Bodybuilding Journals - Improve Your Physique With Training & Food Journals

Bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts are becoming more and more conscious of their training regime which is helping them improve in their workouts. Keeping a journal not only allows you to see what you've done, but also gives you insight into the direction you are going.

Ask any successful bodybuilder and he will tell you that a training/eating/everything journal has helped him/her to learn about his body and make the adjustments he needs to be a champion. A journal serves many purposes for a bodybuilder, a few are listed below:

• It helps to keep track of your progress
  
  
• It helps to measure changes in training intensity, food volumes, weight fluctuations, etc.
  
  
• It serves as a motivating factor It helps to remember what you did at your last workout so that you can make sure that you keep increasing your intensity
  
  
• It helps to find flaws in your training and nutrition strategies It helps to find successes in your training and nutrition strategies

Your Training Journal
Your training journal should keep track of the following:

• Body part trained
  
• Exercises used
  
• Weight used for each exercise
  
• Number of repetitions for each exercise
  
• Time trained
  
• Any other info you might find useful

I also find that it helps to rate each workout on a 5 star system i.e. 5 stars for an awesome workout, 1 for a bad one. This helps you find workouts that work for you and dump ones that don't. It also helps to give comments on why the workout got the rating it did.

Your Nutrition Journal
Your nutrition journal is really the most important one. In order to be a successful bodybuilder you need to eat the correct proportions of protein, fat and carbohydrates, a journal helps to keep track of this. Your food journal will help you gauge if you are getting in enough of the right calories.

The following should be kept:

• Time of your meal
  
• As accurately as possible, the type and amount of the food you are eating
  
• Comments on how you felt after and before eating the specific meal

Creatine Monohydrate
Creatine's purpose is to supply our muscle with energy. It is also found in red meat, but you would have to eat an enormous amount of meat to get the same benefits as taking pure creatine powder. Try adding it on your diet, you will again energy and have great workout.

By Katumba Samson