I have no idea how it would normally all be measured. They have you step onto a scale like machine that first measures your weight. Enter in my membership ID and then it will measure the other crap. You hold the arms with your own arms out and not touching the body and it does it's thing. We did this when we started and then again yesterday to compare results. I do all the entering of weight and such so that I guess that I see he's not cheating. How it figures this stuff, no frickin idea! But it does.
It tells you much more: total body water, dry lean mass, body fat mass & weight. Then muscle fat analysis, obesity analysis, segmental lean analysis - then finally the body composition history of which is where I got the weight, skeletal muscle mass & percentage of body fat from. I'll post photo below.
Ok, so now I know what I will NOT be doing!
All makes sense. I didn't figure I would ever lose it fully. Would perhaps be nice to just be able to take my shirt off without Mt. Jiggly falling out.
I'm definitely my own worst critic. My wife said she is going to throw away our scale and mirrors on me. The troubleshooter in me tries for results and then looks for change. But I realize it's a process at the same time. Yes, it's been 6 weeks. 16lb loss and the 4% drop, of which I fully expect to plateau and even out.
My goal is probably about 20% appearance because I'm a self conscious jerk that is shy as it is! But the other 80% is to get back in shape and not croak by the time I am 65. Agree over the appearance alone as I know the lifestyle change in diet and such is even more important. I'm not naive, I know I am 55 and getting pretty gray, so don't expect or even want miracles, even though it sounds like that at times.
Break out the shorties and have wife take pictures? Do you know my wife? She'll be here on DP by the end of the day posting them! LOL
But yeah, I know that the best way is long term change and stop looking for daily changes.
Just not 100% sure. He's not just some guy off the street but rather a FT trainer that the gym hires for just that reason. When he has no customers he then goes home. But the proceeds go to the gym and I guess he just gets paid by hourly/commission or something.
He's not having me go directly towards free weights and heavy lifting or anything like that. We do 10min of stretching to start, then onto various circuits he sets up. Each one works on legs, arms, chest, shoulder and all the other places while of course centering around the core mostly. I found my upper body to be much stronger than my aching legs!
He keeps me going with various circuits until completion and we work quickly with minimal breaks, but take them when needed.
He also writes down various plans for me on paper to take home with me for home workouts - as well as setup n their system for home & includes short video tutorials of every exercise.
What I personally like the most is it keeps me going there and keeps me honest. I know I am doing ALL of these workouts when with him and working my butt off. When by myself and feeling intimidated by the muscleheads or beautiful scenery, I sometimes stay to the outside and do less work and ultimately hit the steam room with less of a workout there and then come home to all of my lame equipment for further work here. One thing about a trainer is that they keep you motivated and moving.
Yup, it's gonna be another 12 weeks going forward and each session is making the gym some solid $$. I guess in the respect that it keeps me going and accomplishes what I want, that makes it worth it. I do see results as well, and the paper shows results. Not sure about this fancy schmancy machine they use though.
Here's the copy of what they did to get results from the thingamajig machine. The very bottom on left is where I pulled results from.