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peaking

How to Use Your Logbook During a Strength Peaking Block

A peaking block is the final 2-4 weeks before a competition or max test. Volume drops, intensity climbs, and the goal shifts from building strength to expressing it. Your logbook during a peak looks nothing like your logbook during a volume phase. The data that matters changes. Bar speed matters more than total volume. Sleep quality matters more than accessory work. Readiness signals matter more than whether you hit your rep target.

May 19, 2026•8 min read
#peaking#powerlifting#programming#meet prep#logbooks
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mobility

Mobility and Stretching Tracking for Lifters Who Hate Stretching

You track every working set but ignore the mobility work that determines whether those sets happen pain-free. This guide gives you a paper-based mobility tracking template that takes five minutes, fits on the same page as your lifts, and makes flexibility progress as visible as your squat PR.

May 18, 2026•16 min read
#mobility#stretching#recovery#tracking#body and recovery#injury prevention#flexibility
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accessory work

How to Track Accessory Work Without Overcomplicating Your Logbook

Your main lifts deserve full tracking — every set, every rep, RPE, rest periods. Your accessory work does not. But ignoring accessories entirely means you have no data on the exercises that fix weaknesses, prevent injury, and build the muscle that supports your main lifts. The solution is a tiered tracking system that matches detail to importance.

May 16, 2026•8 min read
#accessory work#tracking#logbook#training log
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combat sports

Strength Training Log for Combat Sports: Boxing, MMA, and BJJ

Standard gym logs were not designed for fighters. Learn how to track strength, sparring intensity, conditioning, weight cuts, and recovery from contact in a single logbook system that keeps your fight camp on course.

May 15, 2026•15 min read
#combat sports#boxing#MMA#BJJ#fight camp#sport-specific logging
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home gym

Best Workout Logbook for Home Gym Owners (2026)

Training at home changes everything about how you log. No spotter means you track safety differently. Limited equipment means you rotate exercises based on what you own, not what a program prescribes. No clock on the wall means rest periods drift unless you write them down. A logbook built for a commercial gym misses these details. Here are the best options for lifters who train in their garage, basement, or spare room.

May 13, 2026•7 min read
#home gym#buying guide#logbooks#comparison
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candito

Candito 6-Week Program Logbook Template: Periodized Strength and Hypertrophy

Jonnie Candito's 6-week program is one of the most popular intermediate powerlifting templates online. It breaks training into three distinct phases: a hypertrophy phase with higher reps and moderate weight, a strength phase with heavier loads and lower reps, and a peaking phase that builds to a max test. Each phase has different tracking requirements, which means a one-size-fits-all logbook page does not work.

May 12, 2026•7 min read
#candito#powerlifting#programming#template#logbooks
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stronglifts 5x5

Stronglifts 5x5 Logbook Template: Simple Tracking for Linear Progression

Stronglifts 5x5 works because it is dead simple: two alternating workouts, three exercises each, five sets of five, add weight every session. But even simple programs need tracking. Without a logbook, you forget where you left off, miss deload triggers, and have no data to tell you when it is time to graduate to an intermediate program.

May 11, 2026•6 min read
#stronglifts 5x5#logbook template#beginner#linear progression
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mindset

What to Write in the Margins: Mental Notes That Make You Stronger

You walked into the gym feeling invincible and squatted a 10-pound PR. Two weeks later, same program, same weight, and you could barely finish the working sets. The logbook says the numbers changed, but it does not say why. The answer is usually in your head, not your muscles. If you are not logging your mental state alongside your physical performance, you are missing the variable that explains most of your best days and worst days.

May 8, 2026•8 min read
#mindset#logging#mental game#systems#training data
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average to savage

Average to Savage 2.0 Logbook Template: Tracking Auto-Regulated Progression

Average to Savage 2.0 is one of the most popular auto-regulated programs in strength training. Designed by Greg Nuckols, it uses your AMRAP performance on the last set of each exercise to adjust future training loads automatically. The program ships as a spreadsheet, but many lifters prefer logging on paper during training. The challenge is capturing enough data on the page to make the auto-regulation work without turning your logbook into a math worksheet.

May 7, 2026•7 min read
#average to savage#programming#template#auto-regulation#logbooks
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