Multi-Frequency BIA Explained: Why Some Scales Cost $50 and Others Cost $5,000
I was at a fitness trade show in Seattle last month when a sales rep tried to sell me a multi-frequency BIA scale for forty-two hundred dollars.
The Body Fat Testing Protocol Every CrossFit Athlete Should Know Before Competition
David showed up at our Portland studio three days before the Rose City Summer Slam with a problem I had seen a dozen times before. He needed to make w...
Portland's Free Fitness Parks Are Changing How Locals Track Body Composition
I was jogging through Laurelhurst Park last Saturday morning when I noticed something new: a pop-up tent with a banner reading
GLP-1 Medications and Body Composition: What the Scale Won't Show You
Dr. Sarah Chen, an endocrinologist I collaborate with here in Portland, sent me a DEXA report last week that made me put down my coffee. Her patient —...
3D Body Scanner vs. DEXA: Which One Actually Tells the Truth in 2026?
A new wellness center opened on NW 23rd last month with a Styku 3D body scanner in the lobby and a DEXA machine in the back room. They are offering bo...
Can Your Smartphone Really Measure Body Fat? The 2026 AI PhotoScan Reality Check
My partner Alex sent me a link last month with the subject line
How to Track Lean Body Mass Progress Without Obsessing Over the Scale
Marcus walked into our Portland studio last March looking defeated. He had been bulking for six months, eating in a slight surplus, lifting four days ...
Does Drinking Water Affect Your Body Fat Reading? The Hydration Effect Explained
I stepped on my bioimpedance scale on August 1st and nearly fell off. The app told me my body fat percentage had dropped from 24.3% to 19.8% overnight...
What Is a Healthy Body Fat Percentage for Women? The Honest Range No One Talks About
The chart on the wall at my first gym job showed women at 20% body fat as
How Often Should You Measure Body Fat? A Data-Driven Guide to Tracking Frequency
Have you ever stepped on your scale three mornings in a row and watched your body fat percentage bounce from 22% to 19% to 25% without changing a sing...
Why Your Gym's Body Fat Machine Is Probably Wrong — And What to Trust Instead
I stepped onto the body composition analyzer at my old gym on Burnside last Tuesday, mostly out of boredom while waiting for Alex to finish their dead...
Dexa Scan Morning Routine Portland
Title: The Body Fat Test I Do Every Morning (And Why You Probably Shouldn't) Slug: dexa-scan-morning-routine-portland Date: 2026-08-01 Domain: bodycom...
Body Recomposition 12 Weeks Real Numbers
I Tried Body Recomposition for 12 Weeks. Here Are My Real Numbers. Emily Clarke I stepped on the DEXA platform at the studio on NW 23rd wearing nothin...
Smart Scale Segmental Analysis: Marketing Hype or Real Science?
CES 2026 was full of them. Smart scales with eight electrodes, twelve electrodes, even scales that claimed to measure segmental body composition throu...
Skinny Fat Body Composition Myth 2026
I weigh 125 pounds. I am 5'6". My BMI is 20.2. Perfectly normal. My doctor never mentions my weight. My family calls me "skinny." And yet my body fat ...
The Body Composition Guide Every Endurance Athlete Ignores — Until It Costs Them a PR
Sarah was a marathon runner who came to our Portland studio six weeks before the Portland Marathon. She was five-foot-six, one hundred twenty-two poun...
How to Prepare for a DEXA Scan: The Complete Pre-Test Checklist
I have watched people ruin their DEXA scans before they even lie down on the table. They show up after a marathon. They show up dehydrated from a nigh...
The Dexa Scan That Changed How I See My Body
The DEXA Scan That Changed How I See My Body I stepped onto the DEXA platform at the fitness studio on NW 23rd wearing nothing but a sports bra and co...
5 Metabolic Health Markers That Matter More Than Your Body Fat Percentage
I tested a twenty-eight-year-old CrossFitter last month whose body fat percentage was 8%. Eight. By every chart on every gym wall, he was an athlete. ...
