Workout Tracker Work-Around
Not that I expect many people are reading this, but I’ve been using the workout tracker and think that it is generally a good tool. To the extent that you want to track overall volume, it can be misleading if you enter the weight for a single dumbbell or cable stack when you are doing movements involving both arms (for example, if you do a set of 10 dumbbell bench presses with 50 lb dumbbells, it will track the volume as 500, not 1,000, which is the accurate number, given that you are pressing 100 lbs overall). I’ve started entering the total weight (dumbbell or cable x2) for movements where I’m moving both side together (presses, cable crossovers, etc.) or entering two separate sets of information with the single side weight (one for left and one for right) for movements where I alternate (concentration curls, cable lateral raises, etc.).
November 28, 2007 at 12:33 pm
also remember for assisted pullups and dips, type a negative in there for how much you use. well, unless you want to weigh yourself before and after each workout, subtract that weight from the assist used…… I just call bodyweight zero.