14 Linking Measures, Goals, and Plans
When I turned 30, I started thinking more about my health and overall fitness level, so I decided to get some base-line data on how unhealthy I was. I never exercised, had a terrible diet, smoked, and got winded climbing a few flights of stairs. I didn’t look fat, but my waist was only about 4 inches smaller than my chest. I went to a doctor as well as a personal fitness trainer and got a base-line assessment of a number of key measures of my health:
- Blood chemistry: cholesterol, glucose, and so on.
- Heart rate.
- Blood pressure.
- Respiration.
- Body fat percentage.
- Weight.
- Measurements.
- Strength.
- Flexibility.
Looking at the data was enough to shock me into action; I took some immediate steps like quitting ...
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