Weight scale tracks your overall body weight not body fat alone. Therefore you may need to consider how your clothes fit or use other methods to determine whether you gained fat or added muscles.

Ns 210 Unit 6 Seminar Anthropometrics Anthropometry
Advantages and disadvantages of body measurement. The responses are often so narrow in relation to the question that they create or magnify bias that is not factored into the survey. Variable readings depending on depth or insertion and presence of stool in rectum. Another disadvantage is that bodyweight training may be daunting to novices and seen to be too easy for experienced athletes. Through this post buzzle presents the pros and cons associated with hydrostatic weighing. Thermometers can break if bitten. That is not accounted for in this body fat analysis.
Discomfort for both the patient and the parent performing the temperature. Most brands make clothes made for ruler type bodies. The second disadvantage is that a person may have little body fat in arms chest and thighs and may have excess fat elsewhere in the body. Of all the testing methods hydrostatic weighing has gained substantial attention. Case reports of rectal perforation in infants. As bodyweight exercises use the individuals own weight to provide the resistance for the movement the weight being lifted is never greater than the weight of ones own body.
According to the nsca essentials of personal training the standard of error in other methods of estimating body fat such as skin fold assessment bioelectrical impedance and anthropometric measures are established against hw and these methods may have more error than hw. I also have to alter a lot of pants im 53 and id say 85 of jackets i get are too long in the arms. Disadvantages of bmi testing. Could injure the mouth following oral surgery click again to see term. Ordinal measurement disadvantages the same characteristics of ordinal measurement that create its advantages also create certain disadvantages. Bmi does not differentiate between these.
Risk of contagious illness spread. Lately my body type is in lol. Inaccurate if client has just ingested hot or cold food or fluid or smoked. Most accurate non invasive method for detecting fever. Lag core temperature changes. This shortcoming can be done away with if the same area is used time and again so one can gauge the increase or reduction in body fat over time.
A steep increase observed in the trend of physical awareness amidst people has been the motivating factor in the extensive research on the measurement of body composition. Disadvantages of using weight scales. Your body weight includes a number of components such as muscle mass fat internal organs water and skeletal weight.