Tracking your progress for P90X or any other workout routine is critical. To paraphrase Tony Horton, there’s no way you can tell where you are if you don’t know where you’ve been. It’s also a great motivator to watch the changes in your body’s strength and appearance, and to look at the numbers to see how much more weight and reps you’re doing now than when you started!
I did an earlier post on P90X workout sheets (or P90X log sheets) that are available from the Beachbody site, but decided to scour the web a little bit to see if I could find some others. I was specifically looking for spreadsheet-based workout logs or applications, rather than PDF files that you could just print out (so you won’t find any of those here). I didn’t find as many as I thought there would be, but here are the ones I found. Just as a note for Mac users: some or all of the spreadsheets contain macros that probably won’t work; the basic functionality may still be there, but some of the buttons and so on might not work right.
P90X workout sheet and P90X Plus Excel workout sheets on the Beachbody site. These are free and are probably the most popular workout sheets out there.
P90X Log sheet on Paulymath.com – Looks like a nice spreadsheet-based workout log. Requires email subscription to get the link to the spreadsheet file.
Excel Workout Tools – These tools are available in a variety of places, but it looks like all of them are available at this site. There are spreadsheet workout logs for P90X, P90X Plus, Power 90, and 10-Minute Trainer. They look like they’re well-rounded tools, but the downside is that they’re not free ($9.95 each).
WorkoutSoft – This isn’t a spreadsheet, but is a program that you can use to track your progress in either P90X or P90X Plus (there are separate apps for each). Again, they look quite capable, but are $19.85 each.
Free P90X Workout Sheet – I didn’t scope this out directly, but the site says it’s a simple spreadsheet to track five of the major exercises. So for those whose eyes glaze over at the complexity of some of the other spreadsheets, this might be an option to consider.
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Thank you for this awesome review!
A few additional point:
- The Beachbody worksheets were actually created by us (WorkoutSoft). We sold the rights to Beachbody and they’re now distributing them. The only issue is that they don’t provide tech support for them (they even left my contact info on them but I’m not allowed to provide support)
- You’re right about Mac support. The vast majority of the Excel products out there won’t work in Office 2008 for Mac because of the lack of VisualBasic macro support.
- XtremeFit Tracker is the only P90X tracker out there that’s an actual software. This not only allows us to provide many more great features such as customization of the workouts but it’s also the only solution that allows us to provide feature updates. With Excel sheets, there is no way to provide updates to the sheets without forcing the user to erase all of his/her data.
- Our software is fully cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux)
- We’re working on a very significant update of XtremeFit Tracker. Your readers may want to keep their eyes on our Forum (http://www.workoutsoft.com/Forum/) for previews and updates.
Thank you again for this exhaustive review.
Best of luck to all with P90X.
I’m a nerdy athlete, a nerdthlete, if you will, with lots of experience using software and spreadsheets. I am just getting started on the P90x program, but I really wanted to have something that would track my progress quickly and easily.
I tried a couple of the spreadsheet options but they all seemed really cumbersome. Then I had the bright idea to Google “P90X software” and up came XTremeFit Tracker for Mac. This program is the perfect solution. Not only can you track all of your exercises and diet information, but you also can track all your body measurements and even add pictures of yourself so you can visually observe your progress. XTremeFit Tracker is extremely user-friendly, includes all the features you could ask for without being bloated with ones that you don’t. It makes recording information seamless during workouts and easy all the time.
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