“If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.” (from: Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen) Baz Lurhman). Change the word “sunscreen” to “diary” and you can put my signature. Lack of (training) journal is probably the most common and meaningful mistake between people. I said common since not many people document their training. Why meaningful? Since it’s a very simple tool to analyze your training. You don’t need any special knowledge, using logging you can tell whether you on the right way achieving your goals or not. Also less time is needed to get the result or to take another course (if needed).

Regularly two types of journaling used:

• Training log – should contain frequency intensity and type of aerobics training. Additionally there should be documentation of strength training (exercises, sets, repetitions and weights). Possible add ones: pre and post training nutrition, number of hours slept the night before, general feeling during training, muscle circumference and so on.
• Nutrition log – preferably would contain two menus (time of meals and their content): the planned one and the real ones. Also might contain such parameters as: weight, body fat, perimeter of problematic areas all measured on weekly or bi-weekly basis …