A big mistake that a lot of bodybuilders make is to track their bodybuilding progress only via the use of a scale.? A scale can only tell you how much weight you have gained or lost but it can never tell you how much of it is fat and how much of it is muscle.? Thus, a simple solution to this problem is to have bi-weekly weight-ins coupled with caliper readings.?
Skin fold measurements that are properly executed will give you a very good approximation of what your body fat percentage is so that in that manner you can calculate your lean mass and your fat mass.??By calculating?those values on the days that you weight yourself? then you will be able to know whether you are going up in muscle and/or losing fat.?
In order to get the most accurate measurements try to make sure that your body composition day (as I call it) is on the same day and at the same time of the day all the time.? In this manner, you keep most things constant and you get the most accurate results.
In addition to weighing yourself and getting caliper readings, I also recommend taking digital pictures on this same day so that you can see visually how you are changing.? In that way, you can address symmetry and unbalance issues.
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