CrossFit Kids log their workouts, do you?
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I’ve been logging my workouts to my own blog since March 2009. I like the blogging format because its searchable by dates and keywords. Lately though I found it wasn’t good for figuring out historic PRs so I added some links to some Google Spreadsheets where I track benchmark WOD PRs and Lift PRs.
Here’s my blog in all its glory: http://www.frenchfrieswithpepper.com/word_press/ (For the PR spreadsheets, look at the bottom right under More French Fries)
Nice Sarah! Exciting to see someone as geeky as me on all this stuff. I log to an excel file. So I know such wonderful tidbits as the fact that I have had 254 workouts since starting at CFSBK. I have every workout logged for anything back to August 2007 in a searchable easy to use format. And if I wanted to I could graph my squat over time.
Um, Malcolm, can you send me your workout blog? I track my workouts in a notebook, which I like b/c it means I can write stuff down as it’s happening in class, but then when I switch to a new notebook I don’t have access to the history in the old one. I’d like to do a combo of paper & spreadsheet, I think. Because yes, I am that geeky. I also like the journal aspect of the paper notebook–under “Post-workout/Notes” on July 26th’s WOD from last year (a team workout of KB swings and box jumps, you may recall), I got to write, “Went into labor that night!!” Which was kind of neat.
send it to me too, Malcolm! I track in a notebook and then keep a google doc of a few key PRs, but it’d be great to be able to see change over time without flipping through page by page.
Vying for the geek crown, I have:
*a blog with every workout since starting Crossfit (June 2009 – happy last-day-of-Foundations anniversary to everyone in my group – great that so many people are still around)
*a spreadsheet of lifts (with charts when I can get them working), benchmark wods, and rowing/CFE times
*a book for the 5×5 linear progression I’ve been working on in my oh-so-abundant free time.
@Sarah,
Using tags helps with the PR tracking (ie, you can easily call up every time you pressed, for example) by at least narrowing the field of things you have to look through.
Back entering data sucks though, so maybe the spreadsheet is the way to go going forward.
Yes, Malcolm. Would you mind sharing your excel file? I’d love to start something like this, and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. There’s also the added benefit of keeping all your times/loads if they look impressive 🙂
Thanks!
Jason I don’t have your e-mail address. If you don’t want to post it you can give it to me in the gym sometime.
Katie and Charlotte, I e-mailed you guys.
Malcolm, can I have it too? I have a long history of building really excessive excel systems, but I’ve been hesitating on one for crossfit. I’ve been kind of stuck on how to compare scaled things – like, burpee w/knee pushup vs. regular or whatever.
I think you have my email, but it’s just erica.nofi@yahoo
Don’t forget there is also BeyondTheWhiteBoard:http://beyondthewhiteboard.com/
same kind of thing but on a website that is also being made into a mobile site (in beta currently). I stopped adding in the daily WODs because no one was using it, but we could very easily start it back up again.
Um, I would like the record to reflect that I’m still walking around like Robocop today because of that 4 x (400m run + 50 squats) WOD, which I did on TUESDAY.
I vote for WODs that include high-volume squats on a more frequent basis.
*Whimper*
RE: logging workouts, I haven’t done it in a while. I’d love to have a good mobile app that syncs with a Beyond-the-Whiteboard-type site, so I don’t have to take notes by hand, enter info into a spreadsheet, AND write it up on the blog. I’ve heard complaints about BTWB. But is it good? Dan R. and I had fantasized about creating our own WOD-logging website and mobile app. We could rig it so that it loads into this blog, even, since sharing our info with each other is a great aspect of the community.
@Nick: I was talking to a rails developer about putting something together, but like so many things in life — it’s not free. May I’ll have to look into learning rails…
I think BTW has gotten a lot better as it has gone on, but the developer is totally open to suggestions, so that helps. The new mobile interface is decent and allows cross compatibility with all the platforms rather than writing an app for iphone, droid, crackberry, etc. I’ve seen a lot of improvement in it, for what its worth.
Speaking of mobile, has anyone played with any crossfit iphone apps?
I have a tabata timer and a link to the increasingly ridiculous mainsite WOD, but nothing that logs/records workouts.
I am terrible at logging stuff…most lifts I remember. During the strength program, I always just looked at the board. I am pretty good with excel, maybe I will put something together. I have to get my act together with this.
@Nick: I agree that we don’t see many workouts with high volume squats, and would go further to say we could due with more volume of body weight work in general (pushups, pullups, squats, dips, situps, back extensions, etc).
@Joe: I had a few apps for the iPhone but find them all to suck when it comes to tracking stats.
@anyone: I’ve started using notes on my iphone to keep track instead. One note to a day’s workout and adding keywords. That way, I can just do a search on my little iPhone and get all the data I care about, and it’s easy to get the data to the blog as well.
Hooray! The Degraw pool is opening Tuesday!
So we passed our inspection today. I don’t know what number inspection is but it seems like it’s the last.. The owner of the building said that the paper work will take another couple weeks and then we can put in the additional pull-up bars, shower, sink etc. I’m not getting excited until construction on said projects actually starts.
What a pain in the ass it was though, they had to make the building look unoccupied so the following things happened today:
rings were taken downfront gate pull-up bar was cut downcorner pull-up bars were cut down, then welded back up afterwardsAll the equipment on the left side of the room (rowers, mats, racks, tires, speakers, couches, bumpers, stall mats, etc etc etc was piled into the right side of the room.the boiler/coat room was cleared outall the white boards including goals, leader boards and calendar had to be erased
thanks to shane for helping them set this all up in the morning. Im taking a quick water break and thoughtid post an update.
back to cleaning!
see everyone tonight
I really need to proof read more..
@David
I was hoping you’d add a 1/2 marathon to the whiteboard, but you didn’t have to go through all that trouble…
I love the geekery on this blog.
Let me dream for a second: CFSBK members write up an open-source, GPL’d app for tracking, logging and analyzing CF WODs. (Sounds like we’re pretty close :))
@Joe: Yeah, let’s hear it for June 2009 Foundations!
@Samir: yep, wouldn’t that be cool?
@David: YUCK. But, yay for passing the inspection!@Nick/Dan: Ditto to the BW volume stuff.@Malcolm: Thanks for the spreadsheet!
Today was my first day wanting to work out after being sick all week. W/O noon class today I did a 2.5-mile jog to a friend’s house to pick up a bunch of hand-me-down clothes for Linus. Felt good to be moving again.
Another vote for BTWB, works for me, didn’t know about it going mobile, I’ve been a little lax with workout logging in general lately (I keep coming to the gym with that foggy headed “what did I lift last time” look a lot.)
@David O.: BUMMER!!! Sorry y’all had to do all that. Exciting that the inspection went well though.
I use Evernote for logging WODs, usually just cut and paste whatever I post and then add tags to make it easily searchable. Not as sophisticated as Excel, but lets me add pictures easily and is completely mobile. I used to use BTWB but stopped when they started charging.
Good God, reading this makes me think I need to really work on my time management skills! When do you all have the time to do all this excell/programming/logging?
Malcolm: my email is jblock@axiomlaw.com. Thanks!