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IOL Group Training Log
Accountability and encouragement are two very powerful factors in logging workouts publicly. Anyone who participated in the End of Year Challenge knows this, if they didn’t know before our group accountability project. Most ended the year in a better place physically than when they started the challenge in October, which is pretty much not the case with the rest of the crew. (Or so I’m told.)
Let’s take this a step further. While challenges made too frequently will eventually die a slow death as people get bored and drop away, we can still use the group training log as an often-changing model under which the rest of us can follow along at home.
Think of this – our IOL Co-Op Training Log — as an opportunity to learn new exercises, workout combinations or lesser-used training tools. Each month a new group of three or four trainees will plot their workout plans in advance, tell us their purposes for the month and log their progress, ask questions, and give or take feedback as considerations come up in the journals. The trainees will have somewhat related goals, and the goals will change each month as the trainees surrender their spots to other loggers.
The following month another group of loggers will demonstrate entirely different regimes. You can follow along at home, changing up your workouts month to month or retaining the exercises and programs you enjoy.
The trainees will pre-plan and post their scheduled routines at the first of each month so the rest of us will know what to expect, perhaps to select a program to follow on our own, and to be able to make adjustments to account for equipment variances.
This will introduce readers to new training regimes, and to challenge us all to keep our training regularity during busy times or stressful months.
February (that’s tomorrow, days are getting longer, did you notice?) we begin with three guys who are training with the basic movements, squat, deadlift, press, plus assistance exercises. As a bonus for our opening month, Wicked Willie will run a squat rehab guidance program designed for those with a problem squatting well, and which will be helpful for anyone who wants to learn good squat form.
Come on, get in on the adventure while it’s on the tarmac preparing for take off.