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Body scanning: Get a healthcheck

COVID-19 is driving huge consumer interest in health, creating the opportunity for operators (with the right kit) to offer body scanning and analysis. We look at some of the top options

Published in Health Club Management 2020 issue 8

Inbody

Sectors: medical, gyms, health clubs, corporate wellbeing

Clients include: BXR, Evolve Fitness

Number of kiosk options: five

Website: www.inbody.com

Founded by Dr Kichul Cha in 1996, InBody has grown from a small biotech startup in South Korea to a multinational corporation working in 80 countries.

The company works in the health and fitness and medical fields, providing accurate body composition data from easy-to-use devices. InBody’s flagship product is the research-grade InBody 770 (pictured top right), which goes beyond traditional body composition analysis and takes a deeper look into body water, offering two types of results sheets: body composition and body water.

Measures available:

(Standard) weight, total body water, dry lean mass, lean body mass, body fat mass, skeletal muscle mass, body mass index, percent body fat, segmental lean analysis, body composition history, body fat-lean body mass control, basal metabolic rate, impedance at each segment/ frequency. (Additional) Intracellular water, extracellular water, ecw/tbw analysis, visceral fat, segmental fat analysis, visceral fat area, segmental body water analysis, segmental ecw/tbw analysis, segmental icw analysis, segmental ecw analysis, leg lean mass, tbw/lbm, reactance, whole body and segmental phase angle

Impact of body composition on the immune system:

In light of the global pandemic, InBody has developed a paper with its Medical Application team to demonstrate the effects of healthy body composition on the immune system. You can download the paper free of charge at www.HCMmag.com/Inbodyimmune

Healthcheck Services

Sectors: gyms, health clubs, corporate wellbeing

Clients include: The Gym Group, Pure Gym

Number of kiosk options: nine

Measures available: weight, height, bodyfat, vascular, total body water, muscle mass, physique rating, bone mineral mass, basal metabolic rate, metabolic age, visceral fat

Website: www.healthcheckservices.co.uk

Healthcheck Services has been operating for over 30 years, providing kiosks for all levels of operation. Corevue 360 uses multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis, to provide insight into body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone density and metabolic age, enabling the delivery of a full body composition analysis in 15 seconds. The Corevue 360 also has automatic height measurement and comes with both card and coin payment options. It’s available via purchase, rental or profit share and enables on-screen advertising, so it can function as a profit centre. The kiosk responds to voice and text instructions and comes in a range of options, including hands-only, feet-only and hand and feet, providing full segmental body composition analysis.

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Body scanning: Get a healthcheck

COVID-19 is driving huge consumer interest in health, creating the opportunity for operators (with the right kit) to offer body scanning and analysis. We look at some of the top options

Published in Health Club Management 2020 issue 8

Inbody

Sectors: medical, gyms, health clubs, corporate wellbeing

Clients include: BXR, Evolve Fitness

Number of kiosk options: five

Website: www.inbody.com

Founded by Dr Kichul Cha in 1996, InBody has grown from a small biotech startup in South Korea to a multinational corporation working in 80 countries.

The company works in the health and fitness and medical fields, providing accurate body composition data from easy-to-use devices. InBody’s flagship product is the research-grade InBody 770 (pictured top right), which goes beyond traditional body composition analysis and takes a deeper look into body water, offering two types of results sheets: body composition and body water.

Measures available:

(Standard) weight, total body water, dry lean mass, lean body mass, body fat mass, skeletal muscle mass, body mass index, percent body fat, segmental lean analysis, body composition history, body fat-lean body mass control, basal metabolic rate, impedance at each segment/ frequency. (Additional) Intracellular water, extracellular water, ecw/tbw analysis, visceral fat, segmental fat analysis, visceral fat area, segmental body water analysis, segmental ecw/tbw analysis, segmental icw analysis, segmental ecw analysis, leg lean mass, tbw/lbm, reactance, whole body and segmental phase angle

Impact of body composition on the immune system:

In light of the global pandemic, InBody has developed a paper with its Medical Application team to demonstrate the effects of healthy body composition on the immune system. You can download the paper free of charge at www.HCMmag.com/Inbodyimmune

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Sectors: gyms, health clubs, corporate wellbeing

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Measures available: weight, height, bodyfat, vascular, total body water, muscle mass, physique rating, bone mineral mass, basal metabolic rate, metabolic age, visceral fat

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