Has anyone had one done there.? I dont know if I got an instructor who wasnt v. good. but I thought it was a bit of a waste of time.
the way they did the body fat or percentage was just by getting weighed. I know you didnt have to pay, so I suppose cant complain.
what did people think??
I have not been this year yet, has anything changed?

you would like to think that the free health check is being offered because FF care about the public and want to help. It is however just a cheap gimmick to get people into the gym spending money. I would guess that the scales are those cheap Rosemary Conely ones that give body fat % as well. Those scales are not always correct as can give some misleading figures as the amount of water you have in you can affect results (i.e. if you're just had a drink, results would be affected). These gyms should stop trying to pass themselves off as sports science clinics when they are not.

exactly.
I would have been happier to pay a bit of money and have a better one done.
but it was cheap rubbish.

I did notice the Argos body fat scales when I went today. They really aren't that accurate. If someone is very muscular it tends to read the muscle as fat (muscle weighs more than fat) so you could be really ripped but still get quite a high reading.
Body fat callipers are the best things to use, a slightly more technical version of the "pinching an inch" method. Accu Measure do the best ones.

Women naturally have a higher reading than men. I have a chart here that shows whether you are lean, ideal, average or above average. If you say which age bracket you're in (& reading - if you dare ;) ) & I can tell you where you are on the scale and whether it corrisponds with what they said.
The age brackets are:
up to 20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
51-55
56 & up

Did they check your heart rate or anything else ? Or was that it ? Not much of a health check eh :rolleyes: