have you ever wondered why you’re
spending hours at the gym without seeing
results hi I’m Veronica watchmojo.com
and today and Nick Robinson discusses
the steps we need to take to reach our
fitness goals and it all begins with an
assessment and a strategy so if you’ve
now decided that you want to get into
shape and get healthier what’s the first
step to take well the first thing you
need to do is understand your status quo
where are you starting from and the
second thing is you really need to have
a good idea of where you want to go too
so what are your goals and then you have
to have someone really knowledgeable who
can put together a strategy to get you
from where you are to where you want to
go you start off with a fitness
assessment so we want to know 0 to 3
months what you want to be doing we have
a long list of categories and then we
look at your long-term goals three
months to a year once you’ve gone
through the goal-setting questionnaire
we go through a wellness history and
medical history questionnaire so we
really understand what is very specific
to you where you’ve been any injuries
you may or may not have then we measure
you so we measure how much muscle you
have your fat percentage your bone mass
we measure your hydration levels your
metabolic age once we have your body
composition we take your circumference
readings and we also take your picture
from the front from the side the other
side and from the back so that we have a
real memory of where you started not
just in terms of the way you looked but
also in terms of your posture because as
we go forward and train somebody we want
to make sure that their posture is
improving too and then the last thing
that we do is we measure their vo2 which
is their cardiovascular health once we
have a full picture of the way they are
we put together the strategy and you
mentioned all these measurements that
you’re taking why can’t you just look at
the numbers on the scale if someone
tells me I want to lose 10 pounds no
problem I can make you lose 10 pounds by
tomorrow I’m going to take you over to
my sauna I’m going to take away all your
water and I’m going to make you sweat
10 pounds or I can calorie reduce you
and on the scale you’ll have lost 10
pounds but you’ll have lost bone and
you’ll have lost muscle and i’ll
probably have dehydrated you in the
process as well most people what they
want to do is improve their body
composition and that you just can’t
measure by looking at the scale so does
that mean that to people who weigh the
same aren’t exactly in the same health
condition I see hundreds of people in my
fitness assessments every year and I can
see someone who’s exactly the same age
the same height and have the same weight
and one can be obese and one can be
extremely fit muscle weighs more than
fat so someone who is small dense really
muscular but has low body fat could
weigh the same as someone who’s
extremely obese who has a lot of fat and
low muscle why is it important to have
one before you start training well I see
a lot of people who train really really
hard in the gym and some people never
meet their goals as I was really
important that if you’re going to be
spending time in a gym you want that
time to be productive they have to take
several factors into consideration in
order to meet their fitness goals and
that needs to include what you eat what
you drink what your exercise plan is how
you sleep rest and recuperate and
consistency what’s the difference
between a realistic goal and an
unrealistic goal usually it’s the time
frame someone tells me they want to lose
20 pounds to be healthy and we agree
together that 20 pounds is a good goal
if they tell me they want to lose it by
next weekend for a wedding unfortunately
I can’t make that happen we also have to
talk about commitment someone could tell
me i really want to lose this weight or
i want to put on this amount of muscle
and they want to do with in a great
amount of time frame but if they only
come to the gym once a month it’s never
going to happen if they don’t adjust
their nutrition it’s never going to
happen so it’s really important that
when people are working towards a goal
that they have a strategy that
encapsulates all of those elements and
it’s really important that they’re
consistent about it it’s not enough to
have a strategy you actually have to do
it thank you very much thank you
spending hours at the gym without seeing
results hi I’m Veronica watchmojo.com
and today and Nick Robinson discusses
the steps we need to take to reach our
fitness goals and it all begins with an
assessment and a strategy so if you’ve
now decided that you want to get into
shape and get healthier what’s the first
step to take well the first thing you
need to do is understand your status quo
where are you starting from and the
second thing is you really need to have
a good idea of where you want to go too
so what are your goals and then you have
to have someone really knowledgeable who
can put together a strategy to get you
from where you are to where you want to
go you start off with a fitness
assessment so we want to know 0 to 3
months what you want to be doing we have
a long list of categories and then we
look at your long-term goals three
months to a year once you’ve gone
through the goal-setting questionnaire
we go through a wellness history and
medical history questionnaire so we
really understand what is very specific
to you where you’ve been any injuries
you may or may not have then we measure
you so we measure how much muscle you
have your fat percentage your bone mass
we measure your hydration levels your
metabolic age once we have your body
composition we take your circumference
readings and we also take your picture
from the front from the side the other
side and from the back so that we have a
real memory of where you started not
just in terms of the way you looked but
also in terms of your posture because as
we go forward and train somebody we want
to make sure that their posture is
improving too and then the last thing
that we do is we measure their vo2 which
is their cardiovascular health once we
have a full picture of the way they are
we put together the strategy and you
mentioned all these measurements that
you’re taking why can’t you just look at
the numbers on the scale if someone
tells me I want to lose 10 pounds no
problem I can make you lose 10 pounds by
tomorrow I’m going to take you over to
my sauna I’m going to take away all your
water and I’m going to make you sweat
10 pounds or I can calorie reduce you
and on the scale you’ll have lost 10
pounds but you’ll have lost bone and
you’ll have lost muscle and i’ll
probably have dehydrated you in the
process as well most people what they
want to do is improve their body
composition and that you just can’t
measure by looking at the scale so does
that mean that to people who weigh the
same aren’t exactly in the same health
condition I see hundreds of people in my
fitness assessments every year and I can
see someone who’s exactly the same age
the same height and have the same weight
and one can be obese and one can be
extremely fit muscle weighs more than
fat so someone who is small dense really
muscular but has low body fat could
weigh the same as someone who’s
extremely obese who has a lot of fat and
low muscle why is it important to have
one before you start training well I see
a lot of people who train really really
hard in the gym and some people never
meet their goals as I was really
important that if you’re going to be
spending time in a gym you want that
time to be productive they have to take
several factors into consideration in
order to meet their fitness goals and
that needs to include what you eat what
you drink what your exercise plan is how
you sleep rest and recuperate and
consistency what’s the difference
between a realistic goal and an
unrealistic goal usually it’s the time
frame someone tells me they want to lose
20 pounds to be healthy and we agree
together that 20 pounds is a good goal
if they tell me they want to lose it by
next weekend for a wedding unfortunately
I can’t make that happen we also have to
talk about commitment someone could tell
me i really want to lose this weight or
i want to put on this amount of muscle
and they want to do with in a great
amount of time frame but if they only
come to the gym once a month it’s never
going to happen if they don’t adjust
their nutrition it’s never going to
happen so it’s really important that
when people are working towards a goal
that they have a strategy that
encapsulates all of those elements and
it’s really important that they’re
consistent about it it’s not enough to
have a strategy you actually have to do
it thank you very much thank you
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