by Many fitness trainers say the one golden rule to success in the weight room is to track your lifts.
It is quite obvious that it is important to track your progress in the weight-room if you are trying to progress.
Here are three reasons why:
- 1) By tracking your progress, you are more likely to be consistent.
If you track your lifts, you are more likely to stick to a plan.
- 2) You are more likely going to try harder
If you’re about to hit a set of dips and you see in your log that last week you did 7 reps on that particular weight, you are going to try extra hard to make sure you get in 8 this time.
- 3) More data is always better!
You will learn what works best for you. Furthermore, if you plateau in an exercise it will be evident in the tracking log since you can look at the progress (or lack of progress) in the log. When you plateau you know it is probably time to try something new.
Conclusion: I recommend buying a little notebook and writing down all your workouts.
