You have been showing up. Three days a week, sometimes four. You are lifting heavier than you were in January. You feel different in your clothes. And then you step on the scale, and it says the same number it said six weeks ago. That moment breaks more fitness routines than any hard workout ever will. Here is the thing almost nobody tells you: the scale is one of the least useful tools for measuring whether your training is actually working. It measures the total weight of e