Making Plans? - Download Your Free Training Log
When it comes to making a training plan and keeping a log it really is no use keeping it all in your head. A training plan or log should be either of the paper variety or logged on a computer. That way you’ll always have a reference to what you should be doing next week and what you actually did last week.
The training log/diary I’ve produced is a simple PC version written in excel. What it does above that of the paper variety is automatically calculate individual weekly statistics as well as yearly totals for all your training sessions.
It really is very easy to use. Simply enter detail into the necessary fields and the excel formulas will do the calculations. I’ve also added a template to the file with some relevant notes.
The main ‘training summary’ tab is the sheet where the calculations are presented, so you can view all individual weekly statistics as well as the statistics for that year. You don’t need to alter these values as they’re all automated and doing so could alter the displayed stats. I’ve protected this sheet for this reason, however you can un-protect the sheet with the password ‘training’.
All of the ‘Wk #’ tabs are where you should enter the relevant detail such as swim, bike and run distances and times as well as text entry for route, session and weather. Don’t alter the ‘Total Daily Training Time’ fields for each day or the ‘Weekly Total’ fields at the top of the sheet as these are again formulas to give you the automated calculations on the ‘training summary’.
If you have a future training schedule in mind or you’re currently mid schedule you can quite easily transfer your data into the log. If you prefer your training plan ‘schedule based’ and not based around training dates, simply change the day and date fields accordingly to phases, cycles and week numbers.
I’ve also added a couple of other fitness related fields in too, including weight, resting heart rate and BMI (or % body fat). These are a good guide as to how your training is progressing. With endurance type training you should hopefully see your resting heart rate, % body fat and weight reduce as the schedule/log/plan progresses.
Working to a plan or scheduled log is a great way to give structure, organisation and direction to your training which will ultimately lead to a direct and positive impact on your competitive results.
Download your free training log (courtesy of Trispace) right here. You can do as you wish with the log. Rip it into you own design, make modifications or not use it at all. The choice is yours!
Happy Training……and logging!!
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