- Commit for the long-term
- Set a schedule for your training
- Focus on the best exercises
- Start light and train for volume before intensity
- Make SLOW progress each week
- Record your workouts
What gets measured, gets managed.
Recording your training is especially important because it brings all of these points together.
You can look back and see how you’re making long-term progress (point #1). You can see on which dates you trained and how often you were on schedule (point #2). You can verify that you did the best exercises each workout (point #3). You can see how you are slowly building up volume and developing a foundation of strength (point #4). And you can prove that you’re making slow, methodical progress each week (point #5).
* Source: James Clear – 6 Truths About Exercise That Nobody Wants to Believe