Obsessing over training logs can be the downfall of a bodybuilder. Take Bodybuilder Bert for example… A training log is a wonderful tool to use in the gym to record your weights and reps and then refer back to them in attempts at outdoing yourself from the previous workout. Muscle building gains can be directly connected to good training log skills. But, there are also over obsessive training log behavior that can seriously do more bad than good in your muscle building efforts.

There was a guy named Bert. Bert was a confused, sometimes paranoid, bodybuilder who frequently appeared a bit disheveled and scattered.

Rumors circulated that he at one time was a contender in amateur bodybuilding but things never materialized into the pro level and ever since he’s become obsessed with his bodybuilding efforts, with hopes of possibly being re-discovered or making a comeback, or ..who really knows. But as the disco bodybuilder is training log allergic, Bert is training log obsessed. Normally I would say this is a positive quality to a degree, but with Bert, perhaps not.

Berts muscle building efforts have been hard to comprehend as he now carries a physique thats on the heavy side, and doesn’t appear to change in muscularity year after year. Instead of this being the cause of not having a training log, this perhaps is the case of having, and over-obsessing, on a training log. Bert can frequently be seen with long scrolls of paper with scribbled muscle building workouts with numbers and notes written wildly though out. He’ll sometimes spend more time sitting on a bench analyzing his training log, than actually performing his workout. Long, drawn out graphs and bizarre algorithms have been reportedly seen being scribbled on the scrolls.

Sometimes when Bert wont do so well on his training log scroll he’ll throw it on the ground and the long scroll will roll out across the gym, like a roll of toilet paper racing wildly across the gym. One time a trainee was performing walking lunges and his legs got all wrapped up in the out of control training scroll which was rolling across the gym. The man refused to stop as it would interrupt the muscle building process which was taking place, so he continued to drag the scroll, crunching, scrunching, and ultimately destroying weeks of Berts recorded efforts in the gym.

Needless to say Bert seemed about to have a nervous breakdown. We didn’t see Bert for two weeks after that.

The point is that training logs can work wonders and a little obsession about outdoing your numbers from the previous week is a good thing. But over obsessing to the point of over analyzing leading to zero progress and potential nervous breakdowns, is not such a good thing.

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