NewMe Fitness Exercise Planner

This has been a game changer for my overall fitness. The notebook itself is excellent quality, and it has enough space for me to get a whole week of workouts in on a single page. It's simple, yet very effective, and exactly what I need to track my workouts.

I don't need a fitness journal that constantly strokes my ego or one with with trite and saccharine motivational phrases; I just want something to track my exercises, reps and weight used for each exercise. This journal is perfect. It has a diagram of the muscles with the names of exercises to work each group and "before" and "after" pages for your body measurements. There's also a page to list your goals with a deadline and a plan to get there. As for the workout log pages, they are blissfully simple. There are spaces for the date, current weight, start time, stop time, lines to log each exercise with the number of sets (plus reps in each set) and the weight used for each set. On each page there is also a notes section. I find this helpful if something went well or wrong during my workout session. I also like the spiral binding so the journal lays flat when open. In addition, I the log pages have a spot to track your cardio workout as I use cardio to warm up and to improve heart health. The same hold true for the nutrition tracker. Simple and easy to use format. Would purchase again and recommend to others.

I liked the size and style of this journal but there are a couple of things that bother me. First, I'd like a column to track fiber as well as the other macros. You could eliminate serving size and put it there -- I enter the serving size when I'm putting the item in. Second, I would love it if you would put the macros in order of how you'd find them on a package. Calories first, then fat, carbs, fiber and protein. As it is now, I enter these all in backwards and it's sort of annoying. Lastly, give me 1/4" more room between the last column and the spirals. Other than that, this is a very good journal. No issues with the spiral binding, it's not cheaply made, and there are plenty of things you can use to monitor your day. Oh, I guess one more thing would be a ribbon to use as a place holder? I added my own, but having one included would be nice. Thanks!

I use Lose It to track food and exercise, but Lose It doesn't have options for including detailed info about workouts. I use this book to list exactly which exercises, weights, reps, etc. I do each day. There's a short section for cardio, and there's a small area for writing in anything additional I want to add. I use that space to track specifics about my cardio and stretching. It could also be used to track other things that Lose It doesn't track, like water, vitamins, etc. Most important: The book holds up well. The pages don't fall out, and after two months of use there are no tears along the spiral. I had previously tried a different weight-lifting journal that fell apart completely the second time I opened it. The NewMe journal is much better! I ordered the two-pack, and when I run out I'll get more. Hmmm... I hope they're still available next year. Maybe I should go ahead and order a couple more packs now! Using with NewMe card decks: I didn't even realize until writing this review that the journal is made by the same company that makes the workout cards I use. That explains why the journal and cards work so well together! In the journal I write the card number along with the exercise name so I can easily refer to the cards later. Even though most people's workouts include three to six exercises, the journal has room to list sixteen. That's plenty of room for my experimenting days, when I grab 16 new exercises from the cards and do a set or two of each, just to have fun trying something different. The journal makes it easy to track the new exercises I try so I can look back weeks later to see what I'd tried that was too difficult or didn't seem effective at the time, and I can decide if I want to try those again. Most days, I fill half or a third of the list space, and I use the rest of that space to write notes about specific exercises for that day (for example, if I decreased my normal weight amount to work on form for a particular exercise, or if I put my bench on a different angle than usual for a particular exercise, or if I feel like I've maxed out my dumbbells for an exercise and need to remember to buy heavier weights, etc.).

This book is great! Pros: Enough room to log lots of exercises and well organized to quickly track and analyze progress. Thoughtful layout allowing you to comprehensively log not only the structure of the workout but energy levels, future improvement ideas or current achievements Sturdy pages where inks don’t bleed through Quick muscle and measurement guides with tips on exercising each group Logging and journaling is super quick and easy All of the pros are why I purchased this book. After doing extensive research on other products and digital apps this journal appeared the best solution to me because it has everything I need and is a lot quicker to jot down as you move along than it is to scroll through menus on apps. If there is one slight adjustment I think this book could use it would be to expand on the cardio section a little bit. It would be nice to log time intervals, running cadence, or other details that get a little crowded in the small cardio section of each page.

I probably searched for over a month for the "perfect" workout notebook. I have been tracking my workouts on some terrible app that only saves the weight for my last reps, and I know I have been doing a disservice to myself by not being able to keep track of when I should progress in heavier weights. This book has EVERYTHING. I'd honestly say this is a book geared more towards intermediate/advanced lifters. The people that are spending close to two hours at the gym. It has 14 lines for 14 different exercises and goes up to 6 sets (I couldn't imagine anyone doing anything further in sets. But I 100% use almost every single line) A LOT of other books have like, 5 lines for exercises, and 3 sets, if that. Those are your more beginner people. I also love that this book has a SUPER SMALL SPACE for cardio. I saw SO MANY books with like, half of the page dedicated to cardio and some, 4 lines for exercises. What? Yeah, Id like to just keep track that I ran 3 miles in 30 min on X day-coo, you need one line for that. Im not trying to write a dissertation on a quick run. Marathon runners, idk what y'all are doing, but this probably isn't the book for you then. Can you tell that was one of the most irritating things I ran into when looking for a book? I love that this book has a place for the date, day of week, time the work out started and finished, etc. AMAZING! Also, the beginning pages have some great pages on how to measure yourself for BF tracking and a whole page dedicated to Goals and tracking weight/BF/1-Rep Maxes and literal 4 OPEN SPACES for you to track whatever! (here would be a great place to track the measurements of your neck, waist and hips to show yourself you are getting smaller even if the scale isn't moving) but you can literally choose whatever you want to track there (maybe more 1 rep paxes for you power lifters out there? idk) Anyway, its awesome! They also have two pages dedicated to pointing out some general muscle groups and some suggested exercises you could do. This is great for this days when you are winging it and think "Id like to hit back one more time but I cant think of what to do" BOOM they have you covered. I think each book is 25 weeks if I remember correctly bringing you to almost 1 year (and lets be real most of us are not working out 7 days a week) so the deal with 2 books is amazing. I really cant say enough about this book. I absolutely love it. I have already recommended it to everyone I know. I do wish the front wasn't so dorky lol. But an easy cover up with some duct tape and you will be fine. BOOK IS STURDY AND THE PAGES ARE STRONG. IT IS NOT A HARDCOVER BUT STILL A VERY STURDY BOOK! Im not worried about my pages getting ripped out at all by having it bounce around in my gym bag. Okay. I think I covered ALL of the small details that I was looking for when searching for a book. If y'all ever discontinue this book please let me know so I can buy the entire rest of your stock because I doubt I will ever find anything more detailed ever again. THANK YOU!!!

Helps to keep up with workout and diet. Highly recommend

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I originally chose this book because I liked the way it was laid out. It gives plenty of space to record multiple workout and sets and I liked having the space at the bottom of each page where I record some extra notes about my workout if needed. Design: I like the contents of the book and have been using this style for a solid 5years and have purchased this book multiple times over those years. However the quality seems to have gone down over time. I find the binding starts to split and pages pop out after I am only halfway through the book. The cover has fallen off my last 3 copies and then the pages start to fall out after that. I carry my book in a gym bag so it does get tossed around a bit, but if it was just a spiral binder there wouldn’t be any issues.