Keeping a training journal is a great tool for achieving your bodybuilding goals! Recording your bodybuilding routines is great not only for accountability, planning, and motivation, but it also helps you to see where you are and where you have been.
Imagine if you follow a program, get in the best shape of your life, and then you don't remember how you got there. Could you imagine how you would feel if for whatever reason you lose your shape and then do not know how to get back to it? In addition, a training log allows you to easily see where your progress is going. Are you gaining strength? Are you losing body fat? All of these items can be easily looked at when you keep a training log.
Finally, a log allows you to troubleshoot the program if your progress is not moving forward. If you keep detailed accounts of your workouts and bodybuilding diet plan, if you are losing strength and you notice in your training log that you have been consistently missing a meal or two each day, then you know what the fix to the problem is.
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I started to maintain a training log since a year and now i see how indispensable it is, now i can see in the paper there are many things that dont worked well for me when i did it, if the numbers dont change i know i have to do a diferent thing in that specific body part
One of the most important things a training log can do is tell you when you are over taining.If you are eating right and sleeping right and there have been no major changes in your life, an inability to grow in strength or actually going backward in strength is probably a symptom of over training. You may need to take more time off between workoutouts.
I started keeping a log years ago as a way of primarily PLANNING everything I wanted to do at they gym for each workout. I saw so many guys go to the gym and say they were going to do chest or legs with no real plan on how they were going to train that day. When you SEE progress you know you’re on the right track. You know you can continue to grow and meet your goals.
I do a lot to plan my workouts in advanced but I’m guilty of not keeping an accurate log. I will take your advice and give it a go.
What do you recommend for keeping a log, taking a notepad in to the gym?
Thanks,
Mike
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