What do you log?

[platypus]

What do you guys log?

I currently log my workouts with warm up and work sets like the example in the book. I'm curious if anyone logs more or less than this.

[A Schenck]

I record worksets only. I'll make a note if something was different than normal (sleep, food, equipment, illness). And I'll make a note of the why's if something is different from the planned workout (ex. missed reps, sickness, travel).

In the past I've logged weight, sleep, calories, warm-ups... but I've found the more complicated my paper log gets, the more likely I am to "forget" to log.

[BenM]

Peruse some of the logs and you'll see

I log warmup; sleep, steps, calories, etc. even used to log what movies/music I used to get me through. That was probably overkill.

[Ivey]

I try (poorly) to log things I think will interest others. My personal paper log is just work sets. My forum log includes stupid stories I think will help someone using the search function.

[ithryn]

Work sets, failures, recently discovered memes

[Christopher Anderson]

As a competitor I log my warm up sets as well as my working sets. I have found this to be beneficial when I am at a meet and I am in the warm up area, I know what weights and reps to warm up with as I get ready for my attempts. It helps me now the time I need to rest between sets, how I felt and all that jazz. So when meet day comes I am not thinking about my warm ups or my jumps, because I already know what I need to do based on my training cycles.

[Mark E. Hurling]

Lifting:
Work sets and reps.
Time elapsed of session.
Calories burned.
Average heart rate.
Peak heart rate.
Post lifting stretching.

Conditioning:
Time elapsed of session.
Calories burned.
Average heart rate.
Peak heart rate.
Post cardio stretching.

[Mark E. Hurling]

Hm, just noticed no edit function.

Add type of equipment used or activity performed for Conditioning segment.

[platypus]

Time elapsed of session.

Never thought to record how long my lifting takes, but that's definitely valuable training data.

[bubbafat]

In my gym notebook I log the date and time, a title (e.g., "SSLP workout A" or "Volume day") and then my complete record of lifts - warmups and working sets. I'll usually add a one word note to remind myself how things felt next time (e.g., "heavy", "easy", etc).

I use a relatively small notebook (the "rite in rain" 3x5 softcover memo book - water proof paper is the only way to go) but I'm planning to go to a larger one soon. I am finding I want more room to write things down. I'm also looking at writing my full plan (and coach's cues) out ahead of time - an "expected vs actual" log - so I can see not just what I did but what I intended on doing.

In my online training log I add more details and observations about diet, weight, sleep, a note about how I'm feeling, stories about my kids and dad jokes.