Most people only rely on weight scale to see what they've been doing with their exercise, even though you can use it as the sign to see progress, it's not the only one of course.
Turns out some indicators are there to show the development from your training progress with more accurate.
Of course you can use such accurate method and free yourself from measuring the weight as the only method to do.
Moreover, it must important to see if weight alone is not actually ideal as main indicator.
Since weight "composition" are affected by many factors like muscle mass and water inside body.
Hence the number of scale sometimes fail to show the actual number that you really want to see.
With the exercise routine, the body can lose the fat and build more muscle mass.
Since muscle mass are more dense, then the number on scale may look stuck, even though your body composition already changed.
Another progress to notice is the stamina, the strength and also your flexibility, which are of course can't be measured with weight scale.
Of course those aspect are important factors you must consider in general.
Once again, you don't want to focus with the one indicator only.
Now some method you can choose to track the progress, one of them is with body fat percentage to measure.
This percentage gives you a clue about body composition with more accurate instead of body weight.
Such method can help you see the changes of body to body fat and muscle mass.
There are certain tools that are made for that, even though they are not 100 percent accurate, they can still give a hint about your trend on the progress.
By understanding about the term of body composition then the effectiveness of your meal plan and exercise can be measured accurately.
You can also measure the VO2 max which is according to Webmd, it is used to measure how the body can utilize oxygen while in the intense activity.
This method is commonly used on pro athletes to test their fitness level.
The higher VO2 max is, then body can also produce energy with more efficient too.
You can use certain tracker or special test in the sport clinic and hospital.
To measure your strength can be done by seeing how you perform the basic movement like squat.
Yes the ideal approach as the measurement to use for the whole development of your strength.
You can also write down the max weights you can lift up and the number of repetition you are able to do.
Such data can be used mainly as the indicator and track the progress of training better.
The heart rate recovery is another thing to use as a method, and it can help see how fast your hear beat goes back to normal level after doing the exercise.
While your body is active because of exercise, heart beat will increase and will decrease gradually as you are recovering the body.
