Most fitness goals in Singapore start with one number — body weight. That number tells you almost nothing useful. A scale cannot tell you how much of your weight is muscle, how much is fat, or how much is water retention. It cannot tell you whether you are gaining muscle while losing fat at the same time. The scale just reads weight.
This is where an inbody scan singapore clients actually trust makes a difference. RAW Active uses a medical-grade InBody 120 to give you a precise body composition assessment in under five minutes — and that single test changes how you plan your training, your nutrition, and your recovery.
This guide explains exactly how the scan works, what each metric means, who benefits most, and what a healthy weight actually looks like for your body type.
Your total body weight is the sum of several different tissues: skeletal muscle, body fat, body water, protein, and minerals. Two people of the same height, weight, and sex can look completely different because their internal mix of those tissues is different. The scale rounds them all into one number — the same number — even though their bodies are not the same.
An InBody scan separates those tissues and reports them individually. You see kilograms of skeletal muscle. You see a percentage of body fat. You see how much of your water sits inside your cells (intracellular water, or ICW) versus outside them (extracellular water, or ECW). You see whether your lean mass is balanced between your arms, legs, and trunk.
This is why an inbody scan singapore clients rely on is the gold standard for tracking real progress: it shows the part of your body that is actually changing, rather than a misleading total.
Kilograms of muscle in each of five body segments (right arm, left arm, trunk, right leg, left leg). Flags asymmetries and segments under-built relative to your height.
Kilograms and percentage of fat in your body. Separates subcutaneous fat (the layer just under the skin) from visceral fat (the fat stored around organs and linked to higher cardiometabolic risk).
Your body fat as a percentage of total weight. A more accurate health marker than BMI alone.
Broken into intracellular water (ICW) and extracellular water (ECW). Useful when you are tracking hydration or investigating fluid balance issues.
Both feed into bone density and metabolic capacity.
Calories your body burns at rest. Drives precise nutrition planning.
Fat around the organs; correlated with blood pressure, lipid profile, and active health risk markers.
A quick indicator of central fat distribution.
The InBody 120 sends a very low, painless electrical current through your body. Different tissues carry that current differently. Fat resists the current. Water conducts it. Muscle is highly conductive because of its water content. By measuring the resistance at multiple frequencies through your hands and feet, the device estimates each tissue compartment.
This is the same technology used in hospitals and performance labs. The InBody 120 is a medical-grade model, not a consumer body fat composition scale you can buy online. The difference shows up in the repeatability of the numbers — which is what makes tracking progress across months meaningful.
PBF is the single most useful health marker on the report. It answers the question: of all my body weight, how much is fat? For a healthy weight and a population-level baseline, aim for PBF within 10–20% (males) or 18–28% (females). These ranges are not aesthetic targets — they are the ranges associated with lower risk of cardiometabolic disease, better insulin sensitivity, and easier long-term weight maintenance.
SMM is what gives you strength, mobility, posture, and resilience against injury. The InBody report breaks SMM into five body segments so you can see, for example, if your left leg lags behind your right leg after an old injury. That detail lets your coach correct imbalances instead of just adding load.
Hydration affects body fat readings by 1–3% on a single day. Looking at TBW on your scan lets you know whether an elevated fat reading is water noise or real fat gain. ICW versus ECW ratio also flags inflammation or fluid retention that the scale never would.
Visceral fat is the type that does the most damage. It sits deep in the abdomen, wraps around the organs, and is independently linked to elevated blood pressure, higher triglycerides, and reduced insulin response. Your scan reads visceral fat on a 1–20 scale. Anything above 13 is a flag worth addressing with your trainer and your doctor.
The numbers on your InBody report flow into other active health decisions:
The first scan establishes your baseline. The second scan, three months later, shows you what actually changed.
This is where the value compounds. A 2 kg drop on the scale could be water, fat, or muscle. A repeat scan tells you exactly which one — and tells your coach what to adjust. Without serial scans, you and your coach are guessing. With them, you are working from evidence.
Most RAW Active clients re-scan every 8–12 weeks. That cadence catches meaningful trends while filtering out week-to-week noise from hydration, sleep, and training stress.
A body composition assessment is a test that shows how much of your weight is muscle, fat, water, protein, and minerals, and how those tissues are distributed across your body. It is more useful than weight alone because it tells you what is changing.
It uses Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis — a small electrical current that flows through different tissues at different rates. The scan estimates each tissue compartment against your height and weight.
Yes. Consumer scales use a single frequency and infer your body fat from your feet alone. The InBody 120 uses multiple frequencies through both hands and feet, gives segment-by-segment results, and is calibrated to a medical standard.
Every 8–12 weeks is the recommended cadence for most people. That is enough time to see real change without being too close to read noise.
A healthy weight is not the same for every body. It is the weight at which your PBF, visceral fat, and lean mass land inside healthy ranges. The InBody report defines that for you.
It cannot diagnose, but it provides context. Visceral fat levels correlate with blood pressure patterns and metabolic risk markers. A coach at RAW Active uses the report alongside your physician’s input.
No. Walk-ins are accepted at the Orchard Towers studio, though booking ahead avoids wait times.
The scan takes less than five minutes. The report is yours to keep. It is the single best baseline you can get before you start — or restart — any training programme.
Book your body composition assessment at RAW Active today or visit us at 400 Orchard Road, #04-23/24 Orchard Towers, Singapore.
