Me vs. Me

The arrival of our new Hume Body Pod last week spawned my latest wave of human performance monitoring. This smart scale, touted as a practical (and affordable) home DEXA-scan, spits out a plethora of body composition data (body fat %, muscle %, metabolic age, and much more). 

As someone who trains and weighs in daily, I was tired of relying on body mass as my only means of health assessment. The inability to differentiate a pound of muscle from a pound of fat, left me assuming the worst, and perpetually critical about any weight gain.

I’m almost two weeks into tracking my composition, and I’m loving the metrics and the baseline that they provide. While I don’t necessarily trust the glowingly low body fat numbers it gives me, I am appreciating the day to day comparisons. 

I believe that your only meaningful competition is with the person you were yesterday, and using my new gadget I finally have a way to compete. 

• Now that’s a peak ethos.