Hi all-
What do you guy/girls use for tracking workouts? Trying to avoid spreadsheet or notebook.
Thanks
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05-20-2020, 08:56 AM #1
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05-20-2020, 09:51 AM #2
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05-20-2020, 11:43 AM #3
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05-20-2020, 12:03 PM #4
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05-20-2020, 01:54 PM #5
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05-21-2020, 02:42 AM #6
Strong is the best iOS app I’ve used for pure tracking. Fitbod on the other hand does a really good job of generating programs (and then tracking against them is ok), so it’s a matter of what you’re looking for... but purely for tracking I’d strongly (hah) recommend Strong.
My home gym: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=175136471&p=1623181551&viewfull=1#post1623181551
My Strava profile: https://www.strava.com/athletes/3015113
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05-21-2020, 04:16 AM #7
I'm in the spreadsheet crew, keeping a single sheet for as long as possible. I've only relatively recently taken the time to review training going way back rather than in some recent 6 month block. I find that spreadsheet meant I could scroll back multiple years and see patterns where I'd highlighted bad stuff with red fill and comments.
I was able to see a pattern over a long time of over-reach and some vague illness or muscle injury then recovery and over enthusiasm leading to grinding myself down again, the cycle was over quite a long term and not obvious until I reviewed more than about 18 months at a time. It's a kind of long term 10 steps forwards 8 or 9 steps back - pretty inefficient training, poor recovery outside gym - I wished I reviewed it like that about 2 years ago when it the pattern established
I don't think I would have spotted really long term trends in some app rendering
Excel (or Google sheets etc) is pretty boring and uber-nerdy, but you can cut and dice the data: trend, lagged moving averages, graph it or however you want. Not an everyday need but pretty useful in an annual review
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05-21-2020, 09:36 AM #8
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05-21-2020, 11:00 AM #9
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05-21-2020, 01:08 PM #10
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05-24-2020, 05:58 PM #11
I use Microsoft word to make basically workout sheet templates in the form of a table where I can put bodypart/exercise in the cells on the left then sets and reps to the right. Date pm weight, start stop times etc all at the top. I used to transcribe all that $hit to a yearly planner and also post in my journal when I kept one on here. Lately I just use sheets to track what I did and they just kind of pile up...
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05-25-2020, 02:51 PM #12
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05-29-2020, 06:33 AM #13
If you're looking for an android app or mobile app, I very quickly became a fan of "Progression", and it was the very first app(s) I paid for. Simple, easy to use, to the point, and great statistics. Previously I jumped around between JetFit, BodyBuilding, handwritten notebook, excel sheets, etc and didn't really care for any of them.
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06-01-2020, 07:26 PM #14
Strong
I’m in with the guys recommending strong. It works very well with the iOS app. Also, if you have an Apple Watch it works great with that too. I like the yearly sub instead of monthly. Also, I had a question/suggestion for them and both times they responded within 12 hours. Can’t ask for much more than that!
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06-04-2020, 08:18 AM #15
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06-12-2020, 02:30 PM #16
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06-13-2020, 05:04 AM #17
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06-14-2020, 07:15 PM #18
Reading this thread makes me realize that I need to upgrade my way of thinking.
The mesocycle and its macrocycles, in my case, are all in Excel.
But... sadly I am an old stubborn man.
I open my spiral notebook, pick a pen, drink the first coffee, and beging to write to the notebook the scheduled trainning session. Yes, that one already described in the spreadsheet. Slowly.
If it is a training day with clean & jerks or deadlifts... I begin to think the night before.
Coffee, transcription, home-gym setup, more one coffee, heavy metal playlist organized, notebook, warm up, last coffee, and the training session itself.
Every pause between series I sit down, pick the notebook, put a checkmark (counting days with chalk convicted style) on an exercise # set. But also I write a lot of comments, thoughts, ... , well a lot of stuff.
After training I return to the Excel spreasheet and update it.
I just can´t get rid of this habit. But I will try all the apps you guys described.
Thanks.
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06-15-2020, 10:27 AM #19
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06-17-2020, 12:24 PM #20
My new favorite is GymRat
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...etrovic.gymrat
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06-17-2020, 01:01 PM #21
I've tried a few, but I prefer pen and paper. I only write down the workout as I'm doing it, though. My desktop picture is a Sticky Notes (this one: https://download.cnet.com/Sticky-Not...-75560734.html) image of my entire workout.
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06-17-2020, 01:53 PM #22
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06-21-2020, 10:15 AM #23
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01-17-2022, 10:35 AM #24
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01-17-2022, 05:31 PM #25
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09-23-2023, 01:09 AM #26
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09-23-2023, 06:53 AM #27
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