Track your main lifts like you track calories. Log just the first two or three exercises per workout—squat on leg day, bench on push day, deadlift on pull day—to stay consistent without the overhead of recording every isolation movement.
One thing I don't see enough is people saying, hey, you need to track your training. We all say progressive overload, we know that's the way to make progress and build muscle, and that's great, but you do need to be tracking your lifts, kind of like tracking your calories. And I think learning some habits of tracking your nutrition can have really good carryover to your training. And there's simpler ways of tracking your nutrition. So for example, instead of tracking every single macro—protein, carbs, and fats—you can just track calories, or you can just track calories and protein. And the way that I carry that over to training, it's kind of like flexible training. Instead of tracking every single exercise, right down to every bicep curl and isolation movement you do. Just track your main compound lifts. So if I'm doing 6, 7, 8 exercises in a workout, I'll just track the first 2 or 3, and you'll still reap so much benefits from just doing that. So let's say you have a leg day, a push day, and a pull day. So on your leg day, you have the squat— that's your main compound. Push day, you got bench. Pull day, maybe you got deadlifts. So if you just track squat, bench,
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