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More P90X Workout Sheets


15 Feb

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.

P90X Workout Sheets


27 Jul

I kept digging around for P90X workout sheets, and figured there probably others out there doing the same. So, in case you need them, those worksheets are on the Beachbody Fitness Tools page.

At last count, they have workout sheets in PDF format for the following workout programs (note: these links go direct to the files at the Beachbody site): P90X, P90X Plus, ChaLEAN Extreme, INSANITY, and RevAbs.

My personal favorite – currently only for P90X and P90X Plus – is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that is really cool: you input a bunch of starting information, and it keeps track of what you do in your workouts, even charting your progress automatically from the numbers you poke in as you go.

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The only downside is that the macros in the spreadsheet will not work on a Mac in Numbers or even Excel for Mac (if you have Parallels or VMWare and are running Excel 2003 or later, you’re probably fine). It will still work fine to log your workouts, but not all the functions (mostly run by some of the buttons on the spreadsheet) function.

Update: I’ve added another post on P90X workout sheets here


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Getting through P90X or any of Beachbody’s other programs can be a challenge without someone there to help motivate you. You may also not know which Beachbody workout program might be best for your needs. That’s where having a coach can make a huge difference in your success. There are, of course, many Beachbody coaches, but I’ll happily make a shameless plug for my wife, Jan: yes, I’m obviously biased, but she’s been a huge factor in my own success, and she’s helped a lot of other people reach their fitness goals, too. She really cares about her clients and friends, and works hard to help them succeed. So, if you’re interested, please contact her through her Beachbody Coach page!

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