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Are You Keeping a Bodybuilding Workout Log?

If you’re not keeping a bodybuilding workout log how do you know if you’re making progress in the gym or not?

Your muscles may look and feel fuller this week but that may be due entirely to your diet.

The fact is that for your muscles to get bigger; your bodybuilding workout has to consistently and progressively get harder and harder.

And the best way to assure yourself that each and every workout you endure is getting harder and harder is by logging your stats in a bodybuilding workout log.

Bodybuilding workout logs are great because you never have to wonder how much weight you pressed last week. You don’t have to worry about what weight to warm up with and how many reps to do. And finally you don’t have to worry about what your max weight is and for how many reps!

I like to keep notes in mine about how certain exercises affect my muscles and whether or not I should do them again the following week.

Based on some of the notes I’ve made and taken, I’ve come up with some “cheat sheet workouts” which are some of my favorite and all-time best bodybuilding workout combinations. Super-sets, drop-sets, giant-sets…it’s all in there.

And this is an amazing resource when I go into my gym and I just don’t “feel it” or I just can’t seem to get it going.

I just look up my cheat sheets (maybe slam a Red Bull or something) and start attacking the weights.

You know how it is when the blood starts filling up your muscles and you start getting pumped…

And when you can turn a bad workout into a good one; that’s when you start to make some real progress!

If your goal is to get bigger; you should be keeping a bodybuilding workout log.

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