Fitness Wave

Hi,
As someone who has been a customer of Fitness Wave since 2006, I really think that getting your bodyfat tested regularly is the best way to see what actually works. There are lot of diets/​exercise programs, but how useful is it to see what actually works?
Well, I can tell you that thanks to being a member of Fitness Wave and having my bodyfat regularly tested, I have been able to weed through and find the things that actually work…*for me.* Because of it, I have been able to make some incredible gains in my physique.
To add to the experience, they have some other services which I have personally purchased as well. They can help you configure your caloric requirements via an RMR (resting metabolic rate). What was really cool to me was to see how my Resting Metabolic Rate jumped over a 2 month period thanks to an exercise program I was doing. Also, they have V02 max test to find the point at which your body goes from being aerobic to anaerobic. This can be useful for a lot of reasons as well.
Furthermore, the staff have always been very friendly and very helpful, and the prices are reasonable.
Very Best,
Geoff
PS, it’s also a great maintenance tool as well just to keep yourself in check. At points where I can’t focus on exercise and dieting, I still go and get my bodyfat testing, so I don’t lose too much of what I’ve gained. Plus, it makes it, so that when I’m ready to train hard it’s easy to jump back in and train hard.
PPS, Although it’s an investment, I recommend the 1x per week VIP Package, so you can really get serious about tracking your progress.

I’ve had my measurements taken at Fitness Wave several times and am very happy with their service and accuracy. Measuring my progress makes a big impact on my results. Thank you Fitness Wave. See you again in early 2012.

The price for a body fat test is pretty reasonable, though I wouldn’t do this often — just wanted to see how much the underwater weighing number compares to my Tanita bioelectrical impedance body fat scale. I know that the Tanita scale overestimates for athletes, but FitnessWave’s method produced a number that sliced my Tanita body fat % in HALF (actually a bit more than half). And the FitnessWave number was, alas, too low for me to believe it.
I emailed customer service asking for more information about how they calculate body fat, what the margin of error might be, and got no response. Minus a few stars for the black box. Even though it’s the gold standard, there is error in every measurement, especially since the things they measure go into this predictive formula that’s subject to error. So, I remain skeptical of the results, though it’s a great way to get happy clients to keep going back in. Kind of like a scale that you know underweighs you.

Watch ¹⁄₃ of body fat disappear instantly!
FitnessWave delivered lots of hiccups during a fun and useful experience that could surprise you.
You, too, could find out that your body fat is that much different, for better or worse, by getting dunked. You can quickly find out some other neat stuff too, by breathing through a tube or cycling away, depending on what you want to know. I was curious about body composition and basal metabolic rate.
FitnessWave offers lots of places to get the job done, including your work/​workout place, but I booked a 10 a.m. appointment during their Saturday morning hours on Westwood. Easy parking in the morning. Website offers a code that their own system won’t take, so a call cleared that up and I ordered a dunk & breather package for $ 95.
A sign told me to wait outside during BMR testing, so I was confused – should be my testing, so I knocked. A woman opened the door a minute later to the dunking office, complete with guy doing BMR testing. After sitting ’til nearly quarter past, I learned it’d be another 15… actually 25 more minutes, after which I wondered if my vacillating blood pressure would affect BMR results.
By 10:40, I was soothed – the delay was explained and discount offered – then slightly unsoothed – weighed and measured for height. Then I chilled for 12 minutes breathing through a tube. I was pretty sleepy, since I couldn’t have any !@#$% coffee or food beforehand, so this ended up being nice.
Soon after, I was bikini clad and face down in a tub, gripping this metal ladder-​ish scale base and forcefully breathing every last bubble out of my mouth and lungs. A bit intense but brief. Apparently exceptionally accurate. Bears repeating I was shocked by the results, because this is why this is so great. Result differences are often huge among caliper, scale and submersion methods. Now I know I don’t have to pay any attention to my scale’s calculation.
I thought I was promised body composition but the dunk really measures only body fat (via density, I think) – a definite disappointment since I did want my muscle percentage. Also, she just asked for my resting pulse, something I can’t believe wasn’t spat out by that metabolism breathing thing’s results – or a simple pulse check while I was layin’ there for a dozen minutes.
Results are incredibly simple and sparse. Somehow the reports manage also to contradict: to maintain weight, the dunk says 2050 cals and the BMR says 1750. Go figure, especially since the dunk may give the better number and so I definitely wouldn’t pay extra for the other one to tell me to limit my good eats.
Still, I got what I wanted, delay, discount and baffling surprise outcome to boot.