For those of you without photographic memories, what do you bring to your workouts to track your progress from day to day?

I carry a little Moleskine ruled notebook (http://www.moleskine.com/eng/_interni/catalogo/Cat_int/catalogo_notebooks.htm) and a ball point pen so that my sweating doesn't smear the ink...much.

Usually the only other people I see writing down their info are folks who've worked with the personal trainers and have the tracking sheets they can file at the front desk.

M@

I just made an Excel spreadsheet of the workout from the P/T and then I carry around a b/p pen and make notes on it as I go through. After a few weeks, the paper is too messy/destroyed to keep using, so I update the spreadsheet, reprint, and keep on keepin' on.

It's probably not the best, but seems to work alright for now.

I write everything down in a note book and later in the day transfer it to a worksheet on my pc.

Well, I'm at home so I just go down and type it into a spread. I've also enabled my inner geek and recorded them in the spreadsheet loaded in my PDA.

I've also enabled my inner geek and recorded them in the spreadsheet loaded in my PDA.

I was wondering if there were people doing this. I don't put my info into a spreadsheed but if I were to ever start doing that I think I'd want to go paperless in the gym.

M@

I have a gym in my basement. Up on the wall there's a "marks-a-lot" board.

if i was going to a gym I'd take a small notebook. But it would be good quality and not subject to degradation by "sweat" etc.

Possibly the kind with coiled wire to hold the pages together or a tiny ring binder.

I wouldn't use a stapled notebook. Pages always come loose in those things and fall out.

I'm working out at home now so I'm back to using paper. When I was going to the gym I used my Palm and a software called PDAbs. They've revised it recently and added a lot of nice tracking features.

http://www.acrocat.com/PDAbs/default.asp?lang=en

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I was wondering if there were people doing this. I don't put my info into a spreadsheed but if I were to ever start doing that I think I'd want to go paperless in the gym.

M@


It isn't as slick as it sounds due to screen size the way my spreadsheet works out. Too much scrolling around. Even if I flip it to landscape orientation.

OK in a pinch if I'm at a hotel or something and doing DBs, though, although generally I can remember what I did for my 6 exercises or so I do until I can get back to the room :)

I take a half scrap of printer paper and a pen to the gym. PRWO, I draw a quick sketch of what's on the menu. PWO, I post what I did in my JSF journal.

For those of you without photographic memories, what do you bring to your workouts to track your progress from day to day?

I use my memory for the exercise list, but I use my cell phone/pda/everything else device or latptop (whichever I get to first) to put the stuff in the journal here. So I only normally have to remember the exercise list for an hour or two.

Here's what I use:


http://arker.homelinux.org/~dcraven/trans/hguy/shots/clipboard.jpg


It's just a simple $3 clipboard and a pencil. It contains my current spreadsheet (saved and printed as PDF to remain portable for all time :)) and a few from past weeks so that I can use the past data for notes and/or extra motivation if I need it to up the weight a bit more. It seems to work out quite well.

The sheets eventually get archived in a binder for historical purposes sorted by tranformation week, and the important data gets jammed into an aggregated sheet when I feel ambitious/bored.

Cheers,
Heavy

It's just a simple $3 clipboard and a pencil. It contains my current spreadsheet...

Wow! That's a pretty thorough setup. I like it. :D :tucool:

I also looked at your progress photos again. I can't get over how awesome it is that the fat shrinks off your midsection while your forearms stay lookin' like you could twist a train-track into a bow. :lol:

M@

Cheap day planner that has each day/page and a pencil.

I also looked at your progress photos again. I can't get over how awesome it is that the fat shrinks off your midsection while your forearms stay lookin' like you could twist a train-track into a bow. :lol:
hahah.. Oh you're far too kind. I am looking to take another inch off the midsection this month, so stay tuned! :lol:

Cheers,
Heavy