Measuring your success.

Do you weigh yourself?

How else do you check your progress?

It's wouldn't be hard to become disheartened because one measurement stops or goes in a different direction, even though you might be doing better on something else in your fitness. Here are the multiple ways to measure your success. 

1. Body data scales - measure weight, body fat and other vitals with body scales. My tips, take the body fat readings with a pinch of salt as each scales you use can come up different. You can record the other stats if you want but weight and body fat will let you know if you have stopped losing weight and started gaining muscle (weight will go up but fat will stay down)

2. Pictures - a shirtless side shot and front shot can help you gauge your progress through time. Many people will notice your body changes for you, especially if you haven't seen them in a while. My tip is have someone take the shot (it's easier) and take another comparison shot a month later. Compare your photos and see the difference. 

3. Tests - test yourself. You can see your fitness progress in another way, start by setting up a measurable test. Jogging a particular speed and see how long you can jog for. Then take the test again in a couple of weeks time. Did you do better? My tip would be to make a few tests to check yourself on a few levels, body weight exercises make good testing points. 

4. Measuring - you can measure specific body parts to also see a difference in the hard work you have been putting in. Measure arms, waist and other areas that you want to see change in. My tip would be to compare your measuring results monthly, too close together and you may be disappointed by the seemingly minimal results. 

5. Strength - record your resistance training to monitor strength gains. Recording your progress will help you see how far you have come and also what you need to achieve next time, or push past if you feel the need!

You can see then that there is more than just the kilos that can tell you how your fitness is going. Measuring even two of these can help you keep a better track of your fitness progress. 

Keep measuring and monitoring and be prepared to change if something isn't showing results. 

How do you measure up?