How much of your body is muscle? What is your water weight? How much fat do you really need to lose?
Mastering your weight and body composition goes so far beyond a single number. Most people are only able to see their body shape and the number on the scale. But did you know that muscle is heavier than fat? Or that your daily hydration both contributes to water weight and helps you burn more fat over time? A simple scale can’t give you the full insight into your health and fitness journey. But an InBody composition test can.
What is the InBody Composition Test?
InBody is an advanced system that tests your body composition. In just a few minutes, an InBody system can reveal your body’s true percentage of muscle, fat, and water to reveal the source of your weight. This is accomplished through a light electric current run through your hands and feet. You won’t even feel a tingle, but when the electric pulse returns to the InBody system, it will provide a clear reading.
Why? Because muscle, fat, and water conduct electricity differently. Each has a unique resistance so that the speed at which the electricity travels reveals how much of your body is represented in each category. This can help you get a real look at your current state of physical health and target where you want to be.Â
The Secrets of Body Composition and Weight
Your weight is determined by more than just fat. It’s your bones, muscles, organs, water, fat, and connective tissue all combined into a single number. Gaining muscle is healthy, but it’s dense body tissue that can make you literally heavier as you get stronger. Your organs and water weight can change from day to day, or hour to hour. It’s only the fatty element of your body composition that you want to lose when you think about “losing weight,” and a “healthy weight” is different between, say, an athlete and an inactive office worker.
What is your real health status? Understanding the true balance between muscle, fat, and daily cell hydration (water weight) can tell you so much more than just stepping on a scale. It can give you an insight-revealing baseline and show your true progress on your journey of exercise and nutrition. It can also help you work on avoiding fragility and poor metabolic health by looking at where you muscle and fat is distributed throughout the body, as well as what your resting metabolic rate is or how many calories you burn at rest during a day.
Why Schedule an InBody Scan with Sana Spa
Sana Spa offers a wide range of body sculpting and fat reduction treatments that help you take control of how fat is distributed in your body. Paired with fitness and nutrition, body sculpting can help you look and feel your best.
InBody helps you take control not just of your silhouette and skin smoothness, but the precise percentage of fat and muscle in your body. Body sculpting works best with muscle to shape and support your target areas, and a healthy lifestyle that lowers your overall fat percentage. But your weight doesn’t always reveal your true progress.
Gain Muscle, Gain Weight
Did you know that many early fitness programs see an increase in weight at first? This is actually a sign of success because you are building muscle, which is heavier than fat. That’s why you might look better, even if your scale “doesn’t agree”.
Visceral Fat Estimation
InBody devices use advanced bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) technology to estimate visceral fat levels, which is the harmful fat surrounding internal organs that increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Tracking visceral fat is crucial because:
- It’s closely related to cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders.
- It provides insights beyond what traditional metrics like BMI can offer.
- It helps in assessing overall health risks, even in individuals with normal weight
Healthy Weight Loss
It’s also important not to lose weight the wrong way. You might become less healthy by losing muscle mass to starvation and inactivity. Or you could temporarily “lose weight” to dehydration by not drinking enough water.
InBody Tracks Your Real Health and Wellness
With an InBody scan, you can reveal your true health status and your progress over time. If you are building muscle, losing fat, or need to re-balance your routine, InBody can give you the full report.Â
What is the InBody Scan Experience?
Taking an InBody scan takes only a few minutes. You will wipe your hands and feet, then stand on a special scale. You will hold onto the handles with your arms straight by your side for no longer than five minutes as the machine reads your body composition with imperceptible electrical pulses. Then you get a comprehensive one-page report that will tell you everything you need to know about your muscle, fat, and water percentage and how they contribute to your optimal health goals.Â
Book Your InBody Scan with Sana Spa
If you are curious about your body composition or ready to empower your fitness journey with useful and detailed information, Sana Spa is here to help. Contact us today to schedule your InBody scan an book a follow-up at any time to keep track of your body’s unique and precise progress. Call (505) 888-0443 and press 2 for scheduling.