Whether you’re a professional athlete training for next season or a self-proclaimed newbie who simply wants to get fit and healthy, an in-depth body analysis of your body composition is crucial in helping you track progress and maintain your goals.

Sure, nothing beats working with health and fitness pros regularly to help reach your body composition goals. Yet taking a body analysis and understanding the different variables that make up your body composition has its advantages too.

First, it can help you become more objective (no need to freak out when your weight fluctuates!) in maintaining body composition success because you know exactly where you are from a broader perspective. In a nutshell, you get to see the bigger picture through intimate knowledge of the parts that make up body composition.  Second, you’ll gain a more detailed, accurate view and be able to compare what’s working to what’s not. As a result, you’ll know exactly what specific steps or adjustments you can take towards your goal, whether that is to gain more muscle mass, lose fat mass or both.