Use an exercise log sheet to record all of your workouts and exercise activities!
Tracking your weight loss exercises can be a very powerful tool in your weight loss efforts and overall health improvement. This is a great way to hold yourself accountable and stay motivated.
As you record your exercise with an exercise log, it is important to note details about the activities you are doing. For example, if you go for a run, you would naturally enter the distance you ran. But it is also useful to record your time, pace, and comments about how you felt during your run and details about the course. This provides much more information over time to see your improvement.
If you are weight training, it is important to keep track of the various lifting exercises, amount of weight for each, and number of repetitions. Entering comments about your intensity level and how you felt with the current weight and reps will help you determine when to increase the weights or reps, for example. When incorporating a weight training regimen, you should alternate different muscle groups on different days. An exercise log is a great way to keep track of what you did during your last workout and what you should do during your next workout.
Exercising consistently and seeing these results in an exercise log is very motivating, making it much easier to maintain your consistent activities. Looking back through your logs over time provides a real sense of accomplishment as well as a valuable history. If you begin to experience pain during your runs, for example, your log may provide some indications of the cause. Have you increased your mileage significantly over a short period of time? How long have you been running in your current shoes? Your exercise log will provide this level of detail.
Whether you have been exercising regularly for a long time or you are just beginning to exercise, use this free exercise log sheet to track all of your activities (opens in a new browser window). Whether you are running, weight lifting, swimming, cycling, or walking the dog, keep track of what you are doing. This log can be adapted to many different activities to provide a useful record of your exercise.
Another way to keep track of your exercising efforts is to use one of the many online tools. This one, for example, tracks the number of calories used based on your weight and the length of time spent walking.
But it is also useful to record your time, pace, and comments about how you felt during your run and details about the course. This provides much more information over time to see your improvement. 
