What Gets Measured Gets Managed

Given that I run a fitness program to help guys get their mojo back by building muscle, burning fat and increasing testosterone naturally through nutrition and fitness (that was a mouthful), I believe it’s worthwhile getting my own hormones tested.  The main ones are testosterone (total and free) and oestrogen (US spelling estrogen) along with others including thyroid and cholesterol.  As I was walking to the centre earlier, the phrase ‘what gets measured gets managed’ popped into my head. It is so true wouldn’t you agree? I’d suggest getting a male hormone panel done like this one:

-Lipid Panel
-Complete Blood Count (CBC) w/ Differential
-Estradiol, Sensitive
-Insulin Growth Factor (IGF-1)
-Comprehensive Metabolic Profile (CMP) (includes eGFR)
-Testosterone (Free) , Serum (Equilibrium Ultrafiltration) With Total Testosterone
-Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA)
-Thyroid Profile

Some of that may not make a lot of sense, but once you get a panel done, you’ll naturally want to know more about it and you’ll want to make sure you start making changes to your diet and fitness to ensure all the figures move in the right direction. What gets measured, gets managed, and you’re far more likely to stick with a decent diet (for the longterm) and regular fitness. No more yoyo dieting and that’s what I’m all about with the Mojo Multiplier Blueprint.

It also made me think of how typical “weight loss” programs use just a set of weighing scales to measure progress. I think this is very wrong – in isolation – as you can lose weight by restricting calories – but this will typically include muscle breakdown which you absolutely don’t want as this will cause testosterone to drop and your metabolism to slow down. This is why all fad diets never work longterm and why 95% of people will end up gaining all the FAT back, and then some.  It’s essential to build muscle when on a mission to burn fat. The other reason ‘weight loss’ doesn’t work is that you can gain weight and burn fat – but if you measure you apparent progress on the scales, you may become demotivated when you don’t see that you’re ‘losing weight’. Who cares how much you weigh? You just want less fat don’t you?

Instead, invest in one of these badboys:

Body weight is just one of 7 components – the really useful ones are body fat percentage and visceral fat (this is the fat that surrounds your organs – that no one talks about yet is the most important factor in burning fat), resting metabolism and muscle percentage. You want to reduce body fat percentage and visceral fat percentage, increase muscle percentage and resting metabolism. A set of weighing scales tells you diddly squat besides your total bodyweight which is fairly irrelevant!