The Importance of Keeping Track Of Your Measurements During Waist Training

Why is it important to keep a log/record (of measurements) of your progress while waist training? There are reasons for it. One may keep hitting the gym and train so much without keeping track of the measurements he or she reached so far and then suffer the consequences later on. So read the following points and enjoy the benefits of keeping records.

• Use your log as an observatory chart. It does not necessarily mean to make a strict, well-organized, heavy statistical record. Having just a simple one will make you observe your progress of how much weight or inches you lost (or were not able to lose) in a week, a month, etc. Record your initial weight, measure your waist, jot down the food you eat, and write down your training schedule, mass gained/mass lost at the end of the week, target weight or measurement, change of shirt size, etc. You can even add your remarks or comments at the end of the week or month — stuff such as “pass” or “fail.”

• It will help you find the right diet. Keeping track of your progress makes you choose/alter/increase/decrease your diet depending on the need. For example, in week three of your waist training, you decide to add yogurt every morning in your diet instead of just an apple and orange juice for breakfast. Yogurt is beneficial to your abs and is high in protein. Eggs (with the right servings) will do you good too because they help minimize your hunger throughout the day. An inadequate diet may result in weight loss maybe but your muscles will be affected as well. You don’t want a slim-looking body that is weak, right? Adjust your diet so that it will make you lose fat — not the muscles and definitely not your strength. Plus, you are working out, so your body demands protein-rich foods.

• You can choose the suitable training program. Just like finding the right diet, a record of your waist training progress can help you choose the right training program that fits you. As you progress, your training program or routine changes. If you are doing 15 curl-ups per day, then you can probably make that 20 or 25 curl-ups per day next week. Your record/log will help you to track the training program that works best for you and which ones that do not.

• Make a new log every time you change your training program. If you have been doing curl-ups for months then later on decided that you would do hula-hoops this time, or a mix of the two, you will still keep recording your progress — only in a new log to avoid confusion. But do not throw away those old records because you are still going to need them in the future: as a reference so you would know which training program, routine, or diet worked best for you and which ones gave you a failing result. Also, you can use your old logs as motivation to keep going with your waist training, especially for those records with success written all over them.

• Keep the record on a weekly or twice-a-month basis but not on daily basis. First of all, having a daily record is tiring. The total calories you ate today will be different to the total calories you will eat tomorrow. Plus, it may negatively affect your mindset about keeping things on track. You may end up scrutizining and obsessing over every slight little alteration. You might become so self-conscious to the extent that, say, you lost weight yesterday by 2 kilograms and then you are freaking out today because you gained twice the amount of what you lost last time — resulting in hysterically and abruptly decreasing your diet or increasing your workouts sessions. Thus, it’s best to measure once a week or every other week at the same time (preferably on mornings before breakfast).

The list of reasons for keeping a log is not really a long one but you will see its beneficial effects. Recording your progress, and especially if your target has been reached, could also be a mental trophy of how nicely you’ve done so far in your waist training.