If You're Not Tracking, You're Guessing — Key Takeaways
Keep a training log recording exercises, set/rep targets, and weights lifted, because long-term progress requires comparing current performance against past numbers.
Key takeaways
A training log's real purpose is long-term perspective, not short-term programming
A training log's real purpose is long-term perspective, not short-term programming
- It puts workouts in context: you need prior numbers to have a goal each day
- Advanced lifters all know their good/bad/okay performance numbers, written down
Training to failure doesn't replace a written log for progressive overload
Training to failure doesn't replace a written log for progressive overload
- Memory can't handle the volume of numbers; tracking is essential
- The log provides restraint for aggressive overload or a baseline for undereffort
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In this video
- 1mWhy keep a training log
- 1mThe problem with not tracking
- 1mCounterargument: training to failure
- 2mBenefits across training styles
- 2mLong-term accountability
“If you talk to most advanced either natural or enhanced lifters, they all know their numbers.”
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