The Most Overlooked Workout Secret

Keeping track of your workouts will keep you on track and help you get the results you want.

By Kevin Valluzzi        

What is the one thing most people overlook that can have a huge impact on the success of their workout program? Intervals? No. Free weights? No. Rest periods? No. Although these are all great, there is one thing that seems to always go overlooked: keeping an exercise journal and writing down your sets, repetitions, rest periods, etc. I see it all the time when I go into gyms and fitness centers. I even see trainers training their clients and not recording anything. How does the trainer know how many reps their client did during each workout? The sad thing is that the trainer probably has them do the same amount of reps each workout, thus explaining why they aren't getting the results they deserve.

That's why I created a workout journal to help busy women keep track of their progress--and to make sure they continue to push themselves. The journal has every exercise listed, along with rest periods. The only thing the user has to write down is the amount of weight they are lifting and the number of repetitions they did. It's as simple as that.

One main reason for keeping an exercise journal is to make sure that you are improving with every workout. That's right--you should make some improvement with every single workout you do. That could be anything from lifting a heavier weight and doing the same amount of repetitions or doing more repetitions with the same weight but in the same amount of time. (That's the secret behind my Busy Woman Fitness workout program. There is no set amount of repetitions; you do everything based on time.)

So make sure you start to keep an exercise journal you can download the first page of my journal as an example and then create your own--or get the full journal as a bonus when you purchase the Busy Woman Fitness e-book program. Either way, if you write down what you do, you are bound to get fit faster!

Kevin Valluzzi is a fitness professional and is the author of the highly successful e-book, Busy Woman Fitness.