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Planning & progress

Build a training routine you can follow and keep track of.

Before replacing a programme with a new one

A new plan can be useful. First identify what it is meant to fix in the one you already have.

The minutes spent lifting are only part of a gym visit. Set-up, rests and the walk between stations also belong in the estimate.

The number on a weight stack identifies a setting on that machine. It is not a common scoring system for every machine in the gym.

After time away, the old programme is useful history. It is not automatically an instruction to repeat the last recorded session.

A training goal becomes more useful when it tells you what to practise, what to record and when to review the arrangement.

An unchanged number can mean several things. Check the record, the task and the programme before deciding what should change.

Choose the recording method you will use between sets, not the one with the longest feature list.