Progress over goals
Do you have any fitness goals? There are some who want to lose weight, others who want to cut body fat, etc., by a certain time period. They may even create a false deadline to achieve their goals, even though there is no urgency for them to do so. To each their own, of course, but what if you stopped setting goals altogether? What if you started tracking your workouts instead? Let me explain.
When it comes to fitness, I don’t have any goals. I just show up and do the exercise. What I do have is a way to measure my progress. I use an exercise tracker sheet to track my workouts. It’s useful for me to know how far I’ve come in my workouts from x months ago. Any time I set a new record in one of my workouts, I make a note of it. I suppose the sheet is essentially a glorified log.
I try to log my workouts on the weekends. I list out the exercise date, type, duration, repetitions, pre- and post-workout meals, and any additional notes that might come in handy later. If I’m totally honest, I’m lazy with filling out the log each week or even to fill all the columns.1 That said, I’d like to log my workouts every day as part of the daily debrief, but it doesn’t always happen.
I’m not lazy about working out, though. ↵