- Spiral-bound: 160 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Second Edition edition (April 2 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0618132708
- ISBN-13: 978-0618132706
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.2 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 268 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,726,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Do you want to run a 5K this year or finish a triathlon next spring? Or are you starting your first fitness program because the doctor said you have to lose weight? Do you drink enough water, or overdo it on the carbo-loading? The Ultimate Fitness Log can assist you in tracking your fitness progress, whether you're concerned about nutrition, cardiovascular fitness, strength training, weight loss, or all four.
Suzanne Schlosberg, coauthor of Weight Training for Dummies and Fitness for Dummies, says while she scoffed at keeping a personal diary in high-school English class, she finds fitness diaries extremely helpful for monitoring her training for the Northern California Death Ride bike race.
Schlosberg starts with minichapters on how to use the log (including how to rate the intensity of your workouts), hints for finding your way among the health-club equipment, how to prevent workout-related injuries, and answers to frequently asked questions about cardio and strength-training exercises (like how to calculate your target heart rate--and how to use it). Then come six months worth of diary, with space for tracking time and distance for cardio; weight, sets, and reps for strength training; and space for nutrition notes. By monitoring your progress from day to day and month to month, you can more easily reach your goals. Inspirational quotes, fitness definitions (do you know what a "whipper" is to a rock climber?), and fitness tips are interspersed throughout the days to help keep you motivated. --Erica Jorgensen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Before you invest in the latest piece of high-tech exercise equipment, check out [this] simpler, more affordable solution. Whether your goal is to run a marathon or just make it through an aerobic class, this training log can help you get there."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
There's gotta be better books than this.,
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This review is from: The Ultimate Workout Log: An Exercise Diary for Everyone (Spiral-bound)
This is the 3rd such book I've tried and it's still not satisfactory.There are nice little quotes or info bits on the top of each page but... well, who actually reads them after the first week? And the "quizs" require you to navigate to the back of the book and try to figure out what week you're in in order to make sure you're reading the right "answer". Once the book is more than half full, it's hard to find the "weekly wrap up" page unless you use some bookmarking system of your own. After the first couple weeks, you won't bother filling in the weekly wrap up 'cause that's just re-entering info you've already entered - which seems pointless especially since you can't easily flip back through and find the weekly wrap up pages anyway. The "notes" column only lets you enter a couple words on each line so you can't write any details pertaining to a specific line. For example, if you enter your strength training info, weights, sets, etc, then want to make a comment about it, you are limited to 3 words (or very very tiny writing). There are lots of little sections to write stuff in but they are just boxes on the page labelled: Mind-Body notes, Daily wrap up and Nutrition notes. Other than the daily wrap up which should only be a wrap up and doesn't need much space, the rest are too small to list details of activities, or food eaten, so I'm not sure what you're expected to put in it. "I ate X Y Z today?" I ended up using the Mind-body area to keep track of mileage on my running shoes as there's no other place to do so, and the nutrition area is blank because it's not big enough to write my meals into. There is no place to keep track of weight or measurements either, so you'll have to stick those in a mis-named box if you want to track them. Overall, the book is satisfactory because you can track your cardio and strength and make notes (albeit in named boxes that have nothing to do with what you'll write in it) but there has got to be more useful books out there. Oh, and it's only for tracking 6 months, not the year I expected in a planner.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
PRETTY BUMMED,
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This review is from: The Ultimate Workout Log: An Exercise Diary and Fitness Guide (Spiral-bound)
HAD HOPED TO HAVE A JOURNAL THAT WAS ALL INCLUSIVE ON FITNESS & NUTRITION, AND WAS SADLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE 1 1/2 INCH SPACE FOR THE NOTES ON EATING. JUST WASN'T AS IT WAS PORTRAYED IN YOUR NARRATIVE
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Workout Log,
This review is from: The Ultimate Workout Log: An Exercise Diary for Everyone (Spiral-bound)
I'm using this log in a work up to an Ironman in 2010 and it is awesome. It has kept me on track with my base training and will work just fine for some of the more complicated workouts that I'll be doing in the near future.
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