I have kept a training journal ever since I started working out and it is one of the best things that I did that helped me achieve my fitness goals. It’s always interesting to look back at my different training routines and exercise programs and to see the results that I achieved while following them. This helps me to see what worked and what didn’t and plan successfully for the future.

Here are 7 good reasons why you should keep a training journal and track your workouts too.

Hold Yourself Accountable

There’s nothing worse than looking in your training journal and seeing days that you have skipped in your routine. This is a big blow to your self confidence and your ego.

Keeping a training journal will help you to hold yourself accountable for your success or failure of your program, no matter what your goal is. You will have to answer to you and only you.

Motivation and Inspiration

It’s always motivating to see where you started, how far you have come and in what direction you are headed. There may be some days that you really don’t feel like going to the gym to work out but once you take a look at your training journal and see the progress you have made you soon find yourself motivated to keep the progress rolling.

Measure Your Progress

There only other gauge besides this one is the progress you see in the mirror. Keeping a training journal will let you monitor your strength increases form week to week. You can also keep track of your weight and body part measurements in your journal if you want. Regardless of what you chart besides your workouts, measuring your progress goes hand in hand with my previous point on motivation.

Learn From Your Mistakes

When you have a record of everything that you have done in your training program, you can always look back to see what worked and what didn’t. There may be times when you embark on a program that took you backward at some point. It’s easy to correct any mistake when you have the reasons right in front of you.

Build Self Confidence

When you hold yourself accountable, are constantly motivated, can see how for you have progressed and have learned from your mistakes you will build up your self confidence. Self confidence is so important in your quest for excellence and a training journal will only help you create it.

Seeing that you have outperformed your own expectations will open your eyes to the fact that you really can do it! A training journal will help you to take it to the next level.

Plan Your Next Step

The past will help predict your future so take a good look at your training journal and plot your course for what’s next.

Your journal, like a map, will provide you with great insight as to what road you shall take and how long it will take to get there.

It’s all right there in front of you; what worked and what didn’t. So take in all of that information and plan your work. Then work your plan.

Happy training!

Yours in Success,

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The answer is quite simple.

It’s because the successful people have specific goal strategies that they use when setting goals and have taken the necessary steps needed to successfully achieve them.

So what exactly are these strategies that they have used to achieve their goals?

Here are five goal strategies to guarantee your success:

1. Set a deadline

The first and most important step in the goal setting process is to start with a long-term goal, write it down, and take into account when you actually plan on achieving that goal.

In other words, set a deadline.

Then you must stop and ask yourself why this particular goal is important to you. Try and be as specific as possible and visualize this in vivid detail, explaining how the achievement of this goal will change your life for the better.

Once this long-term goal strategy has been documented, break the goal into tangible smaller steps that need to be taken in the process.

2. Be 100% positive that you really desire the goal

Ask yourself these questions:

“Do I really and truly want this goal?”

“Will the achievement of this goal better the quality of my life?”

When you stop and take the time to answer these questions, it will give you the burning desire to achieve your goal. This goal strategy will help you to “get clear” and what it is that you truly desire.

3. Talk about your goal strategies

You shouldn’t really keep your goals to yourself.

Why?

When you share your goals with someone who is close to you that you trust, it can help you get the support you may need and it also ads to it the element of accountability.

I know that there are many of you who are concerned with telling others about your goals because you are worried about the consequences if you happen to fail.

Contrary to this belief, telling someone else about your goals means that you are more likely to achieve them either with their support or in-spite of them.

4. Put your goals in writing

In my opinion, this is the most important goal strategy of all.

This particular strategy will burn your goals deep into your subconscious mind. From there you will begin to experience synchronicities happening in your life that will lead you to the bull’s eye of your target.

Once you have put your goals down in writing, be sure to review them on a regular basis. It’s also a good idea to keep them with you on a 3×5 index card to remind you of your goal at any time of the day. This will help to keep you motivated and focused.

The important part of this process is that you have to discipline yourself to stick to what you have written.

Do not just write them and tuck them away somewhere where they will be out of your mind. It’s much wiser to keep them where you will see them.

It’s even a good idea to stick your goal cards on the refrigerator or on the bathroom mirror where you will see them several times throughout the day.

5. Never, ever quit

Writing your goals down and reviewing them regularly will help to keep your mind open and tell you if you are on the right track.

While on track, you may have to face adversity and obstacles which might change your perception of your reality.

When in doubt, though, never be discouraged.

Facing obstacles and roadblocks on your path serves as a test to prove how dedicated and determined you are to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself. This goal strategy will all boil down to you preparing yourself to face anything and doing everything that it takes to conquer your goal.

Remember this though: only you can make it happen.

Nothing can stop you when you set your mind to something and make a commitment to taking action.

Follow these 5 goal strategies and you will follow the road to success!

Be Unstoppable!
Yours in Success,

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