What is on the report
Body composition: total weight broken into body water, protein, minerals and fat mass. Muscle and fat: skeletal muscle mass and body fat mass against normal ranges for your height. Obesity analysis: BMI, body fat percentage and visceral fat level. Segmental lean and fat analysis: how much muscle and fat sits in each arm, each leg and the trunk, which shows imbalances and where change is happening. Body water: intracellular and extracellular water and their ratio, a marker of fluid retention, inflammation and recovery. Phase angle: a measure of cell membrane health that rises with fitness and good nutrition. Basal metabolic rate: the calories your body uses at rest, calculated from lean mass rather than a generic formula. Body composition history: a graph of previous scans.
How to read it
The most useful numbers for most people are skeletal muscle mass, body fat mass, visceral fat level and the extracellular water ratio. Weight matters less than the direction of muscle and fat. The segmental analysis is where rehabilitation and training imbalances show. The history page is where progress lives.
What it is not
A diagnosis. Body composition is information that guides training, nutrition and treatment; it does not identify disease. Where a result is unusual, such as a high extracellular water ratio, we may suggest a GP visit or a blood test.
At Omnia
Scans at our Chiswick clinic are followed by a walk-through of the report with our team, and the digital report is sent to you. Where you are on a programme with us, the report shapes what happens next: training adjustments, nutrition changes, or adding treatments such as compression therapy where fluid is the issue.