Do you keep a journal of your daily activity and nutritional intake?  If you are like most, the answer is "NO!"

Apparently one of the best ways to improve your overall health and vitality is to keep a health journal.  Nothing fancy is needed, just a simple composition book will suffice.  Write the start date on the front of the book and then when it is full put the end date to help keep track of things.  Save these books forever as you will be going back to look at them at some point.

What should go in the book?  Whatever you think you want to track:  workout including reps, sets weights etc, food intake (don’t forget to include the vices like BEER and WINE) including quantitites, how you felt, goals…….

Here would be a sample entry

September 8, 2008

Activity

Squat warm-up sets then 3 sets 5 (305, 305, 315 (only got 4 reps)

Press warm-up then 3 X 5 (135, 135, 140) New PR!

Deadllift warm up then 1 X 5 (405)

Back Ext 2 X 50 BW

Hamstring Flex Contract Relax 2 X 60 s each leg.

Chased kids around the beach for 30 minutes!

Nutrition:

B: 2 big cups of coffee

S1: Handful almonds

L: 2 Asada Tacos, Diet Soda

S2: Protein Shake

D: Burgers X 2, bunch grapes, baked fries

Felt pretty good today, knee pain is improved and back is painfree!  Gotta keep up with those kids……

I promise if you start this process you will find it invaluable!

Every Spartan keeps a record!