Workout Log Template

A workout log on paper outlasts every app, because the app changes and the notebook does not, and the number you lifted last Tuesday is the only thing you need to know today. Most printable logs are a grid of tiny cells with no room for a weight and a rep count both. This one is drawn for the two numbers: every set is two boxes, the weight and the reps, big enough to write with the pen that lives in the gym bag.

The exercises are written in. The free version has a sensible seven, the compound lifts and two bodyweight moves, and the paid version takes yours, up to ten, in your words and in your order, so the sheet reads like your program rather than someone else's. Five sets across for each, which covers most programs; a sixth set goes in the notes.

Under the lifts, a cardio block on a switch: two rows for activity, time, distance and effort. Under that, notes, which take whatever height is left, for the thing you want to remember next time: the bar felt light, the knee did not. Dated or undated is a switch too; dated writes the day in full in the header, undated prints a line for it.

Six color themes, one of them light ink for the log printed every session. The name line under the title takes a program name (Week 3, day A) or your name, if the sheets go in a shared binder at the gym.

Print it at 100%, not fit to page, on plain copier paper, and keep the filled ones; a stack of them is the only progress chart that never lies. The free version is this design with the sample exercises, in the Slate theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot. The paid version carries your exercises and your title, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.