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Fitness
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Savvy fitness club operators and personal trainers see the benefits of having
an accurate body composition analyzer in their facility. InBody helps to take your club or studio to the next level!
With InBody, fitness professionals can validate their services, improve client loyalty and boost revenue and retention
by offering InBody tests in their facilities.
With InBody,
you give your fitness club a competitive edge
Service Validation
Accurately measure and track client progress and show them how they can reach health and fitness goals.
Customer Retention
Inspire your members to focus on changes that really matter based on their InBody test results.
Additional Revenue
Charge members to take an InBody test or leverage the InBody to turn potential members into new members.
In less than 60 seconds, the InBody test provides easy-to-understand, accurate and objective measurements to evaluate health risks, monitor fitness progress and achieve fitness goals.
With InBody analyzers, fitness professionals are able to record their client’s journey and their transformations. From the moment of intake to a fully motivated gym member, InBody devices help fitness professionals increase motivation, track the results, and improve people’s health, fitness, and sports performance.
Key Assessments
What Our Customers Say
Maintaining weight while increasing muscle and decreasing fat
Monitoring a client’s muscle and fat balance allows trainers to identify imbalances between the two compartments and focus their attention on setting more appropriate training goals and create more effective plans for reducing health risks. With the use of Segmental Lean Analysis, trainers will be able to identify areas for training that will maximize progress. This equips trainers with the tools to understand starting points, target areas in need of improvement, set attainable and specific goals and optimize success and health improvements.
As we can see from this client, they have been engaging in a personal training program for a period of 7 months. During this time, body weight has remained stable, however, body composition, i.e. the proportions of muscle and fat in the body, have changed significantly. Through the use of body composition, trainers can maximize the success of their clients and focus on these positive changes in skeletal muscle and body fat mass instead of weight, where most client’s attention will be centered.
By having a visual representation of a training program and its positive progress on clients, trainers can keep their clients motivated while showcasing that their hard work is paying off. This ensures adherence and keeps clients motivated to continue to engage in a healthy habit throughout their lifespan.
Preventing frailty and decrease of muscle mass
Numerous studies support the correlation between overweight/obesity and the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Clients embarking on a weight loss program through the adoption of physical activity can decrease their risk for various health conditions by lowering their body fat mass, body fat percentage, and visceral fat while focusing on muscle maintenance or gain in order to further reduce health risks. As trainers begin an exercise program, InBody provides an all-encompassing assessment of body fat as well as fat distribution to better assist trainers set goals and guide programming. By reducing body fat, specifically visceral fat, clients will be reducing the risk for diabetes and CVD but also reducing stress on joints which can preserve joint health through the lifespan.
Developing muscle mass becomes a crucial point for both older and obese clients, especially if there is an imbalance between muscle and fat. When these clients have excess body fat mass and underdeveloped muscle, they can be suffering from significant health risks due to sarcopenic obesity. Because muscle mass plays an integral role in health and disease, low muscle is associated with certain diseases like diabetes and higher risk for frailty. By tracking changes in Skeletal Muscle Mass (SMM), trainers can help prevent further loss of muscle as well as strive off sarcopenia and frailty.
Through the use of Segmental Lean Analysis, trainers will be able to target specific areas of the body to decrease the likelihood of falls and frailty related injury. The use of the top and bottom bars guide trainers on where to increase lean mass to help clients better support themselves. The bottom bar percentage educates clients if a specific limb is insufficiently developed to support their overall weight. Ideally, this bottom bar would want to be at 100%. For those not at 100%, this can be a starting point for trainers when they are first given new clients who have low SMM and high body fat to preserve joint function, functionality, and prevent frailty. A combination of these resources allows trainers to implement various targets and training strategies to optimize the progress and overall health of these clients.
Maximize sports performance in and out of season
Working with sport-specific athletes, the balance of lean mass becomes crucial to maintain sports performance and reduce the risk of injury. For trainers with clients going to the gym as well as engaging in recreational or professional sports, it becomes important for trainers to monitor gains over time to maximize sports performance, as well as watch for signs of potential injury.
