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Any of you record your reps and weights?

I'm pretty anal about it and constantly have my book with me and record every weight and every rep. However I am by far in the minority, most seem just to wing it(or they have better memory than me). If you don't record how can you chart your progress and build on the previous week?

I have a system where as soon as I hit 12 12 12 reps it's up a weight and 12 10 8 reps the first week then 12 12 10 the following week(hopefully).

EDIT: On regards to the music front, I have to have my own music with me. The gym I go to insists on playing awful electropop crap or even worse indigenous electropop crap. I forgot my headphones last week and lost 2 reps on every exercise just because the music was so shyte it distracted me.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Any of you record your reps and weights?

I'm pretty anal about it and constantly have my book with me and record every weight and every rep. However I am by far in the minority, most seem just to wing it(or they have better memory than me). If you don't record how can you chart your progress and build on the previous week?

I have a system where as soon as I hit 12 12 12 reps it's up a weight and 12 10 8 reps the first week then 12 12 10 the following week(hopefully).
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Do it all by memory.

Have my standard warm up weight for two sets which never changes, and I pyramid in the same steps. So all I do is increase my min starting weight. This ensures each set and finally my final set has a higher weight.

However some days I feel like strength work and keep all my sets low and heavy etc. I am passed being locked into a fixed pattern. Trained like that for years. Keeping it fresh is a better fit for me.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Any of you record your reps and weights?

I'm pretty anal about it and constantly have my book with me and record every weight and every rep. However I am by far in the minority, most seem just to wing it(or they have better memory than me). If you don't record how can you chart your progress and build on the previous week?

I have a system where as soon as I hit 12 12 12 reps it's up a weight and 12 10 8 reps the first week then 12 12 10 the following week(hopefully).

EDIT: On regards to the music front, I have to have my own music with me. The gym I go to insists on playing awful electropop crap or even worse indigenous electropop crap. I forgot my headphones last week and lost 2 reps on every exercise just because the music was so shyte it distracted me.
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fitocracy on my phone - can download what was log going back to 2011 :p
 
Oct. last year I started writing everything down. Makes my life much easier, especially when you want to track progress when addding only 2.5kg or so every week. I used fitocracy for a good while but eventually it became a hassle.
 
I cannot train with a phone... O_o

Tried it a few times...damn kept being left all over the place.

Ipod strapped to arm and it's go time!
 
Going to see a Biokineticist.

Had not trained in 14 days.

My elbow is ****ed, I can't even pick things up.

Not sure if it's nerve damage or connective tissue.
 
InternetSwag said:
Going to see a Biokineticist.

Had not trained in 14 days.

My elbow is ****ed, I can't even pick things up.

Not sure if it's nerve damage or connective tissue.
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I wondered why you didn't post here anymore :/ Good luck man
 
StrontiumDog said:
What did you do before it got messed up?
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Well, I think it accumulated over time and suddenly went 'nope'. I was doing one arm tricep extentions (cable) and mid rep suddenly felt this pain in my elbow, it wasn't that bad, but it got worse rather fast to the point where it is now. I suspect nerve damage because when I touch my forearm my hand tingles, but idk.

The thing that must have caused it was overuse. I was doing my normal training (chest/triceps every second day), then doing calisthenics at college and training a client at night - I prefer doing a hands on approach with my clients, so some days I would do chest in the morning and chest at night, add in some days where I had shady form I guess it was just too much for the connective tissue. Add in the fact that I was too stubborn to listen to my body.

Can't say for sure though, GP couldn't tell me anything except give me a referall and anti inflammatories :P
prOd said:
I wondered why you didn't post here anymore :/ Good luck man
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Thanks :) I hope I can get it sorted out, I hate not gymming :d
 
HDS said:
How far have you pushed yourself? Did you get proper nutrition afterwards? Muscle soreness isn't always a good indicator of if you worked your muscle effectively or not, if you get proper supplementation, rest and nutrition you will be ready to go exercise the same muscle group after a day. But that all depends, recovery times differ, with a lot of contributive factors. I always said train hard, eat properly, get plenty of rest and provide your body with proper supplementation and you are good. Unless you are doing something horribly wrong, you will grow.

I like to "think" I push to the limit, on my ending reps I usually have to "pull" in other muscles to complete the rep and then still try another rep but usually fail.

I also rarely train straight sets and am more into supersets and tri-sets as I train alone as I have found thats what my body responds too.
I damaged my wrist going heavy on pushing exercises last year BUT am fine pulling heavy weight, at 158kg for 2 reps on the deadlift.
At 140kg for 3 reps on hex bar deadlift.

Damn flu has gotten hold of me now SO I'm out of gumming for a couple days I reckon. :(
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A quick question on working out in general: how do you judge a good one? Like how do you know you've achieved something when you leave the gym? Are you meant to feel wrecked, like your body has nothing left to give?
 
The Voice said:
A quick question on working out in general: how do you judge a good one? Like how do you know you've achieved something when you leave the gym? Are you meant to feel wrecked, like your body has nothing left to give?
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As long as you are progressively overloading from week to week you had a good workout.

One should not be getting DOMS consistently.
 
Started weight-loss today, already hungry :p

Gym was also ****ty - took a fairly basic program, rest period is 45s between sets. When I got to supersetting dips and pushups - I could hardly do push ups, managed 4 per set :(



The Voice said:
A quick question on working out in general: how do you judge a good one? Like how do you know you've achieved something when you leave the gym? Are you meant to feel wrecked, like your body has nothing left to give?
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I just know when its been a good workout - you feel dead, but in a good way. Like struggling to walk down the stairs after doing legs, or not being able to take your shirt off, or wash yourself properly after shoulders/chest.
 
Started incorporating timings into my program.

3 second drop (eccentric), no pause and fast concentric. This killed me on chest...and biceps.

Amazing how such small changes and have a big impact on your workload.
 
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Orihalcon said:
Started incorporating timings into my program.

3 second drop (eccentric), no pause and fast concentric. This killed me on chest...and biceps.

Amazing how such small changes and have a big impact on your workload.
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Those timings are pretty advanced stuff. But it will have a good impact if you stuck on not doing timings.
 
How do you guys maintain a maximum amount of muscle while cutting?

I've lost a lot of strength since I began eating in deficit. Starting calorie cycling today and hoping I'll see better results.
 
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