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I don’t really agree with keeping an article to be honest, you know what your best are and if you keep taking big attempts at them then you are making progress. When you start missing weights at lower weight and it becomes a consistent problem, then you are starting to go backwards. But I can remember what I hit all time and if that is not improving then i am astarting to go backwards and that is not good.

I don’t really agree with keeping an article to be honest, you know what your best are and if you keep taking big attempts at them then you are making progress. When you start missing weights at lower weight and it becomes a consistent problem, then you are starting to go backwards. But I can remember what I hit all time and if that is not improving then i am astarting to go backwards and that is not good.

I don’t really agree with keeping an article to be honest, you know what your best are and if you keep taking big attempts at them then you are making progress. When you start missing weights at lower weight and it becomes a consistent problem, then you are starting to go backwards. But I can remember what I hit all time and if that is not improving then i am astarting to go backwards and that is not good.

That is very interesting…Did you know that ALL of the top weightlifting teams in the world make their athletes keep a journal full of their #’s? The Chinese do (I have spoken to a chinese coach personally who was a 1980 Olympian and is still a consultant for the Chinese Team). It may not be for everyone, but, for people who want to be the absolute best or for people who want to simple increase their chances of adherance to an exercise progrma it can be a tremendous idea.

Max, do you always remember everything that was happening around the time you were starting to miss weights? are you sure that you weren’t making progress just because of your training, or is it possible that it could be due to something else? do you always (without exception) stick to the same routine in terms of sleeping, eating, stretching, warming up, set/rep progression?

if any of these things are ever different, how are you supposed to know when something is changing? just cause you are missing weights at lower numbers doesn’t mean that it isn’t due to something other than your focus/strength at the time of your training.

we aren’t saying that you have to keep a journal, it is completely up to you. but if you want to be able to see how things might be affecting your training, don’t you think it is a good idea to keep track of it so that you can go back and check and maybe see if something you changed might be the cause of results, good or bad?

I think its imnportant to remember you max attempts. So i think it would be smart to write down all your maxes but i dont think it is necessary to write down your entire workout like i see people doing. Its a waste of paper to write that you warmed up with the bar or 50kg when you snatched 130kg in the same workout.