The Most Essential Tool for Improving your Fitness

What if I told you that one item can help improve both your weight training and your cardio? This item is simple, small, and affordable and if you haven't been using it you may very well have been holding yourself back. So are you wondering what innovation, method, or routine can transform your workouts?

The exercise journal!

If you haven't been keeping track of your progress and your routines I implore that the next time you are out  buy a small notebook to start keeping track of your workouts. For a few dollars you can track your progress and see if you are actually improving. Another great aspect of the exercise journal is that if you aren't making progress you now have a record to look back and see when your improvement stopped. There are so many similar numbers week to week it is virtually impossible to keep track without writing it down. Can you actually remember all the weights you used and reps you did last week? Is it time to take a week off from training? No more guessing if you are in week ten or eleven of your routine.

An exercise journal just doesn't have to include the number of sets of squats and rows you performed or your resistance and time on the stationary bike. It is helpful to write down how you are feeling before and after your workouts. Has your shoulder been sore? An exercise journal is the perfect place to record this information so if you are wondering why your reps on the military press went down you can look back and see that it could be related to a strain or not enough recovery time between workouts. Did you complete your sets of sprints just a little slower a few weeks back because of your sore knee? Now you can look and know for certain. To get in better shape we have to push past what we were capable of before and an exercise journal is the first step to being able to do this.