Scales question

RainClowd
RainClowd Posts: 13
in Health and Weight Loss
I am using regular scales at home (non digital, brand new, used on the tile bathroom floor), and there are digital at the gym (sitting on carpet). ...today I weighed myself at home, then when I got to the gym, and was 3 kilos heavier on the gym scales than I was on the ones at home. Keep in mind this was in about a 10 minute period.

I have tested my scales at home using weights and it's correct. Does this mean my scales at home are correct and the gym ones might not be? Or can regular scales lose their accuracy the more weight that is pressed on them? Have done up to five kilos on the ones at home and the weight is correct.

Just feeling a little down if the ones at home are wrong!

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  • pyrowill
    pyrowill Posts: 1,163 Member
    I'd never trust scales on a carpet.

    In the end it's more important you use the same scales, I'd say buy some home digital scales. Your gym probably has hundred of people of all sizes stepping on it daily, eventually they are going to deteriorate and be unreliable.
  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    The ones at the gym might be faulty. Did you place weights on those to test it?
  • RainClowd
    RainClowd Posts: 13
    I bought some digitals today but it seems those are faulty so am going to take them back and get them replaced.


    Didn't test out the ones at the gym but definitely will next time I am there. I didn't test my ones at home until I got back from the gym so didn't think to test the gym ones
  • pyrowill
    pyrowill Posts: 1,163 Member
    With your new home ones, make sure you are on one solid flat surface, like if its a tiled floor try and make the whole scale on one tile etc.
  • RepsnSets
    RepsnSets Posts: 805 Member
    I bought some digitals today but it seems those are faulty so am going to take them back and get them replaced.


    Didn't test out the ones at the gym but definitely will next time I am there. I didn't test my ones at home until I got back from the gym so didn't think to test the gym ones

    I paid quite alot for my digital scales. Measures water weight, BMI etc etc. Great tool

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