For Greater Enjoyment and Improvement in Your Exercise Program, Keep Records
Watching your own progress in your fitness program can give great pleasure and satisfaction. You can go back and see how much you have improved. It is easy to overlook the extent of your fitness transformation.
The Advantages of Record-Keeping
- Knowing exactly what your current level of fitness is and how it compares with your previous performance.
- If you keep averages, even if you are having a bad performance day, doing your best is still important for your overall numbers. It promotes being careful and motivated.
- Imposing that necessity to always do as well as possible makes it a habit that becomes automatic. It can also spill over into other parts of your life, improving your efforts at work, at home, and in other areas.
- Your records will reveal the effectiveness of any changes in your workout routine. You may want to change the number of repetitions, amount of weight, length of cardio portions of your workout, etc. Your records will enable you to compare you new routine to your old one. You can experiment with variations to see which one works the best.
- You don’t overestimate or underestimate your workout abilities. You avoid confusion. True improvement stands out and one or two good or poor workout days don’t mean you are suddenly greatly improved, or in a slump.
- You can also see if you have plateaued. That is common in fitness programs and is not a reason for concern. Often, after a significant improvement, your body’s condition level will temporarily stop improving. That is normal. Keeping records keeps you from being concerned.
- You are not disturbed by events that don’t deserve concern.
- There is pleasure in seeing your progress. There is also the pleasure of having a great feeling and highly functioning body.
- You learn faster by keeping and reviewing your records.
- You now have a permanent exercise partner – yourself. You can compete against your records even when no exercise partner is available.
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