P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

Previously on the Finish Well Fitness Blog, we talked about the idea of keeping a journal to document your P90X journey or, alternatively, photo documenting it. We can, however, understand why you may shy away from either of those ideas. After all, if you’re doing P90X or P90X Plus, you’re already devoting a huge amount of time to your P90X workout and P90X nutrition plans. The idea of doing something time consuming like a journal or photo-documentation may seem like just too much extra effort. If that’s the case, we recommend that you keep a workout log. It’s quick, and it accomplishes lots of the same goals.

What’s a workout log?

A workout  log is just a daily listing of the important information about your workout. With P90X, we’d recommend that it include the following information:

- Time of day that you worked out

- Which workout you did and the amount of time it took

- Your weight that day

- Your calorie count for the day

- What you ate that day

- Any notes you want to make

Where to Keep your Workout Log

You should keep your workout log wherever it’s most convenient for you. It can be hand-written in a notebook, entered onto a Word document or Excel sheet in your computer, or kept on your phone. Whatever works for you!

What’s the point of a workout log?

The first point is accountability. If you know that you need to enter your workout information onto a log, you’re less likely to skip workouts or break your diet because you know that you’ll have to document it later.

The second point is for when you’re done with P90X or P90X Plus! You’ll have a record of what worked well, what you didn’t do as well as you hoped and what you enjoyed the most so that you can easily repeat those elements and make them part of your daily post-P90X workouts.

Keeping a workout log is simple, but it can have a great impact on your dedication to and follow through with P90X. It’s a quick step that can formalize your workout and help you be more efficient about getting the results that you want!