Measuring yourself against others is often a very popular human trait, but doesn’t often get you anywhere in health and fitness terms.
There are too many variables between different individuals to get reliable comparisons, this is why its important to measure yourself against…………….you!
Competing with yourself is always healthy because you are then focusing on continually raising your standards.
If your waist is 40 inches, then getting it down to 32-34 inches is a significant achievement.
If your weight is 21 stone, and you want to get down to a much healthier 16 stone, then this will be an achievement to be proud of.
If you have developed a significant amount of more energy in your life, compared to the days when you didn’t exercise or eat well, then of course you are much healthier and likely to achieve much more in your life.
These are important factors to look at when deciding what you are getting out of your programme.
If you are doing the same programme, or not in a programme, or getting hurt in whatever programme you’re doing, then you need to stop right there and question what you are doing, and why you are doing it!!!
I consider it standard to measure an individual’s waist and hips, to take their body fat, to measure their heart strength and blood pressure, these are vital indicators for me, so i can formulate a programme to work for them.
Everyone has to start somewhere but its just as important to make THE RIGHT START!
Nothing worse than summoning up the courage to exercise, and then someone giving you a programme that is not well designed, or even worse one that they have taken off the internet! This is a sign of someone who doesn’t care about your goals, they don’t care how much you improve or if at all!
Take command today, make the most of your exercise efforts and try and have a big strong finish until the end of the summer!