Body Fat Percentage by Age and Gender: The Reference Chart You Actually Need
I have a folder on my desk labeled
Portland Heat Body Composition Scale Lies
My Body Composition Changed 8% in One Month—And It Had Nothing to Do with My Gym Routine Emily Clarke I stepped on my bioimpedance scale on August 1st...
Smart Scale Gained Muscle Jeans Said Otherwise
The scale congratulated me. It flashed a green arrow and a cheerful message: "Muscle mass increased by 8.2 lbs!" I stood there in my bathroom, naked a...
Why BMI Fails Older Adults: The Muscle Loss Problem No One Warned You About
My mother called me last month from her doctor's office in Eugene, frustrated and confused. At sixty-seven, five-foot-four, and one hundred forty-eigh...
InBody vs. Tanita: We Put the Two Biggest BIA Brands to the Test
I spent three days last month in a borrowed research lab at Oregon Health & Science University with an InBody 970, a Tanita BC-418, and a Hologic DEXA...
The 2026 No-Scale Challenge: Why Portland's Fitness Community Ditched the Scale - BodyCompCheck
The 2026 No-Scale Challenge: Why Portland's Fitness Community Ditched the Scale — BodyCompCheck
Why Does My Doctor Keep Using Bmi
Why Does My Doctor Keep Using BMI When I Can See My Abs? Have you ever walked out of a doctor's appointment feeling more confused than when you walked...
The Navy Method Body Fat Formula: How Accurate Is It Really?
The Navy method is the most widely used body fat estimation formula in the world. It is built into every military physical fitness test. It is taught ...
The Best Skinfold Calipers of 2026: A Portland Physiologist's Hands-On Review
I own nine pairs of skinfold calipers. Nine. I have tested them all against DEXA, against each other, and against the same client on the same day. Som...
Body Recomposition for Women Over 40: Why the Old Rules Don't Apply
Rachel walked into our Portland studio on her forty-second birthday with a goal that sounded impossible. She wanted to lose fifteen pounds of fat and ...
How to Track Lean Body Mass Progress Without Obsessing Over the Scale - BodyCompCheck
How to Track Lean Body Mass Progress Without Obsessing Over the Scale — BodyCompCheck
How Much Does a DEXA Scan Cost in Portland? The 2026 Price Breakdown
I called twelve DEXA providers in the Portland metro area last week and asked one question: how much does a scan cost? The answers ranged from forty-f...
Waist-to-Height Ratio vs. Body Fat: The Simple Metric Doctors Are Finally Using
Dr. Patricia Williams, my primary care physician here in Portland, pulled up my chart at my annual physical last March and said something I had been w...
The Perfect Morning Routine for Consistent BIA Readings - BodyCompCheck
The Perfect Morning Routine for Consistent BIA Readings — BodyCompCheck
How a Home BIA Scale Nearly Cost David His Competition Prep - BodyCompCheck
How a Home BIA Scale Nearly Cost David His Competition Prep — BodyCompCheck
The 7-Site Skinfold Protocol: Step-by-Step for Self-Measurement - BodyCompCheck
The 7-Site Skinfold Protocol: Step-by-Step for Self-Measurement — BodyCompCheck
Navy Method vs. 3-Site Skinfold: Battle of the Estimators - BodyCompCheck
Navy Method vs. 3-Site Skinfold: Battle of the Estimators — BodyCompCheck
Bone Density vs. Body Composition DEXA: Why the Same Machine Gives Two Different Answers
I received an email last month from a seventy-one-year-old woman named Dorothy who was confused by her DEXA results. Her bone density scan — the one h...
Consumer BIA Scales vs. Professional Devices: The Real Accuracy Gap - BodyCompCheck
Consumer BIA Scales vs. Professional Devices: The Real Accuracy Gap — BodyCompCheck
What Rose City Summer Slam Athletes Learned About Body Fat Testing the Hard Way
The Rose City Summer Slam is Portland's biggest CrossFit competition of the year. Two hundred athletes, four workouts, one podium. And this year, for ...
