Why measure is important for fitness

Improving fitness is a performance-based concept. Fitness is generally related to improving health and health, both physically and mentally. Most people associate fitness to lose weight. This doesn’t always happen. Let’s start by reviewing the Fitness Definition:

“Total fitness is the ability to combine danger of disease, efficiency in everyday life, the ability to carry out the desired activities, (eg sports, dancing, playing with children), healthy mental attitudes, and good social behavior, for achieve optimal quality of life. “[1]

This definition of fitness calls for improving physical and mental quality of life. For reviews about how psychological activity is related to fitness, see “Don’t underestimate the influence of psychological fitness”. The best way to determine fitness is to set measurements related to the above definition. Measurement is the best way to determine performance.

Why is measurement so important? Measurement is a premise for feedback. Feedback link directly to performance improvements. In the research project conducted by Miriam Erez found the feedback, “facilitates the appearance of individual differences in independent purposes based on knowledge of past individual performance. Then when the goal itself is set, it provides knowledge for future performance. To be consistent with its own destination . [2] “Feedback starts with the study of your current reality, for example percent of body fat today, body circumference. The next step is to make a vision that sets the desired future state. After this is done, you need to define measurements for future countries using the same measurement criteria that you use to determine your current reality. After completing this step, it is easy to compare two measurements and realize the performance gap. It is important to realize that knowing this information (knowledge) does not ensure performance changes. How you use information (monitoring & action) determine changes that lead to more effective performance.

Now we understand knowledge alone does not lead to increased performance, it is important to understand how monitoring can cause actions that result in performance changes. This concept becomes more important because you learn to be responsible for sustainable fitness. Many people employ personal trainers because of their ability to set measurements and monitor the progress of their clients. Unfortunately, this can cause dependence on the coach. This is bad for two reasons. First, the dependence is expensive. Second, it transfers client performance accountability to the coach. When the client decides to stop using a personal trainer, there hasn’t been enough to learn on the client’s section, to transfer a collection of monitoring skills and action planning for sustainable fitness performance. As a result, clients often leave their monitoring that produces non-performance. This often leads to abandon the development of fitness and regression back to the previous country.

Accountability increases performance leaning on individuals. When hiring a personal trainer, it is important to ensure the coach’s focus is to educate clients about the monitoring process and give them the skills and tools to monitor their own performance. There are several internet tools and PDAs available through the internet. These tools provide setting goals, body measurements, food monitoring, calorie tracking, activity tracking, and behavioral tools, eg. Municipal monitoring and journal. Monitoring tool sets feedback, eg. Calories burn vs calories consumed, calorie expenditure activity, and mood-to-calories comparison. Individuals who set fitness goals and use these tools have better opportunities to achieve their own fitness goals than those who do not.

Monitoring and feedback also establishes effective performance behavior patterns.

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