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iTrainedToday was built to enable athletes to keep a log book with the minimalistic fuss possible.
Achieving that is tricky since it’s so tempting to want to add all sorts of scientific data into the log book (because that’s what most log books do). However, the principle behind iTrainedToday was to try eliminate all that and focus on enabling the athlete to record the bare minimum which still makes the logbook valuable.
Obviously, there will be arguments for and against this style of record keeping, but this is the chosen direction of iTrainedToday, love it or hate it.

Introductions aside, there are 5 key components which are worth recording in any log book:

• goals
• races
• health events
• measurements
• and naturally, training sessions

data recording

goals

Although goals have to be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based) you don’t always need to record every pinch of detail about it. It’s quite OK to set yourself a goal for the season and leave it at that. iTrainedToday just keeps that goal on your radar so you never lose sight of it.
Achieving that goal is up to you.

races

Races are important to note since they are periods of higher intensity performance (usually or rather, should be). The timing of the races is important to note amongst your usual training sets since you can retrospectively note the performances of training/races and health events.

health events

Health events are useful just to note. For example, you got a cold and finally (or quickly) got over it. Note it down since over time you want to pick up any patterns of illness related to training and/or racing.
Include in health events your mood swings (depression, anxiety, anger) as well if you find they are quite out of the normal. These are also early warning signs for overtraining and thus extremely valuable to note.

measurements

These are useful for achieving goals and combined with health events also help you monitor and determine trends and patterns in your training schedule.
The measurements are purposely open ended so that you can measure weight, blood-pressure, biceps, resting pulse; whatever is most relevant to your training.
Unexplained anomalies in measurements should be carefully noted (like unexplained weight loss or gain) since they are also early warning signs of over-training.

training sessions

And of course, what log book would be complete without actually recording your sets?

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when you start with iTrainedToday, you will be prompted to add a journal.
 

 

Once you have a journal (you can also create more than one journal) you can record your data against that journal from a single dashboard.
 



 

Adding goals (as an example) is straightforward and immediately after adding a goal, it will appear on your timeline below.
 



 

Health, measurements, races behave in much the same way and provide quick feedback when they appear on the time timeline.

Adding in the training session require a little more information but follows the same pattern as the “smaller” elements.
 



 

And to view more information about an event on your timeline, just click on the event itself.