TRACKING YOUR PROGRESS
Do you need to track you lifts ?
HOW TO TRACK YOUR WORKOUTS :
Logging all your exercises with reps and sets is a non negotiable.
You can use your phone notes or a paper diary - it doesn’t matter.
What does matter, is you keep note of everything, stick to your programme and try your hardest to progress as much as you can. Keep the form the same and look back on however many reps you got with a weight last session and aim for +1 or +2 or up the weight and aim for as many as possible.
This is THE MOST IMPORTANT tool for progressive overload.
It doesn’t matter how it’s done, as long as it makes sense to you and you ensure you are tracking all your reps and sets.
This is how you KNOW you are moving in the right direction and progressing perpetually.
Your notes could look something similar to this, feel free to copy this and paste it into your notes :
PUSH:
INCLINE DB = …kg (…) …kg (…)
INCLINE MACHINE PRESS = …kg (…) …kg (…)
PEC FLY = …kg (…) …kg (…)
TRICEP PUSHDOWN = …kg (…) …kg (…)
OVERHEAD TRICEP EXTENSION = …kg (…) …kg (…)
CUFF LAT RAISE = …kg (…) …kg (…)