Workout logs

[Pseudonym]

Hmm... Interesting. So you only have one box for reps/weights per exercise?

I'm assuming you do more than set, so how would you mark up an exercise like this:

Set 1: 10 reps on 20kgs

Set 2: 8 reps on 25kgs

Set 3: 6 reps on 30kgs

The reason I ask, I'm thinking about putting some sort of workout log facility on the site - something a bit more advanced than just the Journal forum. But I'm not sure how it could be structured to suit everyone's different workouts.

[Growth]

The reason I ask, I'm thinking about putting some sort of workout log facility on the site - something a bit more advanced than just the Journal forum. But I'm not sure how it could be structured to suit everyone's different workouts.

Hey that sounds like a primo idea Pseudonym, maybe you can post a bit more about it and get the peeps on the board to help you out.

[Ash]

Hmm... Interesting. So you only have one box for reps/weights per exercise?

I'm assuming you do more than set, so how would you mark up an exercise like this:

Set 1: 10 reps on 20kgs

Set 2: 8 reps on 25kgs

Set 3: 6 reps on 30kgs

Nope

Just the one workset, although that's often broken up into 3 sets separated by short intervals - a type of rest-pause training. I still log the total reps as a single total though.

If I was setting up a spreadsheet for multiple sets, I would just add lots of extra rows and maybe end up with only 2 or 3 workouts on a single page.

Setting up an online version would be nice, getting it to work for different workouts would be hard. I'll give that some thought.

[Pseudonym]

Remember this is all theoretical. It's the kind of thing that takes a lot of plannning, and may never come to pass anyway. So don't get too excited just yet!

In fact, I think there's a new version of the software we use to run the forums due for release soon(-ish). It could be significantly different to the current forum software. I'd want to wait for this to come out, rather than building anything on top of a version that was going to be obsolete soon.

But it doesn't hurt to try to nut out a "universal log template". So... as you were! :wink: