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Dear Diary…

Posted July 1, 2008 at 01:30 PM by Donnell Peavy

Section: His Gear & Apparel, Gadgets & Access, Reviews, His Health, Mental Health, Lifestyle Health

One of the beautiful things about working out is progress. You get to see and feel your body transform. But, keeping the intensity up is paramount, or your body doesn’t adapt, get lazy and the next thing you know, you’ve hit a plateau. If you aren’t keeping track of your workouts, you may be more susceptible to this. The solution, however, is simple enough: use a fitness journal. You can buy journals such as BodyMinder, you can make your own, or you can use online journals, such as DailyPlate.

BodyMinder has weekly plan worksheets for you to list out days you intend to work out in a given week and what type of exercise you are doing. After filling out your weekly plans, there are daily workout sheets where you input the work you actually accomplished. These are divided into strength and cardio and there is also a dietary section where you may keep track of foods you ate for that day. You are also provided with a small guide of calorie counts of common foods, weekly progress sheets, a section to input games and competitions you have entered and even vinyl sheets where you can place before and after pictures.

Daily Plate has both fitness and diet sections and feature a huge database of foods and fitness activities. They even have calorie breakdowns of various foods and the journal keeps track of your caloric intake and expenditures. The DailyPlate site also provides peer support in the form of discussion forums and groups. You can pick a goal, find a group for it and engage in discussion with people who have similar fitness goals to your own.

Keeping a journal can be an educational and rewarding experience, but you must have the honesty to keep accurate records and the persistence to keep it going. Once you get in the habit of keeping your journal, you may find yourself wondering how you ever made it without one.

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