about 15 minutes to get the readings. It broke down the fat percentage by body part and assessed the quality of muscle side to side. I ran it once and may have been flexing on one side, which likely affected muscle quality readings. So I will try it again, in the next few days.In the summary you choose your goals: get fit, lose fat or gain muscle. It gives recommended exercises.Overall it’s an excellent system. It does take time, but it gives a more accurate reading than just a scale would.

It's a great little tool to be honest. The people who say it's highly variable are right (within a range), and so are the people who say it's very repeatable. What matters is how you use it, where you place it, and what your expectations are. I currently measure 3-4x with the 'Quick Scan' option, then average. It's been super repeatable this way, with a few outliers that probably were factors of placement, or the amount of water on the unit. It's EASILY within a half percent, which is more accurate than calipers are. Hell even DEXA is 3% variance between visits half the time, and that's using the same machine.With that said, there are a few times it's confused me by taking three lower measurements (13% triceps, 20% right abs, 14% right quad), and spitting out some weird number like 25% bodyfat. I literally just toss those out though, as most of the time it's well within the range I'm expecting. It's also done the opposite twice, giving me between 15 and 17% bodyfat with higher readings on the three Quick Scan areas. Again, I just toss them out. You can get the same outliers with calipers...and I will say, the learning curve on this is far, far less steep than calipers.Some background on why I bought this tool. I'd been injured awhile back, and had to take time off the gym. I was also quite busy with work, and...well, I like food, too lol. The sum of the three was 25lbs of bodyfat gain. I finally got back to the gym and got serious about cutting the bodyfat back down. When I do this (I've done it in the past), I use a spreadsheet tracker for caloric intake, and weigh myself every day. This gives me an accurate number for my TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). In other words, what I need to eat to maintain my weight. I then determine how much I want to lose per week, and eat that many calories less than the TDEE number the spreadsheet gives me. Since it's a running log, the number is always accurate to ME, with MY hormonal status, and MY activity level. You can google and find the spreadsheet templates all over the place. My favorite is by 3-Suns on Reddit. Anyhow, I have a number of tools to measure bodyfat. Accumeasure, FatTrackII, regular calipers, a cloth tape (for the military method)...but none of them left me confident in the number I was getting. I know visually and from past experience I'm between 18% and 20% right now. I decided to get Bod Pod testing to verify...which was a complete joke. The results told me I was 30.1% bodyfat. Sorry, you don't see 4 upper abs, obliques, and the top of your lower abs at 30% bodyfat. The next week I happened to stumble on this, so I ordered one. Sure enough, the first reading a week ago was 20.1%. Over the course of this week I've dropped 2.5lbs (average, compared to last week's average...so it's not water weight or waste...I'm cutting at 1000cal deficit), and the Skulpt has me at 19.3% currently.That's more than good enough for me.Oh, and it's just as accurate and repeatable on my 19yr old, 5'2, 103lb daughter, as it is on me at 42, 5'6, and 179lbs.So to close this up...if someone stole this one, I'd definitely buy another.