I’ve heard of people using a deck of cards for conditioning workouts. You do each suit as a different exercise, thrusters, front squats, burpees, pull ups, chins, push ups etc… Then each card is a certain numbers of reps… face value, then 10 for face cards and maybe 15 for aces, and just keep pulling cards until they are all gone…
Even cooler. Especially since I can’t find a set of dice.
The only two gaps I see in this strategy is:
1)Getting too many of one thing ie. always getting high rep work for chest.
2)Doesn’t really aim at any one goal.
#2 is not really a problem for me since my only goal is to get stronger and bigger. Since I am not a bodybuilder I don’t NEED to always grow bigger, nor am I worried about physique symmetry per se.
Since I am not a power lifter my numbers don’t need to always grow, though ideally they would.
As it stands now I rewrite my program every one to two weeks due to boredom. The only numbers that have suffered because of it has been my squat. Ever since I moved to the lifting speed cycle of my program the squat numbers have dropped. I am learning I only have one speed for squat and that is slow, so all the power cycle did was make me lift less weight more slowly.
Keeping a log would not be really any different then normal. I would simply roll the dice then write down sets and reps for the lift in my log then fill it in at the gym.
The progression part would be a toughie. I decided the only feasible way for me to do that is to track all workouts in Excel then filter on the particular Lift and try to do the best rough estimation for poundages.
