If you want to transform your body, focussing on your scale weight can be detrimental. In this post, you’ll find a really good reason why this is true!

I met Hayley back in 2013, and three years later she looks like a totally different woman. This post is a flashback, but I’m going back to where I used to collect images like this to educate women (and before I got overwhelmed by coaching and life!)

When it comes to transformation, patience, dedication and hard work coupled with good nutrition, strength training and a long-term focus are key to bringing about awesome results

On the left, Hayley was training twice a day and eating low calories, most of the training was cardio and group-fitness based.

We flipped that upside-down by increasing her weights sessions, cutting back the cardio, and increasing her food over time. She hasn’t done anything extreme to get to where she is now, and the only time she does more than one session per day is at the tail-end of her competition prep.

And, she weighs the same!

For anyone interested in fat loss, if your aim is body transformation and you are also lifting weights, make sure you use something other than just scale weight to track your progress because despite being the same weight, she looks totally different.

If you want to transform your body, you really need to stop relying on scale weight.

Hayley competed in three competition seasons over those three years won two overall titles in ANB and INBA. She is an amazing client and athlete, and I love sharing real-world examples like this with you all

Jen X