Weighing in...
During our January Club
fitness specials we checked out a connected kitchen scale, the
Terraillon NutriTab, designed for keeping track of what goes into
your body. Now we're looking at another Terraillion smart scale, one
intended for your whole body. We review the Terrailon Web Coach
Prime.
Just like the Withings Smart Body Analyzer we reviewed a few years back, the Web Coach Prime
is a set of scales with traditional stylings that wirelessly connect
to a smartphone app to display more than just your weight. In fact,
it will let you in on your BMI, muscle mass, fat percentage, and also
the mass of your bones. This info will then be stored in the
Terraillon Wellness Coach app (iOS & Android) so you can track
it.
But why? Well, if
you're working out for looking to improve your fitness and general
health, just checking to see how heavy you are can be misleading. As
you exercise you might be losing fat, but you'll also be gaining
muscle, meaning weight indicators can be confusing and some people
might actually see an increase in their weight after working out for
a while.
The Terrailon Web Coach
Prime cuts right through all of that confusion by clearly displaying
what it is that is making up your body's total weight, tracking
increases in muscle and loss of fat (or vice versa!). Obviously
weight is measured by the pressure applied to the glass platform, but how
does it work out what makes up that weight? We never knew knew this,
but smart scales such as this use bioelectrical impedance analysis to
pass an electric current through your feet and into your body. It
then measures the current to work out what your body is made from, as
fat, bone, muscle, and water all conduct electricity differently.
So there you have it.
However, using the Terrailon Web Coach Prime is a lot simple then
getting your head around that, as you really do just step on, wait a
second or two, then check out the readings. The scale itself will
display weight on the LCD screen as default, so you can just use it
as conventional scales should you wish. All the additional data will
be sent via Bluetooth to your phone, and again this is a very quick
process. Use it daily and you can track your progress.
Fortunately the
Terrailon Web Coach Prime can be linked to more than just one app,
meaning one unit will do for the whole family. Each time you step on
your phone will connect to it automatically. So hopefully no crossed
info will show up in your app.
The Terrailon Web Coach
Prime looks great and the data it brings up is genuinely useful for
those trying to improve their health. We also like the fact that,
even without an app, it still functions as a bathroom scale, so adding this to
your bathroom will benefit everyone. Decent price, too.
£60
