workout journal (BODYMINDER Workout & Exercise Journal). exercise & fitness journal, easy to use with any program. Track progress,food,water, vitamins, all activity. Perfect for men and women.

Love this classic, paper journal. I am on my third Bodyminder (over the last 3 years). I also use an electronic journal and have tried making my own spreadsheets, but this Bodyminder is great and super convenient for taking with you, on the go. It is especially useful when doing a 12 or 13 week fitness or eating program since it has enough pages for daily entries for 13 weeks (or can be used for longer periods of time if not written in everyday). It helps to maintain discipline, if you commit to writing in it every day, even if just as reminders, and even if you go off track from your program (just get back on track). There is something more more real and tangible about writing in a book vs. on an electronic device. The Bodyminder pre-printed pages are close to what I would have designed for myself. I like the weekly goals, daily tracking and weekly progress sections. I do re-purpose or ignore some of the sections that are not relevant to me, but overall, the design of the journal is the closest to meeting my needs of commercially available journals I have seen. Beginning: Weekly Plan pages. Good to make weekly goals and then spots to check off your plan and/or accomplishments for each day of the week. This section is set up for daily exercise goals, but I use some of the lines for more general weekly goals. It also has a line for weekly dietary goals. Middle: Daily journal pages. It has sections for both exercise and food recording. I do like the comments, reminders and "met today's goals?" scale bar from 0 to 100%. I modify the exercise sections to fit my style; it has cardio and strength sections, as well as other exercise. Dietary notes: I like that it has space for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack (I do not fill in calories, etc but use for just recording food). I like that it has boxes to check off for water consumption and a section for vitamins. End: Starting Stats & 13-week goals, Weekly Progress (measurements), misc pages such as games & competitions, expenses. The Bodyminder is a great size (~5.5 x 8.5" pages) that makes it easy to handle and transport. It has a spiral binder that makes pages easy to write on when open or folded back on itself. Pens fit great into the spiral so they are handy and do not get lost or caught on anything. The paper is high quality with no bleed through. Pages in the front and back are cream colored and the daily journal pages are white. It has a vinyl pocket in the back for storing papers. The cover is plastic coated and holds up well going into and out of tote bags. I don't really care for the graphics on the cover but is not too bad; I suppose it could be blacked-out with a Sharpie. I like using this journal with multi-colored pens, with a different color pen for each week (use same color for the weekly goals in the front, for daily entries in the middle and for the weekly measurements in the back). I recommend Zebra Sarasa Rapid Dry Ink Gel Pen, Retractable, 0.7mm, Assorted Colors, 10 Pack (46881). Overall, the Bodyminder journal is a very well-thought-out product. It does not fully replace electronic journaling but is a nice complement. Highly recommend.

When looking on Amazon, the search inside feature shows an older edition. After purchasing, I found there have been some improvements. Notably, the dietary section now includes boxes for breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-dinner-snack. This fits nicely for people who are following a diet that requires them to eat 5-6 small meals per day instead of the old standard of 3 meals. To make room for this, the "Other Exercise" section has been shrunk a bit. Instead of having big check boxes for various activities such as gardening and yoga (which was a waste of space to people who didn't use them), there are now 5 blank lines where you can write in your own activities, whatever they may be. The cardio workout section has also been reformatted. The cross-country skier and jump rope have been removed, but there are three blank lines where people could add those back if they want. Anyway, I would say that this was already an excellent product, and it is nice to know that it improves with time. Here are some things I like as compared to other workout journals I looked at. - I like that it is both a workout and food diary AND gives plenty of space for both. It is important to pay attention to both in order to get and stay fit. - I like that it has a lot of lines for weight training exercises. Some others did not have near enough for my needs. - Some other journals I've looked at had much smaller spaces for writing in. - Some journals had pictures on the cover of fitness models. I don't want to carry something into the gym that looks like the cover of a lady's fitness magazine or a men's muscle magazine either. I prefer the conservative fake leather look of this journal. - The spiral binding allows it to lay flat for easy use. - I found the brief section of common food counts handy. Best of all, they left space where I could add my own foods. - The introductory material is helpful but brief. It tells you how to use the log. It doesn't tell you how to work out. - It has a good weekly planning section at the beginning and goals/progress section at the end. - The calendar in the back was handy for reference. I will definitely buy this one again when I have filled in all the days.

I am about to buy my second one! I love this book. I used it a year ago to track exercise and calories. I lost about 30 lbs over 3 months by logging everything in this book. I ran out of pages, so I decided to try living without it. I've tried a number of apps of on my iphone, but this book really is the simplest, quickest way to log workouts. It does only give spots for 4 sets of each exercise, but there are plenty of other places to write additional info. You can also squeeze 2 sets into one slot, if you write really tiny, or just use 2 lines. I like that there are spaces to record strength training and spaces for recording cardio. There is also a section for other activities. On days that I didn't do strength training, I would write the cardio that I did in that space on the day before and just record the date. I didn't want to waste a page for just cardio. I didn't use the food diary very much because I track my calories on-line with Fitbit. However, it is nice to have a place to write the calories totals the Fitbit gives me each day. There is a place at the back of the book to record weight and measurements. I eventually ran out of room there. I weighed more often than weekly, so I started recording weights and measurements in the "Games and Competitions" section. What I loved about this book: 1. You can record a lot of information in a small space. 2. It isn't too big to lug around the gym. 3. The ring binding is the right size for a pencil with a big eraser, or for a clip-on pen. 4. The plastic cover won't rip off. 5. The spaces are flexible enough that you can record info in a way that is convenient for you. 6. It has a plastic sleeve in the back that is handy for slips of paper, business cards, cash, etc.

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A superb, concise addition to your gym bag. Good points: Has everything you need to track your progress through thirteen weeks. Includes, a how to use section; a table of common foods and their nutritional values, for those watching their diet, with room to add your own favourites. Weekly plans and daliy activity records make up the majority of the journal. It also includes pages on your fitness expences, weekly progress, calanders and space for a before and after photo. A truely excellent piece of kit. Negative point: The only problem I can find is the size of some of the spaces to record your dietary notes. However, this can easily be remedied by writing smaller. Would recommend to friends and strangers alike. Will be purchasing more when required.

love this so easy to follow i love the instructions at the front and you can track your meals and water intake

I have been involved in strength and fitness conditioning for some 45 years and nearly always kept a training diary ; certainly when I was competing seriously in athletics. Usually I use a hard back lined notebook A4 or A5. Recently I thought I would use something a bit more pre-structured and trawled Amazon for products. This one seemed to offer a good blend of organisation and durability and so it has proved. It is decent value for money , though personally I barely use the right-hand of each pair of pages (nutrition and other comments ) so that is a bit of a waste. Not enough to deduct a mark so five stars, given good quick delivery!