The Mirror Method: Why Your Body Fat Percentage Doesn't Matter (But This Question Does)
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We're discussing the importance of asking better questions related to health and fitness as a means to achieve more meaningful results.
Gain insights into how shifting your focus from metrics like body fat percentage to actionable questions can lead to improved outcomes in your wellness journey.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives.
ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, kid's book writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. Every week here on the show, EC, and I simplify the |
| 0:06.7 | principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness to help you perform better, feel better, |
| 0:11.7 | and of course live better. My name is Patrick. I'm here with a very, very quick introduction. |
| 0:16.1 | What we have for you this week is an episode that EC and I did on another show of mine called Chasing |
| 0:22.3 | Excellence. If you don't know, search it up. I think you'll like it. We had EC on to chat with us, |
| 0:28.0 | my co-host, Ben and I, about the power of questions and the skill of asking better questions |
| 0:33.6 | as it relates to our health. This is something, if you've been listening to the Consistency Project for a while, |
| 0:39.3 | you know EC is so, so good at finding the right question that we should be asking |
| 0:45.3 | instead of the easy question that we are often asking. |
| 0:48.3 | So that's what this episode is about. I do hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:50.3 | Thanks so much for being here. Let's get right into it. |
| 0:53.3 | All right, so we are going to talk about questions. We're going to talk about how asking better questions can lead to better |
| 0:57.6 | results across our health spans. And this was sparked actually by EEC, by you, by an article that |
| 1:05.2 | you put in the morning chalk up, which is a wonderful newsletter, inside the CrossFit space. And the |
| 1:09.3 | article is called the Mirror Method, a better way to track progress than body fat testing. And here's just a little bit of that |
| 1:16.2 | article that made me think, oh, I want to have EC on. I want to talk to her about questions. |
| 1:19.8 | You wrote this. Here's what I've learned after years in nutrition. Most people ask the wrong question. |
| 1:24.8 | Instead of what's the most accurate body fat test, ask yourself, |
| 1:28.4 | what will this number actually do for me? And I think this is something that you do really well, |
| 1:33.2 | you see you're very good at bringing us back, bringing our attention back to the right question |
| 1:40.0 | and maybe not the easy question. And so what we're going to do today is we're going to break down |
| 1:44.9 | some of those easy questions and talk about how we can maybe transform them into better |
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