Two Scales, Two Body Fat Readings: Which Do You Trust?
The same 634 mornings, two scales, 6 to 9 points apart on body fat. What the numbers are good for, and which app setting explains almost the whole gap.
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The same 634 mornings, two scales, 6 to 9 points apart on body fat. What the numbers are good for, and which app setting explains almost the whole gap.
I weigh myself on two scales every morning. After a poker night, both showed +1.6 kg. What in my data is noise, and when you can see the real direction.
I ask Claude and ChatGPT about my sleep, HRV and training. Now they also log tags and session details, once I confirm in obseed.
My watch went for a swim in a fountain and invented about 100 metres of climbing. obseed now corrects errors like this automatically, even in old sessions.
obseed now breaks your session into five-minute slices and shows the temperature curve instead of a single average, with a heat load reading per slice.
A watch does not measure your VO2max, it estimates it. Why that estimate is surprisingly good for recreational athletes and misses for the very best.
Whoop says rest day, Garmin says threshold training. Why wearables contradict each other, and why your measurement method matters more than who is right.
Attach real sport-nutrition products to each session and capture the exact carbs, sodium, caffeine, and calories you took in, next to what you burned.
obseed now offers a personal iCalendar feed: subscribe once to see your sessions, competitions, and sleep in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook.
Your daily tags now become visual heatmaps. obseed weekly and monthly views reveal supplement gaps, sickness arcs, and caffeine rhythms at a glance.
91 Oura tags flow automatically into obseed — correlating with Garmin, Whoop, Withings, and Wahoo. No double entry. No silos. Your full picture.
60+ HRV metrics across 9 physiological categories from your wearable: Poincaré, DFA alpha-1, multiscale entropy, personal baseline, and 15-page reports.
Your wearable measures everything — except the why. obseed Universal Tagging: 290+ tags across 10 categories, 6 time models, cross-device correlation.
obseed now integrates with Wahoo ELEMNT, KICKR, and BOLT — automatically syncing your cycling workouts, power zones, and FTP from full FIT file imports.
obseed now fully integrates with Withings scales, blood pressure monitors, and wearables, bringing a smarter, more resilient data sync experience.

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