Shugs: Training Logs

Training Bodybuilding
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Just to let you guys know, we staffers are following this thread and talking about the ideas presented here.

We’ll probably drop a category or two and add new ones in the future. The training log/before and after forum sounds cool to me.

I was also thinking of a T-cell Forum, dedicated to T-cells, get togethers, hook ups etc. It would be a place to organize members, find people in your area, plan things etc. Right now that stuff is spread out and gets lost pretty quickly.

Your thoughts on a T-cell forum?

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T-cell forum would be good.

A training log forum would also be good, but probably wouldn’t have enough people to participate in it if that were the only thing it was for.

I posted a thread over on the O/T forum suggesting an “On-going progress” forum (on where you could show pics) based off a suggestion of ~karma~'s on another thread. (Maybe you didn’t see it, Shugs? Had a question over there for you…) People would be able to show how they transformed themselves from fat/skinny bastards to buff bods. (Or at least have made some progress in the right direction.) It was felt by most of the respondants to that thread that this would be great not only for motivation, but peer-mentoring (the people who are fat could get advice from those who started from the same spot) and serve as an excellent advertisement for Biotest (in that the workouts, nutritional strategies and products promoted on this website actually do work for real people).

Since a training log, kept over time, is a very real sort of “on-going transformation”, it would seem that the two would be a natural fit. What do you think?

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Having a t-cell forum wouldn’t be a bad idea. We would finally get to see what all the other t-cells are up to.

'Cake, even when you start your own t-cell modeled after yourself in winnipeg, you’ll still be a part of the Alberta T-Cell.

Just promise that when you get your new T-Cell up and running you won’t make everyone recite a quote at the end of every sentence.

It can be very distracting to the conversations.

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
-Walter Lippmann

Craig

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This is an EXCELLENT idea. There should be a sepparate section which allows us to have our own weightlifting/nutrition journal, available for everybody to see. It would allow greater insight to those whishing to learn how to train like Goldberg f.ex., or allow somebody to critique their routines.

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Should the training log/continual progress forum be separate in some way from the forums? I don’t know if the “Top 5” way that the other topics are posted would be as helpful, considering the number of people that would be posting. Subscribing to say, char-dawg’s thread, if that’s who you’re interested in, would help, but with the number of lifters posting every day, it would be hard to find your person(s) in the “Top 5”, so you’ll probably be clicking over to the entire forum anyway. Just an idea.

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I think the forum log would be a fantastic idea. It would also be great if it allowed the user to attach jpg of themselves to go along with the log.

Although, instead of making it a new forum, why not just allow a log feature in the user profile? That way you could click on any given user and see what they’re up to.

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I love the T-cell and training log forums, but I wouldn’t do the “on-going progress” forum. You can do that right now in the photo forum. Just post a periodic or set interval picture, and voila, you have an on-going progress thread in an already existing forum.

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I just typed this loooong ass response and accidentally pressed reset instead of submit.

this is what I think of the training log. I think it should be a training/diet/supplementation/body mass data log.
I also think that instead of forum style, they should be searchable, sortable, and comparable. of course forums style comments could/should be made available.
but I think that this could act as one of the better marketing tools ever.
I tried hot roxx earlier this year, cleaned up my diet and worked out hard, but didnt see the results I wanted to see. I gave up on it thinking it didnt work for me. But, when I read the testimonies from the hot roxx challenge, I gave it another stab. Also kicked my ass in gear with the cheaters diet, got some Mag-10, surge, hot roxx, and lost quite a bit of fat.
The proof of seeing results in the hot roxx challenge impacted me, even though I actually tried the product and failed.

Back to the forum.

Lets say I am 18% BF and want to shed fat while gaining some lbm. I have read about hot roxx, and also this cheaters diet. I have also read about T-dawg. I could do a search for someone who is/was at 18% BF, on cheaters Diet, taking hot roxx. and see a dateline of body mass data (ie the next 18 days). I could then see someone at 18% BF, trying TDawg, and on hot roxx. perhaps on the running man and 5x5. but I could compare the lbm gains, fm loss over the same period of time for both people.
You could compare the same BF person on the same diet and training, with and without a supp, and compare.

I did something like this in my excel spreadsheet I made for cheaters, but what I lack, and T-mag has an overabundance of is eager test samples. Most of the readers on this board jump all over a new biotest product. Also, I believe that many readers are looking for a tool to help them organize all aspects of weight lifting (diet, nutrition, supp) using the principles learned on this website. Who better to develop the tool, and constraints of that tool, than T-mag authors. I know I would be on everyday uploading weight moved in the gym, tweaking my diet log online, and recent body mass msmts.
PLUS, big bonus, it would be a huge marketing tool to those skeptical readers who want a bit of proof before buying products. Who better to read from than the people who have used and seen success from the products (who arent also profitting from me buying it).

I also like the idea of incorperating a fitday kind of element to it, and t-mag recipes (rumbach) that you could drag and drop into your plan.
You could also easily incorperate new ideas into dietary planning, like the acidity factor (PRAL values)

Its just my opinion. I know I would most definitely utilize it.

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you can also have a picture area to visually chronicle your changes.

I also like the idea of a T-cell forum, so maybe we can finally organize something here in florida.

tim