The best thing about my day…
The FedEx package on my porch with this Reebok CrossFit journal inside! #it’sthelittlethings
I won one of these four (hard to find) journals through a giveaway on Carrots ‘N’ Cake last week. Tina is such an inspiration to me when it comes to CrossFit, so it was especially fun to win it from my beast of a blog buddy.
Confession: I chose the above WOD over my scheduled training run today. I thought about doing both, but then I gave it a second thought, and remembered the whole overtraining thing. I was only supposed to run an easy 2 miles, but I figured it would be in my best interest to save those miles for another time.
You may think it’s ironic that I chose CrossFit over running, when the race I’ve been training for is this Sunday… but, have you heard of “intuitive exercise”? I have no fear that I’ll survive Sunday’s six point two miles whether or not I run a single mile this week. #believe
Anyway… I’m pretty darn excited about my new deadlift diary. I’ve been journaling my workouts since late summer in an orange journal sent to me by Love Grown Foods – including every WOD since I started at the box – but it’s inspiring to have a journal designed for CrossFit athletes. I see some serious goal making in my future.
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” – my new journal
Do you record your exercise? If so, do you prefer to do it on paper or electronically?
Do you exercise intuitively or according to a strict schedule?
What made you happy today?
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Thursday Things
I record my exercises on the blog! Before my blog I use to record them in a notebook!
I have been looking for an all-in-one journal that would let me record my cardio, resistance training, HIIT workouts, and Crossfit. I gave up and made my own. But I will have to check out Reebok’s to see about tweaking what I have. I record most my workouts on weighttraining.com, but need a paper form while in the gym.
I used to log every workout with weights & reps (in a Hello Kitty notebook :)) and it was so motivating to see how I progressed. I just started at a box last Friday and will be logging all of my WODs since I definitely plan on improving. I try my hardest to exercise intuitively, but if I write a workout down in my planner, I want to cross it off bad. Something to work on! CrossFit made me happy this morning. :D Good luck on Saturday!!
I record my workouts in an Excel spreadsheet. For non-running cardio, I include my time, average heart rate and calories burned; and for running, I include my distance and average pace. I would say I am a mix of a scheduled and intuitive exerciser. I rarely force myself to do a certain type of workout if I’m really not feeling it, but I do have weekly goals of what I want to accomplish in terms of my workouts that I try to reach by the end of the week. A live Santa and a holiday harpist in the lobby of my office building made me happy today! Tis the season!
In regards to keeping an exercise schedule, I just plan on putting in 30 minutes of cardio & 30 minutes of strength training each day…but within that, I’m pretty flexible!
I think I need an exercise journal. I’ve been so sporatic lately, this would be perfect to keep me on a better schedule.
I have been using my Google Calendar, but only adding it after my workout. It would be nice to have something just for workouts!