Yesterday I sent out an email about going into your workouts with a plan.

When we are prepared and go in with a plan, we are a bazillion times more likely to accomplish our goal.

Think about the times you’ve gone into the gym without knowing what workout you are going to do.

How many times do you slack off because you don’t have a clear direction and feel tired from a long day at work? How often do you half-ass your workout just so you can go home sooner and eat dinner? How often do you string together random things just because that equipment is available even though the exercises really have nothing to do with your goals?

Probably all too often.

Because when you don’t go in with a plan, you aren’t going to be as motivated to push yourselves to work hard toward your goals.

Going into your workout with a clear idea of what you need to do motivates you to push hard even when you are tired. You have something you are SUPPOSED to accomplish. So even if you are tired at the end of the day and you only want to do 3 rounds, you are going to push through and do the 5 you have written down to complete.

When you don’t have something written down, you can easily adjust, but when you have something concrete written, you will push through because, most of us, don’t like knowing there is something that we didn’t do.

Also, when you don’t have a program written down you often just do whatever is easiest with no regard to whether or not those exercises or weights will move you forward toward your goals.

You will sub in other exercises that may not even work the same body parts just because that equipment is available. Or you may even turn to a cardio workout because the weights area is busy.

You tend to go the path of least resistance unless you have a guide….almost all of us do.

Having a pre-written workout is a great way to guide ourselves forward even if it isn’t the easiest or most convenient thing to do.

It keeps us on track and motivated. It guides us and even allows us to track our progress because we can make nots on what we actually did.

If we don’t write things down to begin with, it isn’t likely we are going to go home and record every detail about our workouts right after.

And if you can’t track your progress, how will you know what is working and what isn’t? How will you know what changes need to be made?

Plus if you aren’t going off pre-written workouts, you probably aren’t going to be consistent enough in the first place to truly get results!

So start going in with a plan.

Not sure how to write-up a workout? Then check out my Workout Library with 50 free ones! And if you have questions about them, email me at manbiceps@gmail.com. (Plus I even have some great ones under the workouts tab on this site!)