by Tom Venuto

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BURN THE FAT INNER CIRCLE NEWSLETTER April 13th, 2007

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In This Issue (April 13th, 2007)

* F r e e Burn The Fat Inner Circle Fit Tip * Inner Circle Member Updates & What's New

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::: Turbo Charge Your Training Journal :::

Burn The Fat Inner Circle Fit Tip By Tom Venuto

An old Chinese proverb says, "The palest ink is better than the best memory."

Writing goals and plans down on paper is the first step towards achieving them. As Tony robbins says, "If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real."

when every part of your fitness and nutrition program is put into writing, this ONE discipline alone has the potential to literally skyrocket your results.

Hopefully, you're already writing down your goals, workout programs, training schedule and menu plans... If not, start by writing down your goals, then write down the action plans (workouts and menu) that will ultimately lead you to the achievement of those goals.

Once your training program is in writing, the step that takes your results to the next level is to keep a training journal. There's no way you can intelligently make optimal progress from one workout and one training cycle to the next if you dont keep written records.

Training journals are a powerful motivational force because they create accountability to yourself. If you share your journal with a coach or training partner, then you've instantly created double accountability - first to yourself and then to someone else. Put your journal on the web like many of our Inner circle members have done, and now you have massive accountability and motivational leverage.

If you like to use one of those fancy journals with all the columns and rows for sets, reps, etc already printed in them, or if you like to keep your nutritional intake in an electronic online journal, by all means, do that! But for starters, a plain old notebook will work just fine.

Your journal must contain, at the minimum, date, exercise, sets, reps, and weight lifted. However, you can be much more detailed and creative with your training journal...

You can even "turbo-charge" your training journal by adding a rating scale to a number of KEY objective and subjective measures. What gets measured gets done... But what gets "graded" gets done even better.

Here are some (but by no means all) of the things you could include in your journal:

Objective & Physical Measures:

Day/Date Goals for this workout Time started Time finished Exercises performed Number of sets Number of repetitions Amount of weight used Tempo (repetition speed) Rest intervals Intensity effort level Goals for next workout Cardio: type, duration, intensity/Heart rate, calories burned, perceived exertion Time to bed last night Time out of bed/hours of sleep Sleep quality

Subjective & mental/emotional measures: (rate yourself on scale from 1 to 10, or yes or no, where appropriate)

Recovery from previous workout Discipline/stick-to-it-iveness Positive attitude support system in place Concentration/mental focus during workout Read goals/affirmations (how many times) Visualization/mental rehearsal Quality of sleep Level of stress/relaxation Scheduled and set goals for tomorrows workout? Look better today? Overall day

If you don't get straight "10's", don't worry. Few people do, and no one does 100% of the time.

It's not necessary or even possible to be perfect all of the time, but there's nothing wrong with striving for excellence and asking yourself, "What do I have to do to make tomorrow a 10?"

You can very easily identify weak-link areas in your training and nutrition when you "keep score" and rate your performance in multiple areas in this fashion.

The theory of multiple constraints , proposed by Eli Goldratt, says that between you and any goal you want to accomplish there is a limiting factor, or constraint, which acts as a bottleneck which ultimately determines how quickly you will reach your objective.

For example, your training and nutrition may be perfection personified, but if your sleep is inadequate and low in quality, that can limit your best efforts in the other areas and choke up your overall progress.

There may be ONE area of weakness which is the only thing holding you back, and you can't fix a weakness if you don't know you have one.

Your job then, is to identify the bottlenecks or limiting factors by first choosing the skills, disciplines, results and actions that are critical to your success in reaching a particular objective, and record them in your journal, the same way you would record sets and reps. Then, simply rate yourself in every area.

Be sure to "grade" yourself in areas that are not just physical. Peak performance experts say that the primary obstacles between you and your goals are very often mental or emotional. If youre only journaling sets and reps, you may be missing the real choke point.

A training journal can give you feedback, provide you with motivation, and hold you accountable. It can make you feel good about your past acheivements as you reflect on how far you have come...

But a TURBO-CHARGED journal can help you identify, improve and break through what could be the ONE roadblock that's really holding you back from reaching your true maximum potential.

Sincerely,

Tom Venuto, www.BurnTheFatInnerCircle.com
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