Are you tracking your progress?
If you are not, are you making progress?
Is it too much effort to log your workouts or track your food? If this is the way you think then you are probably not making much progress!
Why do I say that?
When you want to progress with something in the gym, let’s say for example your strength on bench press (for the bro’s) do you test your strength? If I can bench 75kg for 1 rep at the start of January and I test again at the start of April and I have improved my bench by 5kg, what helped me improve?
In 3 months you have done something to increase your bench by 5kg, but if you don’t know what you did how do you expect to replicate it?
If you want to lose some fat, and you don’t track or at least keep an eye on the amount of calories you take in and all you do is step on the scales each week and see your weight fluctuate how do you know what is stopping you? I don’t think anyone should rely on weighing scales but let’s just say that this the only way you have to check your progress. Then one month you see some progress, and you drop 2kg. If you don’t know what you did that month, how can you expect to continue seeing progress?
Tracking progress and taking note of what helps you progress ASWELL as what hinders progress are amazing tools that will help you not only reach your goals but help you stay on track.
At AdePT we get everyone to track what they do in the gym and they follow a programme designed to help them progress. We also review and keep an eye on food logs, and make tweaks to help our clients keep improving.
When you see progress it helps keep you motivated, if you don’t check your progress (through testing, measurements, photographs) you won’t know if you made progress one week and then undid it the next week.
Don’t go round and round in circles, train with a purpose and a goal!
Kev
