Staying on track of your fitness goals is not always easy and relying on the results of tracking your weight does not provide you with the information you may need in order to know your progress. Your weight fluctuates daily with the amount of food you eat, the amount of water in your body, etc and you cannot rely on the scale to provide you with the information you need to know the fluctuations in your body's composition. Whether your goal is to lose fat, gain muscle or perhaps both, you will need more than a standard scale to know if your plan is on track. You could not be doing enough cardio and increasing your body fat and not your muscle mass or you could be doing too much cardio and losing muscle mass. You could rely on your visual perceptions of how you look in the mirror or take weekly body measurements, but these may not be providing you with accurate results either.

The Tanita Ironman Body Composition Monitor utilizes the most advanced technology available to provide accurate measurable results that make staying on track of your fitness goals a breeze. This device’s use of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) technology provides a detailed analysis of your body’s composition, taking the guesswork out of monitoring the progress of your fitness plan regardless of whether your goal is to lose fat and/or gain muscle.

Some of the features and benefits of the Tanita Ironman Body Composition Monitor include:

Weight + Body Fat + Body Water %
5 Reading Recall of Weight + Body Fat
Bone Mass & Metabolic Age Rating
Visceral Fat + Muscles Mass
Physique Rating
Health Range Indicator
Athlete mode
4 user memory + Guest

I use the Tanita Ironman Body Composition Monitor daily and with the information the device provides, I then know if I need to adjust the amount of cardio I do, how much water I need to replenish after a workout, etc. The benefits are numerous and the Tanita Ironman Body Composition Monitor has become a critical component of staying on track of my fitness goals. I highly recommend it to any person who is serious about getting into shape.

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