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Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by bretthopper »

This seems like it exists just because it can. It basically does 2 things:

1. Fat % of a area/muscle group

2. Muscle "quality"

To address each:

1. One of the most accepted truths in health is that you can't spot reduce fat. There's no point in determining the fat % in a part of the body instead of overall since you can't just reduce the fat in one area. You can only reduce your TOTAL body fat.

2. I'm not sure how muscle quality is any better than just knowing how much weight you can lift. For example, if you really want to know the "quality" of your biceps, just track and measure how much you can curl. Of course everyone who lifts already does this.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by jcl »

jose-skulpt wrote: post #20

@wil421 The Skulpt Aim is actually unlike any other device on the market. It uses a technique called Electrical Impedance Myography that my co-founder Dr. Seward Rutkove began developing over a decade ago at Harvard Medical School. Four years ago we combined his background in neurology with my engineering background to refine this technology and develop a system that not only gives you information about your fat cont…

Please use the "reply" link under each comment to reply. It is otherwise very difficult to follow conversations.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by foobarqux »

jose-skulpt wrote: post #17

@biscarch All great questions. Muscle quality (MQ) is a measure of your muscle's strength and definition. Leaner, stronger muscles are characterized by having larger muscle fibers with less fatty tissue infiltrated. MQ correlates strongly to weight-normalized strength and as you exercise and get stronger and leaner, you'll see your MQ go up. At this moment, we can't tease out the differences between different types o…

> We think this product will be extremely useful to high-level athletes since it will allow you to optimize your training by quantitatively measuring and tracking the impact of different exercise regiments on your muscles. You'll be able to see when you're plateauing, for example, so you know it's time to incorporate some muscle confusion.

You know literally nothing about strength training.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by biscarch »

foobarqux wrote: post #24
jose-skulpt wrote: post #17

@biscarch All great questions. Muscle quality (MQ) is a measure of your muscle's strength and definition. Leaner, stronger muscles are characterized by having larger muscle fibers with less fatty tissue infiltrated. MQ correlates strongly to weight-normalized strength and as you exercise and get stronger and leaner, you'll see your MQ go up. At this moment, we can't tease out the differences between different types o…

> We think this product will be extremely useful to high-level athletes since it will allow you to optimize your training by quantitatively measuring and tracking the impact of different exercise regiments on your muscles. You'll be able to see when you're plateauing, for example, so you know it's time to incorporate some muscle confusion. You know literally nothing about strength training.

Yea, this is really a bunch of pseudo-speak. I want to see a paper, a formula and access to (my) raw data on the device or this is going to be a glorified bodyfat tester for me.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by bcbrown »

jose-skulpt wrote: post #12

Hi everyone. I'm the CEO of Skulpt and happy to answer your questions: @bcbrown The Skulpt Aim is "aimed" at anyone who wants to improve or maintain their fitness. Prior to developing this consumer device, we developed a medical one that uses some of the same core technology and is actually being used at more than 30 of the nation's top hospitals in clinical research. The Skulpt Aim, however, is not intended to diagn…

It's a lot easier to track conversations if you use the "reply" link below a question to answer it.

I want to "improve or maintain" my fitness. I'm a powerlifter who occasionally competes. I'm receptive to this device, but I simply don't understand how I would use it. I care about absolute strength. I can test my absolute strength by lifting something heavy. What does this device tell me, that I would find useful, that I can't find out by lifting something heavy? An abstract score isn't useful.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by georgemcbay »

I'm not sure what's worse, the infomercial quality says-nothing marketing speak about what this thing is and does (both on the site and here -- "muscle quality"? ORLY?), or the insistence on trying to treat HN threads like twitter with top level @whoever responses.

Either way (and I appreciate my response to this may be a bit over the top), I've never wanted to downvote an HN front page story as much as I want to downvote this one.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by bcbrown »

foobarqux wrote: post #24
jose-skulpt wrote: post #17

@biscarch All great questions. Muscle quality (MQ) is a measure of your muscle's strength and definition. Leaner, stronger muscles are characterized by having larger muscle fibers with less fatty tissue infiltrated. MQ correlates strongly to weight-normalized strength and as you exercise and get stronger and leaner, you'll see your MQ go up. At this moment, we can't tease out the differences between different types o…

> We think this product will be extremely useful to high-level athletes since it will allow you to optimize your training by quantitatively measuring and tracking the impact of different exercise regiments on your muscles. You'll be able to see when you're plateauing, for example, so you know it's time to incorporate some muscle confusion. You know literally nothing about strength training.

Agreed. I would recommend bringing on board someone who's worked as a strength coach, or has some sort of expertise around long-term training regimens. Specifically, "muscle confusion" isn't a real thing. Have you spoken with any high-level athletes?

And it's easy to see if you're plateauing. That's when your performance plateaus. If there's any published research showing that this device has predictive power, that's a different matter. But I imagine that tracking cortisol/testosterone levels over the long term, plus the immediate hormonal response to an exercise stimulus (over the 0-48 hour window), would be much more effective than any sort of impedance-based approach. Plateaus and overtraining are more hormonal than muscular.

Re: Skulpt Aim: Device to measure muscle fitness with one touch

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Post by bcbrown »

georgemcbay wrote: post #27

I'm not sure what's worse, the infomercial quality says-nothing marketing speak about what this thing is and does (both on the site and here -- "muscle quality"? ORLY?), or the insistence on trying to treat HN threads like twitter with top level @whoever responses. Either way (and I appreciate my response to this may be a bit over the top), I've never wanted to downvote an HN front page story as much as I want to dow…

The top-level @replies are just a symptom of someone new to the community who doesn't understand how to use this site. The content-free marketing speak is less forgiveable.
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