TRAINING LOG LAB RATS ANYONE?

yeah...just put your finger on your neck or wrist artery...that should work.

OH, I forgot to mention that we should carry this out for several months...say through september?  Also mark down any significant events like a race and, of course, how u did/felt....u know, stuff like that.

more examples on a 'cheat sheet' for how u feel.

STRESS:

Level 1-You took part in road rage (worst), bigtime migraine.

Level 2- You threw something acrossed the room, have a stress headache, some cursing...etc..

Level 3-Your cursing under your breath at little sources of irritation like frizzy hair (maybe i'm way off here ladies ) OR bad coffee.  You roll your eyes much. HELP ME HERE!

Level 4-This is where most of us will be...hopefully.  We are not on top of the world stress free BUT we feel plenty relaxed.

Level 5-Nothing is bothering me today...not even the reception going in and out on the TV. (best)...remember in 'office space' right after the 'occupational hypnotherapist' keels over?  remember that music and how dude feels?  thats a level 5.

THESE ARE JUST EXAMPLES...they will be diff for everyone...some may put a level 5 as something they rearely attain or some may put level 5 as something that they acheive frequently....IT DEPENDS ON YOU.  YOU JUST HAVE TO APPLY THIS CHEAT SHEET CONSISTENTLY.

You can start now if no questions...i will routinely peek in at your logs to see how things are going for those that respond here...we may tweak a few things so the data is represented better in the graphs.  I am also going to do a little research for more scientific studies so we can maybe improve or correlate things better here.

Around August/September I MOST LIKELY WILL contact you to go over a few things and see what cool trends we were able to find AND if the graphs were helpful to you.  After that I will write an article about it.

good luck!

Sign me up!  Now I have a reason to be so compulsive about logging, and measuring time, distance etc.

Now I can blame Ron !!!!

thats absolutely bloody perfect!  for all others who havent made it over to veiw ginger ninjas log, here it is:

Overall Comments: sleep:
1 = 5hrs
2 = 6hrs
3 = 7hrs
4 = 8hrs
5 = 9hrs

stress:
1 = manic
2 = overworking
3 = average
4 = comfortable
5 = easy

soreness:
1 = strain/pull
2 = cannot train
3 = average
4 = can feel i did an exersise yesterday
5 = none

fatigue:
1 = cannot get out of bed/sleepy
2 = hard to concentrate/body tired
3 = average
4 = mild tiredness in day
5 = perfectly alert

i was also thinking...to see maximum data-spread to spot trends, MAKE SURE your you can hit the 1's and 5's of your scale every once in a while...dont make them unattainable.  AND use ginger ninjas scale as a template to design your own as each of us is diff.

Count me in too.  That way I'm more likely to log-in regularly

Do you want to know our ages too?