Your InBody Scan: What the Results Really Mean
An InBody scan offers a detailed snapshot of your body composition, providing insights far beyond just weight. Understanding how to read these results is essential for monitoring your progress and making informed decisions about your health. In this guide, we’ll walk you through each section of the InBody report and explain what the numbers mean for your body, fitness goals, and overall well-being.
How to Prepare for Your InBody Scan
To get the most accurate and meaningful results from your InBody scan, proper preparation is key. Following a few simple guidelines can help ensure your body composition analysis is as precise and reliable as possible.
Tips for Optimal Accuracy
For the most accurate scan results, please follow these recommendations:
Avoid eating or drinking for at least 3 hours before your scan.
Use the restroom beforehand to eliminate any excess fluid that may skew results.
Wear minimal or form-fitting clothing to allow for the most precise measurement of body composition.
Following these steps will help provide a true baseline and allow you to confidently track your progress over time.
Deciphering the InBody Scan: A Step-by-Step Guide
This scan provides a comprehensive analysis of your body, including muscle mass, fat content, and water weight. By decoding the results of the InBody scan, you can gain valuable insights into your fitness levels and make informed decisions about your health goals.
Reading Your Body Composition - Your body composition data from the InBody scan includes metrics such as body fat percentage, muscle mass, and water weight. Understanding these measurements can help you track changes in your body composition over time and tailor your fitness and nutrition plan accordingly.
Analyzing Muscle-Fat Analysis - Analyzing the muscle-fat analysis from the InBody scan allows you to see the distribution of muscle and fat in different parts of your body. This information can help you target specific areas for muscle building or fat loss, depending on your health and fitness goals.
Reading Your Body Composition
Your body fat percentage is a crucial metric to monitor as it indicates the amount of fat in your body relative to your total weight. A healthy range for body fat percentage varies based on age and gender, but generally falls between 15-20% for women and 10-15% for men. Keeping your body fat percentage within a healthy range is important for overall health and can lower the risk of various diseases.
Tracking your muscle mass is imperative for evaluating your strength and physical fitness. Increasing muscle mass can boost metabolism, improve athletic performance, and enhance overall body composition. By monitoring changes in your muscle mass over time, you can adjust your workout routine and nutrition to support muscle growth.
Analyzing Muscle-Fat Analysis
Analyzing the muscle-fat analysis from the InBody scan provides a detailed breakdown of muscle distribution in your body. It shows the amount of muscle mass in each limb and segment, highlighting any muscle strength imbalances that may exist. By identifying these imbalances, you can focus on targeted exercises to improve muscle symmetry and overall strength.
This precise analysis of muscle and fat distribution can also help in setting realistic fitness goals. If you aim to increase muscle mass in a specific area or reduce fat in certain regions, the muscle-fat analysis will guide you in creating a tailored workout and nutrition plan to achieve your desired results.
Understanding Your InBody Scan Results at Concord Longevity Medicine
At Concord Longevity Medicine, we use advanced InBody scanning to provide a detailed view of your body composition—far beyond what a scale or BMI alone can show. This scan gives valuable insights into your health and progress, and our team is here to help you interpret it with clarity and confidence.
RN Sarah Fox, who is extensively trained in interpreting InBody reports, will personally review your scan with you, explain what each number means, and help you understand how to use this data to achieve your health and fitness goals.
Weight and BMI: More Than Just Numbers
Two key metrics you’ll notice on your InBody report are weight and Body Mass Index (BMI). While commonly used, these numbers don’t tell the full story on their own.
What to Keep in Mind About Weight
Rather than focusing on the number on the scale, Sarah will help you understand the quality of that weight—how much is fat, how much is muscle, and what’s changing over time.
Look at trends over time, not daily fluctuations.
Consider your muscle mass and fat distribution before making assumptions.
We’ll help you understand whether your weight is working for or against your health goals.
The Role of BMI
BMI is often used as a screening tool, but it doesn’t account for muscle mass, bone structure, or inflammation. At Concord Longevity Medicine, we use BMI in context, alongside other, more meaningful data from your scan.
Muscle, Strength & Skeletal Muscle Mass
Your skeletal muscle mass is one of the most important metrics on the InBody scan. It represents your metabolically active tissue—the more you have, the better your metabolic health, strength, and insulin sensitivity.
RN Sarah Fox will help you:
Track muscle gain over time
Understand how strength training and protein intake affect these numbers
Set personalized, realistic muscle-building goals based on your age, activity, and body type
We’ll also help you identify imbalances in muscle distribution—whether due to injury, posture, or training patterns—and create a plan to correct them.
Body Fat % and Visceral Fat: What’s Under the Surface
A key benefit of InBody analysis is knowing your body fat percentage—how much of your body is fat versus lean mass—and whether your visceral fat (fat around your organs) poses long-term health risks.
At Concord Longevity Medicine, we use these insights to:
Identify risks for chronic conditions like insulin resistance, heart disease, or PCOS
Monitor your fat loss over time in a healthy, sustainable way
Help you avoid extremes—too high or too low body fat can both be harmful
Healthy ranges vary by gender and age. Sarah will help you set the right targets for your body, not just an average.
Hydration and Segmental Water Balance
Your scan also measures intracellular and extracellular water, giving us a detailed picture of your hydration status, inflammation, and cell health.
This segmental water analysis can:
Detect imbalances in specific limbs or regions
Show whether you’re retaining fluid or dehydrated
Help fine-tune your nutrition and recovery plans
Hydration affects everything—from energy to weight to muscle function—and we’ll help you interpret the numbers to improve how you feel day-to-day.
Setting Goals and Tracking Progress
Your scan is a powerful baseline tool, not a final score. With regular follow-ups at Concord Longevity Medicine, we’ll help you:
Set SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-based)
Track improvements in strength, body fat %, and muscle balance
Make data-driven adjustments to your fitness and nutrition plan
Whether you’re aiming for fat loss, improved performance, or long-term vitality, your InBody scan gives us a roadmap—and we’re with you every step of the way.
Common Misconceptions We’ll Help You Clarify
We frequently hear patients say things like:
“Muscle weighs more than fat” — (actually, it’s just denser!)
“I haven’t lost weight, so nothing’s working” — (but you gained muscle and lost fat)
“BMI says I’m overweight” — (but your scan shows you’re lean and healthy)
These myths can be discouraging, but with RN Sarah Fox’s guidance, you’ll understand what truly matters—and what doesn’t.
Maintaining and Improving Your Results
Our focus isn’t just short-term change—it’s long-term transformation. Your InBody scan helps us build an evidence-based lifestyle plan that includes:
Sustainable nutrition based on real, whole foods
Regular movement and strength training
Recovery, sleep, stress management, and hormonal balance
With support from our team at Concord Longevity Medicine, you’ll stay accountable, motivated, and equipped to keep progressing—even through life’s ups and downs.
