Activ8rlives Body Analaser Manual page 9

What does Your Activ8rlives Body Analyser Measure?
Weight
Your weight is calculated and stored in the Cloud server. For a single view of your weight, it will fall either in the
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Red, Amber or Green zones of the charts used in the Activ8rlives Health+Wellness App to indicate if you are
within a healthy range for your height and weight.
Body Fat %
This value can serve as a guide to whether you need to adjust your diet, fitness programme or fluid intake to
help you to achieve a healthy weight and balance of body composition.
Our bodies comprise of bone, fat and muscle. Fat is vital for a healthy, functioning body - it protects vital organs,
cushions joints, helps regulate body temperature, stores vitamins and helps the body sustain itself when food is
in short supply. But too much or too little body fat can be damaging to our health. This is why it is useful to
measure and monitor our body fat percentage using the Activ8rlives Body Analyser.
Body fat percentage gives us a good measure of wellness when used in conjunction with weight – if we are
aiming to lose weight, our weight loss may be caused by the lose of muscle mass rather than fat - we can still
have a high percentage of fat even when a scale indicates 'normal weight'.
For guidance for the Body Fat ranges for men and women, tables are supplied on Page 8.
Muscle Mass %
Knowing our muscle mass percentage is useful if we are undergoing any changes in our exercise regime or
undertaking a programme of weight loss. Lean muscle mass may decrease by nearly 50% between the ages of 20
and 90. We can replace this loss with fat if we don't maintain our exercise levels. We can also lose muscle rather
than fat if we undergo starvation-type diets, which are not recommended. At rest, the body burns
approximately 110 additional calories for each kilo of muscle gained. So if we come off a starvation-type diet, we
actually put on more weight as fat. Ideally we want to maintain our muscle mass % while reducing fat %,
especially visceral fat.
Visceral Fat
Visceral fat is located in our abdominal cavity (stomach area) and surrounds our vital organs. The more visceral
fat you have the greater the chance of developing insulin resistance (leading to type 2 diabetes), heart disease
and high blood pressure.
The Activ8rlives Body Analyser gives a visceral fat rating between 0 – 29.
Rating between 1 – 12: Indicates that we have a healthy level of visceral fat.
Rating between 13 – 29: Indicates that we could have excess visceral fat and we may wish to consider modifying
our diet or increasing our exercise levels.
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