How I Stay Fit .com | Dan Marashi

Tracking progress. Don’t make this mistake! http://howistayfit.com/focus/tracking-progress/ How to track progress.  Don’t make this mistake! Tracking progress is so important!  If you’ve been putting in the hard work with your training and nutrition, you’ll be doing yourself an injustice not to track your progress.  How will you know if your body is heading in the right direction if you are not measuring anything? “What gets measured gets done” There is a saying you may have heard before: “what gets measured gets done”.  I believe this to be true.  If your goal is to set a new personal best time for running 5k, then you better be timing yourself every time you run 5k in training.  Likewise, if your goal is to gain muscle mass, then you better be tracking progress of your weights, reps, and sets in your resistance training sessions. As with training and exercise, food intake will also be useful to track for many people.  I’ve already spok...

Why you should be tracking your body fat percentage and how to do it yourself! http://howistayfit.com/diet/body-fat/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GyhLTk8-4Y&t=101s Body fat for weight management When it comes to losing (or gaining) weight, measuring body fat percentage is an awesome tool.  But I don’t think it is utilised as much as it should be. When following a fitness program, where the goal is to lose fat or to be build muscle, everyone seems to be obsessed with their body weight.  They want to know what the scales says!  But the problem with this is sometimes your body can be making positive changes, but your body weight will stay the same.  Or you might be trying to lose fat, but your weight may even INCREASE!  Occasionally you can be losing body fat but gaining muscle at the same time (this is often termed a “Body Recomposition”).  If so, your body weight measurements won’t demonstrate that any changes have happened!  This is...