Do you keep a journal for training/ nutrition/ supps or sleep?

[240 is Back]

Discuss.

[Stavios]

no

[Arnold jr]

I keep track of all my measurements and weight....typically weigh once per wk and measure once every 4-6wks. For nutrition, I only track it when dieting, but I keep a close eye on it year round.

[Hedgehog]

Discuss.

What about you?

-Hedge

[Deadpool]

used to, haven't recently

[saucetradomous]

I keep track of all my measurements and weight....typically weigh once per wk and measure once every 4-6wks. For nutrition, I only track it when dieting, but I keep a close eye on it year round.

What's the point of keeping track of your weight if your not dieting?

[Deadpool]

What's the point of keeping track of your weight if your not dieting?

to see if you are improving in poundages in your workouts 

[Arnold jr]

What's the point of keeping track of your weight if your not dieting?

It's not completely necessary it's just something I do. As long as the measurements are going up, that's all that matters, but typically, not always but most of the time weight goes up with this at some rate.

[Undisputed]

Tried a diet journal once...It lasted one day.  Couldn't keep track of all the candy and shit.

[chainsaw]

No, I go as all out as possible everytime I train, Just like with my business.

I keep goals though, 2 different things.

I have sometimes seen logs as limitations, and when things are going well, not as expected,

The subconsious can really do damage to you're current state.

240, I believe you are with me on this on yeah?

[Sexual Mustard]

have religiously kept a training journal for 9 years.

When I competed, I kept a diet journal as well.  But nowadays when I want to shave off a few vanity pounds, I don't need to.

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[Saxon]

I keep a training journal but just for weight training, don't keep a track of any cardio I do.  I note my weight in that book as well.

[AVBG]

I have over the years kept journals, but when it came down to it I rarely referred back to them, my memory is pretty good so I remember weights and reps used.. so no real need to write it down..

[gh15]

if you dont go on the scale atleast 10 times a day,,,you aint no bodybuilder buddy

i remember one time i woke up 265lb i went and drank the orange juice jug i had in fridge,,think i drank half of it,,went on the scale 10 min later and was 273lb,,weight means shit when youre single digit bf%,,it changes if you walk diff

weight should be mesured only once a day and it is in the am after 8 hour sleep,,upon waking up,, after drinking 1 glass of water. that will be your true weight

[leonp1981]

I have a training log, with all my workouts over the last 3 1/2 years.  I also weigh myself once a week, and try to reach new PB lifts each month.  I find having things written in black and white motivates me more, it gives me a target to beat all the time.

[triple_pickle]

i kept a training and nutrition journal for a year way back in high school.  waste of time, imo.  first, as you age and hopefully progress, any marginal gains become smaller and smaller no matter what exercises you do and how you eat so you cannot expect that something that brought you decent gains in the past will work today.  second, as you age, after some point you are not able to train with the same intensity as when you were 18 so the reference frame changes too.  perhaps you used to do 24 sets for legs and these days 16 is all you can take.  third, do you really go back to your old logs and read them?

[leonp1981]

third, do you really go back to your old logs and read them?

I work out at home most of the time, and I keep mine on a shelf next to my weights.  Then, if I'm having a shit workout, I get them down and see where I was compared to where I am.  It just reminds me that I'm achieving something.

[240 is Back]

I'm keeping one for protein grams, and weights/reps.  building a fine garage home gym and it's a tad less chaotic than the 'real' gym.

[saucetradomous]

to see if you are improving in poundages in your workouts 

When He say's measurements and weight together I'm assuming he meant "Bodyweight"

[mesmorph78]

no.
i find it weird sometimes u see.. guys.. walking around the gym with a book... writing down everything.. i can remember everyworkout i ever did... my max pondages.. i cant see why someone would need to write down everything they do but to each their own..
i personally tink a lot of guys do it to look hardcore.. along with the boots.. the bandana.. jug of water.. chalk to do bicep curls..
they have everything except the thing that is truly important.. the physique..
so journals. no i dont personally see the need for them

[EL Mariachi]

a bunch of roman-writers

[AVBG]

no.
i find it weird sometimes u see.. guys.. walking around the gym with a book... writing down everything.. i can remember everyworkout i ever did... my max pondages.. i cant see why someone would need to write down everything they do but to each their own..
i personally tink a lot of guys do it to look hardcore.. along with the boots.. the bandana.. jug of water.. chalk to do bicep curls..
they have everything except the thing that is truly important.. the physique..
so journals. no i dont personally see the need for them

exactly... How hard is it to keep track of something that you are genuinely interested in?

[Rimbaud]

I keep a training journal but just for weight training, don't keep a track of any cardio I do.  I note my weight in that book as well.

Same here except I keep track of cardio as well.

[saucetradomous]

exactly... How hard is it to keep track of something that you are genuinely interested in?

mesmorph and AVBG got it right... The only time you might need to keep track is with your diet or if your a beginner just starting out.  Otherwise it's should be just as common to you as Day and Night.

[saucetradomous]

I mean who sits down for half an hour filling out Charts and Graphs when they could be there working out?  Get the fuck up off that bench and let me use it! haha. 

Imagine seeing Ronnie Coleman using a program like Quicken at home to fill out his max lifts wearing a green Visor