8 Easy Methods to Measure Your Fitness Progress
When you want to achieve the best results possible with your health and fitness, you need a way to measure your fitness progress. Sure, you could look in the mirror and use what you see as your way to measure, but seeing actual numbers is the best way to check precisely how well (or not) you’re coming along. In the mirror, you have no true comparison—it’s simply you at the moment. Did you lose weight? Did you gain weight? This article will show you some great ways to see how you’re progressing.
1. Measurements
A great way to figure out if you’re heading in the right direction is to take measurements from different sites on your body using a tape measure. Now, this doesn’t mean go out and pick up a Craftsman utility tape measure as if you’re going to cut lumber, they make specific tape measures that are pliable such as an alteration tape measure where it can bend with your body and give more precise readings. Use sites such as the upper arm, shoulders, chest, back, waist, hips, thighs, and calves to help understand where you are either losing body fat if you’re cutting or putting on muscle if you are bulking. This is an easy way to measure your fitness progress.
2. Scale
Another way to measure your fitness progress is through the use of a scale. I have a love/hate relationship with scales. While they give you your weight, they can’t take into account for water weight, lean muscle mass, bone mass, etc. You could jump on the scale and have lost body fat and gained lean muscle, but the only thing it will tell you is that your weight increased. Sure, they have the body fat bathroom scales that some people use to see exactly where weight fluctuations came from, but they are generally way off the mark when it comes to accuracy. It’s also common to lose weight and put on muscle and have the scale tell you there’s no change yet you know you’ve been busting your hump all week and stuck to your diet without any cheating. So, take what the scale says with a grain of salt regardless of the model you have.
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