Weight training diary
- Thread starter Mariela
- Start date
jgoycoolea
Cathlete
I would assume that a weight training "diary" is the same as a training log. It is a form that you can use to fill in your lifting information--the date, how much weight, how many sets, how many reps. You could also indicate what sort and how much cardio you did. In this way, you can track your progress over time.
It would also be useful to indicate other information on it too. For example, how you felt that day --was it easy, could you keep good form, did you enjoy yourself, did you need to pause the vcr and take more rest than Cathe, etc.
Another thing you might want to consider is tracking your diet along with it. Maybe you would notice that if you had a light dinner the previous day that it was difficult to do cardio. Or that if you had a lot of protein one week, that you were stronger the next. (I made that example up, I have no real idea if it would work that way. I suspect it might over the course of a month though.)
Since discovering Cathe, I am more sporadic about keeping one. The form I used was downloadable from the web site below. I recorded my additional info on the back page and kept it all in a 3 ring binder.
http://davedraper.com/training-log-sheet.html
Jeanne
It would also be useful to indicate other information on it too. For example, how you felt that day --was it easy, could you keep good form, did you enjoy yourself, did you need to pause the vcr and take more rest than Cathe, etc.
Another thing you might want to consider is tracking your diet along with it. Maybe you would notice that if you had a light dinner the previous day that it was difficult to do cardio. Or that if you had a lot of protein one week, that you were stronger the next. (I made that example up, I have no real idea if it would work that way. I suspect it might over the course of a month though.)
Since discovering Cathe, I am more sporadic about keeping one. The form I used was downloadable from the web site below. I recorded my additional info on the back page and kept it all in a 3 ring binder.
http://davedraper.com/training-log-sheet.html
Jeanne
jgoycoolea
Cathlete
If you click the link I posted, it takes you to a page with two more underlined links in the middle of the page. If you click the link that says "Click here for the Excel format" a log page will open up. You can then do a "save as" to your hard or floppy drive. I guess one would have to have excel on their computer. But the other link allows you just print out the page. If you still have problems I could e-mail you the excel form as an attachment. Jeanne
Cocomac
Cathlete
I just use a monthly calendar page and keep it right in front of my workout TV. I write which workout I do for each day, plus how much weight I used for each workout. Since I only do Cathe workouts now, it may be portions of one or another video or I might try to stay in a particular rotation for a few weeks. I put X's on the days I rest. There should only be 4 of those each month......
H
honeybunch
Guest
I use calendar books that fit in my purse....I have mine going back to Jan. of 2000! That's when I jumped into the deep end and started Cathe and Taebo in the same month after years of just walking.