weight lifting tracking progress

Posted by: MIKE

I FOUND A METHOD OF TRACKING MY WORKOUTS THAT ACTUALLY MOTIVATES AND PSYCOLOGICALLY PUSHES ME. DOING HIGH VOLUME TRAINING AND TRACKING IT BY RECORDING THE LBS/ MINUTE I AM LIFTING. I PICK A CERTAIN MUSCLE GROUP I WANT TO TARGET AND DO 4-5 EXCERCISES THAT TARGET THOSE MUSCLES. I RECORD THE WEIGHT OF EACH REP, HOW MANY REPS PER SET, AND HOW MANY SETS OF EACH EXERCISE. BEFORE STARTING I DO A VERY LIGHT WARM-UP. I RECORD A START TIME AND BEGIN WITH A LIGHTER WEIGHT TO FURTHER WARM UP, THEN MOVE UP IN WEIGHT.

I ALSO RECORD THE TOTAL WEIGHT LIFTED EACH SET AND THEN THE GRAND TOTALS AT THE END OF THE WORKOUT. THE WORKOUT ALWAYS STAYS AT 60 MINUTES OR LESS. I THEN DIVIDE THE TOTAL LBS. LIFTED BY THE MINUTES TO GET THE LBS PER MINUTE. DURING MY CUTTING PHASES I GENERALLY LIFT MORE LBS PER MINUTE EVEN THOUGH THE WEIGHT IS LIGHTER DUE TO THE HIGHER REP COUNT. BUT EVEN ON THE BULKING PHASE IT STILL ALLOWS ME TO TRACK MY PROGRESS IN WEIGHT AND REPS. HAVEN'T TRAINED IN ABOUT 5 YEARS AND JUST STARTED BACK 6 MONTHS AGO. BY MONITORING MY WORKOUTS THIS WAY I HAVE INCRESED MY LBS PER MINUTE BY 368 LBS PER MIN. DURING CUTTING PHASE AND 184 LBS PER MINUTE ON BULKING CYCLE.

GO HARD, OR GO HOME!

MIKE 'THE VIKING'

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