Measuring muscle mass provides a deeper understanding of health beyond basic weight. Tracking muscle helps boost your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), accelerating calorie burn and supporting sustainable weight loss. Additionally, monitoring muscle is essential as we age to maintain strength, bone density, and joint flexibility. Use analyser scales to track progress accurately and optimise your overall body composition.

• Introduction
• Building muscle mass
• Losing muscle mass
• Excessive Muscle Mass
• Measuring and tracking muscle mass with body analyser scales
• Which bathroom scales can help to track muscle mass?
• Quiz: What kind of bathroom scale is recommended for me

Introduction

Muscle mass is just one way of measuring your body and your health and fitness. It's just one part of understanding body composition.

Before we go into reasons for investing in analyser scales, let's look at what muscle mass is.

Building muscle mass

Building muscle mass is often confused with burning body fat. While burning fat is often a direct result of increased muscle mass, the two are, however, far from being the same. Body fat percentages measure the total amount of fat held within your body. Muscle mass, on the other hand, includes the weight of your smooth and skeletal muscles and the water contained.

When it comes to burning energy, muscles are like engines. In terms of fitness, your muscle mass plays a vital role. As your body builds muscles, it continually burns fat and energy. The more your muscle mass increases, the quicker your body can burn energy/calories. Increasing your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate),this ultimately helps you to lose weight. Keeping an eye on your muscle mass with the help of muscle mass scales is important, because having too little or too much muscle mass can cause all kinds of problems.

Losing muscle mass

As you age, your lean muscle mass continually decreases. Unless you do something to counter this loss, you risk losing up to 50 per cent of your muscle mass from the age of 20 until you are 90 - while simultaneously gaining body fat. Eventually, low muscle mass will result in loss of strength and joint flexibility, making it difficult, if not impossible, for you to perform daily routine tasks or lift heavy objects.

Excessive Muscle Mass

Having too much muscle mass can also cause problems. A very high muscle mass percentage means your BMR will also be very high. This in turn means you must eat virtually every hour of the day and engage in extreme workout regimes to maintain this high muscle mass.

Measuring and tracking muscle mass with body analyser scales

Measuring your lean muscle mass, muscle mass scaleshelp you to more effectively manage both your muscle mass and body fat percentages. Alerting you to the need to, these scales can help you to:

• Reverse the decrease in muscle mass, bone density and strength that comes with age
• Maintain your joint flexibility, and, if combined with a healthy diet
• Guide weight reduction

Which bathroom scales can help to track muscle mass?

Salter have an extensive range of premium-quality muscle mass scales designed to help you manage your muscle mass and body fat percentages; BMR, BMI and body water/bone mass percentages more effectively. Get started on your road to a healthier body by browsing our range today.

Quiz: What kind of bathroom scale is recommended for me