8 best bathroom scales for a smarter way to track weight and fitness

Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, advice and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The best bathroom scales don’t just measure your body weight, they also detect a range of metrics, from your BMI, body fat percentage and muscle mass to your nerve health and heart rate. Smart scales use something called bioelectrical impedance analysis to send a safe electrical current from your bare feet through your body, encountering different levels of resistance when it travels through your muscle, fat and bone. Although scales that use BIA won’t give you precise measurements, they will still give you a good trend-line indication of whether your body fat and muscle mass is going up or down. How we tested the best bathroom scales open image in gallery We’ve tried and tested a range of the best bathroom scales We’ve been testing bathroom scales for several months, looking at how they track data, what smart features they have, how they look in our bathroom and how easy they are to use.