What's going on everybody? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcast. I'm

our coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house.

And this is Motivation Monday. We have some killer questions for you in the mailbag, questions

submitted from our amazing community members just like yourself. And if you ever want to submit

a question in the future, please do so. Follow us on Instagram, shoot us a DM. And if you have any question,

big or small, we'll add it to our list and we would love to answer it on the episode. And we always

like to kick off these episodes with our primary question. So we're going to start right there.

And the first question out of the mailbag is, what are the best ways to track progress?

I already weigh in every day, but I want more ways to quantify my progress.

And this is a phenomenal question because if you're not tracking progress, it can be very hard to actually gauge if you're receiving it.

And even with clients, what's amazing when I get the

amazing results, like usually they're the one telling me all the different metrics that will kind of

cover here of like other people noticing their progress or mood improving. Their doctor will

usually ask them what they're doing from their blood work. But even for me, when I started,

it's kind of silly, but I remember I was like, okay, I want to get fit, whatever clicked in my mind. And I remember thinking, too, like, if I drink a ton of water and do a lot of crunches for some reason, like that'll get rid of the fat. And this is when I was like a kid. I guess this is before I officially started. But I remember I was chugging water. I did probably like a million crunches for an hour and I kept looking in the mirror and abs weren't there. And I think what's hard about fitness and what's also exciting about fitness is it's something where you can see the end result forming as you do it. A lot of things like it's like nothing to something. Like you plant a seed. You don't see anything for a long time and then that seed sprouts. What's really cool about fitness especially is like you can see that change day after day. So you can see the scale changing. You can see muscles forming. You can see new veins popping in. And like these are really, really exciting metrics. It's just that they're a lot harder to quantify and actually measure. So I like that that was included in this because weight is an arbitrary. Like it's set. It is what it is. Like if I'm 180 pounds, I'm 180 pounds, especially if you're doing it correctly and you're weighing in in the morning after you've gone to the bathroom and minimal clothing. That's going to be as close to accurate day after day as it can be. It's very hard for me to say if like my arm looks a little bigger one day.

And naturally our mind will kind of lie to itself a bit. And it's easy to have a little bit of body

dysmorphia and even feel like you're not as big as you are. You look worse than you are. And

it's funny too because in retrospect, there's times where I distinctly remember I was very lean,

but I thought I could be leaner.

And it's common human condition to want more than where you already are. And I remember thinking, oh, if I just lose five more plans, I'll look really good. But now I'll look at photos from that time and I'll be like, I was shredded. Like, why did I ever wear a shirt? Like I just look killer there, right? So with that, I think that's where actually finding ways to track this is the best it can be.

So when I started, I started naturally with weighing in, looking at myself in the mirror.

And then I wanted to take it a step further because what gets track gets managed. And I just learned through and through like with anything I was studying that tracking, finding tangible results is everything.

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