ACE Certified Personal Trainer
This article is based on an expert interview with Monica Morris, conducted by wikiHow Staff Editors. Monica Morris is an ACE (American Council on Exercise) Certified Personal Trainer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With over 15 years of fitness training experience, Monica started her own physical training practice and gained her ACE Certification in 2017. Her workouts emphasize proper warm-ups, cool-downs, and stretching techniques.
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Measuring yourself is a helpful way to track your fitness progress, but what if you don’t have a tape measure? No problem! In this video, certified personal trainer Monica Morris explains other effective ways you can measure yourself without one.
Key Takeaways
- Compare how your clothes fit over time to track your measurements without a tape measure.
- You can also use a scale to track your body weight.
Video Transcript
It depends on what benchmark you're trying to use. The best trick I’ve found is seeing how your clothes fit and comparing what you started at with how they eventually fit as you continue to change shape. Without a tape measure, that would generally be the best way. Or you could just use another benchmark, like the scale, which isn't always best.