As clients continue to train both in and out of season, trainers must keep a close eye on body composition parameters to keep their client on track toward their desired goals. In the case of a client who engages in a predominantly leg-dominant sport, watching muscle mass increase is a positive sign for sports performance. However, being able to monitor changes in lean mass between legs can help prevent injury. Segmental Lean Analysis (SLA) allows for trainers to track how much lean mass a client has and if the amount of lean mass is sufficient to support that client’s overall weight. The bottom bar sufficiency percentage can also be utilized to monitor for imbalances between limbs. An imbalance is classified as a difference of greater than or equal to 6% between the arms and greater than or equal to 3% between the legs. In the case of this client, we can see a 3% difference which could stem from sport specific play or improper exercise planning/form when training. Being aware of this imbalance allows trainers to adjust training to unilateral exercises to correct the imbalance before it becomes any worse and leads to potential injury.
Another method of monitoring for potential injury is the use of the ECW/TBW Analysis. As clients train and engage in sports, the body is being put under physical stress. Adequate rest and recovery are needed to allow for muscles to recover and regrow. Inflammation is a key point that is reflected in the ECW/TBW; by monitoring changes in the ratio over time, a steady increase can indicate a sign of overtraining or improper recovery. Monitoring this progression can alert trainers that clients need a less intense workout or longer recovery to reduce the potential for an overtraining injury.
Helping athletes develop balanced bodies
Programming for athletic populations takes careful consideration. Activity type is a big contributor to how trainers will program to achieve client goals. Weightlifters require very precise training prescriptions. When clients reach out to trainers after hitting a plateau, trainers will be able to utilize the InBody to identify where lean mass needs to be increased to maximize client physique. Having a detailed breakdown of segmental lean mass can steer client-trainer conversation to programming and help set specific outcomes. This detailed breakdown will also identify if the clients previous training regiment has put them at increased risk for injury which can be detrimental when it comes time to compete.
Weightlifters with overdeveloped upper bodies and underdeveloped lower bodies are at higher risk for injury than those with a more balanced distribution of lean mass, particularly when the bottom bars of the segmental lean analysis falls below 100% such as in this client. Trainers that utilize the Segmental Lean Analysis can identify this imbalance between upper and lower body and incorporate proper training to not only increase the client’s desired outcomes of building more lean mass overall, but also reducing injury risk to promote long-term training success.
As the client continues to work with their trainer, increases in lean mass to the lower extremities will be reflected on the results sheet. These improvements can be monitored and tracked through a training program, providing credibility to the trainer and their programs. Clearly displayed proof of results can increase the client’s likelihood of staying with their trainer even once the season ends.
Decrease visceral fat and lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases
Determining client health risk can be tricky when encountering clients with high amounts of skeletal muscle mass. While the balance between the muscle and fat compartment heavily favors skeletal muscle, this client is still at elevated risk for developing health conditions due to their high overall weight– partially driven by above-normal body fat mass. While relatively young and fit, this client might believe themselves to be healthy; however, long-term, this trend will increase the risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and even certain cancers.
As trainers encounter these types of clients, a complete body composition breakdown can guide what kind of exercise modality might fit best to improve the client’s overall body composition. While this client has adequate lean mass, incorporation of more aerobic exercise can help decrease overall weight, body fat mass, and visceral fat, which is approaching a level associated with higher risk of certain metabolic diseases. Combining aerobic and resistance exercise can assist with reduction of both overall and visceral fat while promoting muscle maintenance or growth. Both of these types of changes will improve disease risk in the short term, while also supporting long-term health for the client.
With the use of the InBody results sheet, trainers can better educate clients on the importance of different training protocols and how body composition is an important key to understanding overall health and wellness. Client’s who have a predominantly resistance based workout might still be at risk for health disease. Use of body composition can allow trainers to educate clients and show them the value of training programs aimed at overall health and wellness.
Recommended Models
Advanced Analysis
InBody 570
Body Composition Analyzer
Selected for gyms and sports clinics
Test results in 45 seconds
Portable Analysis
