These readouts are a lot to deal with. Mine were all bad (in the red part of a green-to-red scale), along with numbers (like pounds of body fat or body water, or skeletal muscle). How bad were these numbers? Should I freak out? Samsung takes the data and imports it into the Samsung Health app, and charts the results over time. I can see my progress (or stasis), and…what then? Samsung doesn’t really help interpret what it all means, or how concerned I should be. What workouts should I do next?
New sensors are always a challenge like this. After all, blood oxygen readings (which aren’t medically accurate) were all the rage with Apple, Samsung and Fitbit last year, and I found that I basically started ignoring the data. Fitbit’s electrical-based EDA stress sensor on its Sense watch last year showed possible signs of stress in spot-check scans, but I never found myself using it much and never knew what to make of those results, either. Samsung’s body analysis tool feels intimidating and, for me, discouraging. I started to avoid it, because I already know I’m way too overweight.
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