How 3D body scanning changes the game for trainers and their clients
Recently we collaborated with Jamie Michalak; Director and Head Coach/Trainer at Adelaide’s Anatomy Fitness to see how our scanners changed his 8-Week challenges, and what that meant for his clients.Our data, added to his programming, produced some fantastic results. Our system can give all trainers a serious data advantage. SOLVING THE WEIGHT DILEMNA FOR TRAINERS One of the most enduring fitness fallacies is that reduced body weight is good and increased body weight is bad. Many people gauge their health, or change in their health, by the number they see on the scales.That creates a major problem for personal trainers; how do...
How to measure body fat accurately
We’ve learned plenty about how to measure body fat since we opened our own body scanning service. There's a few ways to do it, but not many ways to do it well.We'll put our biases up front; we are a 3D body composition scanning business. We chose our Styku scanners because we think they give the best results relative to the scan cost for customers, and the hardware cost for us. We like to be open and honest about our service and competing services so we put this guide together for people as a starting point for researching how to measure...
Is 3D body scanning a DEXA scan alternative?
Claiming to be a DEXA scan alternative service is bold. DEXA is the benchmark body composition measurement after all. So we got our own DEXA scans, then immediately compared them to our own Styku scanners to test whether we truly are a DEXA scan alternative. The results were very close indeed.We understand that a sample size of two people isn’t the most scientifically vigorous, but the point was comparing services as any customer would experience them. We went from a DEXA scan we paid for, and compared it to the next scan we did at our office as if we...
Styku report example
We wanted to show you a Stkyu report example so you know exactlty what to expect after a 3D body scan from us.We chose the Styku scanning system to base our Future Health Fitness platform on because its visual reporting system has incredible power to motivate.Being able to see a snapshot of your body, with full composition and measurement data, means you don't have to interpret crude measures like the number on your scales or a BMI calculation. Knowing exactly what you're made of, and being able to measure changes over time, means you can make better decisions on your...
How Styku health scanning works
How Styku's health and wellness scanning tool came from gaming hardware How Styku’s scanning hardware works is quite remarkable. It offers safe, affordable, portable, and highly accurate surface scanning. What’s more remarkable though is where it came from. It’s a case of a product that failed in its original market, only to be successful in another.The infrared camera within the Styku’s scanning tower began life as Microsoft Kinect V2 hardware. Microsoft spent years developing an accurate, safe, compact, and affordable depth sensing and motion tracking system to use with XBox gaming systems. Its original intention was to track body movements so...
Styku surface scan Vs DEXA scan
Styku’s system mixes precise scanning hardware with a calculation algorithm that gives highly accurate body composition data that is within a few percent of a DEXA scan’s results.It all begins with the link between the body’s external surface and internal composition. The close relationship between the two has been known for decades and has been the basis of traditional body composition calculations. The problem has always been the human error and inaccurate tools. The calipers and measuring tape can give wildly differing results depending on who is doing the measuring. If they’re not measuring at very specific “body landmarks” and...