Why Your Body Fat Percentage Changes Every Day: The Science of Daily Fluctuation
I weighed myself every morning for thirty days last January as an experiment. Not because I was trying to change my body. Because I wanted to document...
Essential Fat vs. Storage Fat: What Your Body Actually Needs - BodyCompCheck
Essential Fat vs. Storage Fat: What Your Body Actually Needs — BodyCompCheck
Body Composition Testing for Beginners: Where to Start When Everything Confuses You
I remember my first body composition test. I was twenty-two, a graduate student in kinesiology at the University of Oregon, and I had just volunteered...
Visceral Fat vs. Subcutaneous Fat: Why Your Scale Can't Tell the Difference
I tested two women at our Portland studio last year who had identical body fat percentages. Both were five-foot-five. Both weighed one hundred forty p...
Can a Tape Measure Replace Your Scale? Circumference Methods for Body Fat Tracking
I own a three-dollar cloth tape measure from a fabric store on Hawthorne Boulevard. It is frayed at the ends, the numbers are slightly worn, and it is...
Hydration Strategies for Accurate Body Composition Testing - BodyCompCheck
Hydration Strategies for Accurate Body Composition Testing — BodyCompCheck
The Protein Targets That Actually Drive Body Recomposition: 2026 Evidence Update
I have read every major protein and body recomposition study published in the last decade. I have tracked the debates between the 1.6-grams-per-kilogr...
How Marcus Learned His 'Weight Gain' Was Actually Muscle - BodyCompCheck
How Marcus Learned His 'Weight Gain' Was Actually Muscle — BodyCompCheck
Why BMI Fails Athletes: The Science of False Positives - BodyCompCheck
Why BMI Fails Athletes: The Science of False Positives — BodyCompCheck
How to Read Your DEXA Scan Results Like a Physiologist - BodyCompCheck
How to Read Your DEXA Scan Results Like a Physiologist — BodyCompCheck
The Accuracy Hierarchy: Ranking Every Body Composition Method - BodyCompCheck
The Accuracy Hierarchy: Ranking Every Body Composition Method — BodyCompCheck
Bod Pod vs. DEXA: Which Scan Is Right for You? - BodyCompCheck
Bod Pod vs. DEXA: Which Scan Is Right for You? — BodyCompCheck
Muscle Density vs. Fat Density: Why Volume Matters More Than Weight - BodyCompCheck
Muscle Density vs. Fat Density: Why Volume Matters More Than Weight — BodyCompCheck
A Portland CrossFitter's Fight Against 'Normal Weight Obesity' - BodyCompCheck
A Portland CrossFitter's Fight Against 'Normal Weight Obesity' — BodyCompCheck
How to Calculate Your True Body Fat Percentage From Multiple Methods - BodyCompCheck
How to Calculate Your True Body Fat Percentage From Multiple Methods — BodyCompCheck
How to Measure Body Fat at Home: A Complete Guide to Skin Calipers - BodyCompCheck
How to Measure Body Fat at Home: A Complete Guide to Skin Calipers — BodyCompCheck
Sarah's DEXA Scan Changed Her Doctor's Mind About BMI - BodyCompCheck
Sarah's DEXA Scan Changed Her Doctor's Mind About BMI — BodyCompCheck
What Is Normal Weight Obesity and Why Doctors Miss It - BodyCompCheck
What Is Normal Weight Obesity and Why Doctors Miss It — BodyCompCheck
Body Recomposition Meal Planning: Protein Targets and Calorie Math - BodyCompCheck
Body Recomposition Meal Planning: Protein Targets and Calorie Math — BodyCompCheck
When the Scale Lied: Jenna's Body Recomposition Journey - BodyCompCheck
When the Scale Lied: Jenna's Body Recomposition Journey — BodyCompCheck
Oregon's New Body Testing Disclosure Law: What It Means for Your Gym - BodyCompCheck
Oregon's New Body Testing Disclosure Law: What It Means for Your Gym — BodyCompCheck