Slow progress or am I doing ok?

2Mad2BeMad · 28-06-2022 09:36PM #1

Hi every, hoping someone experienced can help me here,

Just a quick thing about me

I'm 28years old, 6ft 5 in height and 85.7kg in weight

Can anyone look at my attachment and translate it for me ?

I joined a pt last November, just after Christmas I stopped going due to work reasons but I joined back up in May,

I've done 2 body scans since rejoining, and I don't expect any major differences after 1 month I'd just like to see if anyone thinks my progress is going ok?

My goal is to hit 95kg but also to build decent muscle

At the moment I am quite skinny, but have noticed some improvement over the last month

But il be honest reading the paper from the scan I may aswell be reading chinese.

Any help is much appreciated

Cill94 · 29-06-2022 10:08AM

The pertinent info is in the bottom left corner of that sheet, where the graph for before and after is.

Essentially it's saying that you've gained 3.3kg of muscle mass, dropped about 4% bodyfat and gained 2.5kg bodyweight.

You have to take that with a huge pinch of salt though. Bioelectrical impedance measurements are massively influenced by the amount of water in your body. If your PT isn't having you take the measurements in a very controlled condition (i.e. fasted, same time of today, after using loo etc.) then the results are hazy at best.

I'd put more stock in 1) your strength increases 2) increase in body weight, and 3) photos, how your clothes fit, etc. If all those things improve then you have to be gaining muscle.

Girl Geraldine · 29-06-2022 10:12AM

Those tests are a crock of sh!te. They are wildly unreliable and inaccurate. You could do it again tomorrow and it could tell you you've lost 5kg muscle and are 12% bodyfat. They only exist to extract a few quid from people who are naive enough to have faith in them.

2Mad2BeMad · 24-07-2022 01:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119265705#Comment_119265705

Have to agree with you, I thought they might be inaccurate but I done the test again today and it completely makes no sense

I went up in weight , which is what I want it's probably the only reliable thing on it, went up 1.2kg, but the muscle mass has dropped 0.2 which is strange even my trainer says so, because I'm lifting heavier weights compared to the last test, I feel physically stronger and look stronger

Think il have to ignore that test as it will mess with my head going forward

Stone Deaf 4evr · 26-07-2022 12:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119380120#Comment_119380120

you'll see improvements in your lifts, purely from being better at the movements.

over the years, I've come to the realisation that only 2 things matter when measuring fitness.

the amount of weight on the bar
how your clothes fit.

Slow progress or am I doing ok?

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