Description
- 13-week fitness planner requiring NO EQUIPMENT! It’s designed to help you track your weight/reps. This is really a hybrid between a personal trainer and workout log book!
- The journal creatively teaches you how to use your own bodyweight with simple items like t-shirts, towels, and doorways to get an amazing workout every day.
- Each workout is broken into two primary muscle groups. The workout notebook has 4 exercises per muscle group to record in your fitness log.
- Built for lifters of all levels. Each workout takes 45+ minutes. The #1 fitness journal / workout journal for women & men! The workout log book has a clear number of sets and reps to aim for 🔥 pyramid style workouts! This workout book is for lifters of all levels, including beginners to experts.
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Catherine Pitre –
The actual content of the book may be good, but the quality of the binding is very low. I ordered a copy and it arrived broken – the cover was completely torn away from the pages. I returned it and ordered a new copy. The new copy arrived damaged as well, as you can see in the picture. It was for a gift, so it’s completely useless to me in this condition. For the price, I would expect a product that isn’t falling apart from the start.
Karen Grove, RN –
I’m happy with this journal. The number of exercises each day is doable. Different body groups are targeted each day, eg. back and triceps, legs and abs. You can write in it to track your progress or reaction. I just move the bookmark each day rather than write. I believe I will be fit when I complete the entire journal, because I am sore as can be today. It was legs and abs yesterday.
No subscription, no messing about with media, no app, no video— just the written word with diagrams. If you had no exercise or weight training experience at all, you can refer to the videos that accompany each page, just scan the QR code.
Heather Macgumerait –
Been using it only a week. Not getting to it every day, but have done 4 workouts.
I like the spiral bound format. Arrived in perfect shape, plastic wrapped.
Exercises are easy to follow using the instructions in the back of the book and the videos/instructions accessed by using the QR code. For me, thusfar, I’ve seen videos for some of these QR codes and written text/images for some. Either has been sufficient for me to understand what I need to do safely and with good form. Probably helps that I have some history of working out/lifting.
I have found that there is one exercise for most workouts that either doesn’t make sense to me or I don’t do for another reason. I just skip it, still working the muscles indicated well. For example, curtsy lunges are not safe for my knees, so I didn’t do them. In that case, I chose to do standard lunges, so was able to adapt the workout to work for me.
Five Stars for customer service. Embedded in the book is an email address to send to for a bonus gift. The email address didn’t work, so I emailed customer service asking if they could honor the gift. Got a reply back in a few hours, got the gift.
What would make me give it 5 stars?
Videos for all exercises (not just written with pictures).
More space to write things down – for example, I mentioned above that I substituted standard lunges for curtsy lunges and wanted to note that, not much room to do so.
More space somehow to document other exercise. There is a small space for documenting cardio on same day as bodyweight strength training, but I’d like to be able to add cardio/yoga etc to off days as well.
Less “no mercy always work out” rhetoric at the beginning. I can certainly take that with a grain of salt, I’ve worked out before and am a grown up, but I can see that it might be off putting for someone new and struggling to keep up.
I did purchase this in a package with the dumbell workouts book. That looks to be similar, and I’m looking forward to moving on to that book after completing this book. All together, for me, that’s about a year of strength training, and I love that I can track it and see where I came from. In fact, I expect to circle back to this book after finishing both and do more reps/more sets, which will continue to build on what I’ve done.
Would overall recommend, especially if you’ve done some strength training in the past and do not have any pre-existing injuries. Definitely want to work with PT or a good doctor/NP/PA to work around active injuries, but that is true for any workout regimen.
Anthony Lanfranco –
Love the journal! Easy to follow especially with the QR codes offering examples of how to correctly complete each exercise. Good workouts and thoughtful check-ins. Space to write in notes to yourself so you can improve.
Catherine Pitre –
I ordered this book 3 times. The first one I received the spine on the book was completely detached. I returned for a refund assuming it was damaged in transit. Stuff happens. I re-ordered…the second was apparently ‘undeliverable’ so it was returned by the carrier. I re-ordered. Again. The third one looks like the photos….dirty, absolutely no cover….so I am guessing it’s the first one I ordered with the broken spine!?!? Terrible terrible. Whoever packed this to ship out needs glasses and a whole bag of common sense.
Hannah –
I like this book. I began using it this summer as a way to start working out, and because I need to lose weight. I am a total newbie when it comes to exercise, and I thought it would be a good way to learn from home, as I am self-conscious about my bodyweight.
The beginning of the book is filled with lots of good information, complete with a weight and body fat tracker. I liked what it had to say about exercise and diet; it matched what my friend, who is a nurse, has told me about diet and exercise. I decided to implement this book doing 4 workouts a week.
I began with the most basic workout. The book is designed in such a way that you can challenge yourself in every workout by adding an extra set of 10 exercises. But, starting out, I’ve just been doing the 3 sets of 10. You normally have between 7-8 different exercises per workout, so you are doing 210-240 exercises in a regular workout. The workout is divided into two parts, each part targeting a different muscle (example, a single workout may cover back and triceps). I timed my first few workouts, and I’ve been taking 25-30 minutes per workout.
The nice thing about this book is that it continually challenges you, even if you are set to do the bare minimum. After the first five workouts, the next workouts have places where you write what you previously got (so you know, of course, you just gotta do one more!). I like that, it gives me some motivation.
Now, as to results. I haven’t lost any weight yet, but I’ve only been doing this for a couple of weeks (and I haven’t changed my diet yet- I’m getting one thing at a time under my belt) so I’m not expecting anything yet. However, I am getting stronger. I went from not being able to do a plank at all to being able to do one for 5 seconds to being able to do one for 20 seconds- all within the span of a week and a half. Not a bad beginning, I think.
I aim to go through all twelve weeks the book covers, and then see where I end up. As for the book, I love how easy it is to use. I highly recommend it if you are shy and a slow-starter; it’s a good beginning.
Liesel A. –
I was reading through the journal and realized it was hyper focused on “getting cut” and “leaning out”- which is awesome, but for someone who isn’t intrinsically or primarily motivated by this as my result, the informational part of the book could have been better. I’d have liked to read more of the science of forming habits, the neurological benefits of having a healthy BMI, the ways endurance training helps cognitive function, etc. it felt like I was reading an article from Cosmo rather than a habit-forming journal.
With that said, the exercises themselves were great. The section that illustrates form and the importance of form was helpful if I was a beginner. Overall, I’m pleased with my purchase and it’s helped me form solid habits but in terms of content, it’s lacking a bit. Worth it? Yes.
Beth Galbreath –
Quality book! Looks and feels good and has a nice variety of exercises.