How to Create Your Training Log

[Mehdi]

Why You Should Start a Training Log

• Free Support. You'll get help from other knowledgeable forum members for free.
• Personal Accountability. You get an audience, forum members can follow your log & progress. This can all help with your motivation.
• Sense of Community. Many people train alone and don't have friends who are into lifting & dieting. Forum can bring you "virtual" friends and can be sort of a mastermind.
• Awareness. You can look back at your own progress and see what works for you and what doesn't. Knowing where you've been helps you plan for where you are going.
• It's 100% free!

I really debated about starting a log. This journey gets very personal at times. It's hard to announce to the world things you didn't even want to admit to yourself. But that's why I did it. It needed to be right in front of me so I could deal with it head on. And I needed support to get through it. Who would have thought I'd find that here of all places. But I did. These guys have been a great help and encouragement through some tough times for me and they probably don't even realize it.

How to Create Your Online Training Log

• Click here to start your training log.
• Enter in the subject line: Your_username Training Log. Example of my log: Mehdi's Training Log
• Post your personal stats: gender, age, height, body-weight, body fat.
• Post your strength stats: squat, deadlift, bench press, overhead press, pull-ups, chin-ups.
• Post your goals: what do you want to achieve? Be specific. Bad: "I want to lose fat". Good:"I want to get to 10% body fat".
• Post some info on your background: how did you got into this, what's your motivation behind this, ...

How to Get Feedback in Your Training Log

• Add value to the forum. Help people on the forum and they'll return the favor. Commenting in their logs and giving encouragement & advice if you feel able.
• Add a link to your training log in your signature. Go to your user control panel and insert:
  

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  [url=http://stronglifts.com/forum/your-training-log.html]Your Training Log[/url]

• Now when you post in other people's logs they can easily reference your training log through your signature link.
• NOTE: You need to have more than 4 posts to be able to use a signature.

Compete Against Other Forum Members

• StrongLifts Strongest Man: check what's possible in your weight class and compete for the StrongLifts strongest man title.
• StrongLifts Strongest Women: we've got women deadlifting twice their body-weight here!
• StrongLifts Olympics: join your national teams and compete against teams.

Check out the Challenge category for more competitions. Feel free to start your own too.

[Mehdi]

Code for stats in signature, small and neat. Edit as you like.

includes:
· a link to your log - just replace the URL with the one pointing to your log and change the name (My Training Log) if you want to
· metric stats
· imperial stats

go to your User Control Panel and insert:

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[size=85][url=http://stronglifts.com/forum/training-logs-f10.html]My Training Log[/url][/size]
[b][size=70]182cm · 87kg · 25yo · 5x5 PR: Squat 100kg · Bench 70kg · OHP 45kg · Row 70kg · Deadlift 1x5x130kg[/size][/b]
[b][size=70]6'0" · 192lbs · 25yo · 5x5 PR: Squat 220lbs · Bench 155lbs · OHP 100lbs · Row 155lbs · Deadlift 1x5x287lbs[/size][/b]

(Thanks to Helm for this!)