Benchmark workouts are a major consideration when it comes to all sorts of situations in your life.
Life isn’t always the same, things crop up, trips happen overseas, layoffs can happen for whatever reason, and the last thing you want to happen is not know where you are in physical and health terms full stop.
Easy ways off checking your health including buying a blood pressure machine, i like to do it every 4 weeks for everyone i train, sometimes more frequently for those who i am really concerned about.
In physical terms, you can measure your waist and hips once a month, you will need to be alarmed if your waist does go up, and then you can alter your diet and training programme to bring it back down.
The “benchmark workout” idea is one which i use every week on most people, and this lets us know straight away exactly where we are.
Someone i train who has been touring america for 3 months got his first workout in today. I put him on one of HIS benchmark workouts, and the results were quite staggering!
Bear in mind that this workout is one which he normally gets through without too much of a problem. It consists of around 300 press ups total in the workout split into 20’s at a time, some step sprints, some backward running up hills etc.
Today, he found it extremely tough indeed!
He has been used to doing 3 shows a day, which is demanding physically of course, but got used to the sugary cereals and breakfasts in the states, and the lack of genuinely plain, sugar free nutritious food that he was accustomed to has hurt his energy levels now he’s back to normal.
This has led to him becoming not so energetic now he is back home, and the benchmark workout reminded him exactly where he was!!!
If you don’t have standards you can measure against, then you will never know or appreciate where you are!!!
This is something to consider when you work out what level you want to be at!!!
