Don't Skip Leg Day: Why Operational Fitness Takes Weekly Discipline

Commercial landscapers have been using BomData for years now to tighten maintenance crew efficiency. With crew rankings and ticket-level analysis, it’s easy to spot opportunities—whether it’s fine-tuning schedules for your best crews or identifying coaching moments for underperformers. But here’s the thing: efficiency isn’t a one-and-done achievement. It’s a discipline.

Just the other day, a customer shared,

“We were doing great and thought we had everything figured out. Then one of our branch’s efficiency totally fell off last week. We had to dig into it. It’s just like going to the gym. You develop the habit of continuous maintenance.” 

That comment stuck with us. Because they’re right: using BomData is a lot like maintaining your physical fitness. You don’t go to the gym once and expect to stay in shape forever. The same is true for your operation. Crews change. Managers come and go. Workflows shift. What worked great in spring might not hold up in summer. Without regular check-ins, performance slips.

BomData becomes part of your operational routine, helping you spot early signs of strain, keep teams aligned, and build a culture that doesn’t settle for “good enough.”

• Efficiency is a habit.
• Visibility is how you build it.
• And BomData is how you keep it.

NALP recently shared a great piece that drives this home (check it out here). From tracking sales conversion rates to catching underperforming pricing segments, the most successful teams aren’t waiting for problems to surface, they’re using reports as part of their regular operating rhythm. That mindset aligns perfectly with how BomData customers build efficiency into their weekly routine.

Pro Tip

If you’re only looking at efficiency after something goes wrong, you’re already behind. The most successful operators build a weekly rhythm: 

• Scan your crew rankings.
• Investigate any unexpected dips.
• Celebrate outliers who are crushing it, then figure out how to replicate it.   
  

Start small. Even a 15-minute review every Friday or Monday can surface early warning signs before they turn into bigger problems.

Think of it like fitness: You don’t just step on the scale, you track the reps. Looking at overall efficiency tells you something, but it won’t show where the real gains or losses are happening. That’s why BomData drills down to the ticket level.

So don’t skip leg day, or your Monday metrics. Over time, that rhythm creates something just as powerful as efficiency: accountability.