Tips for sticking to your program in a busy crowded gym.

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Don’t you hate it when you go to the gym to workout and the place is packed?

For example, you plan to work chest and all the benches are taken… Or you’re scheduled to train legs and the squat rack is busy…

How can you stick to your workouts and still track your progress???

It sucks when you can’t do the exercises you want to do, when you want to do them. Ideally you would schedule your workouts during the non-peak times so you can train without interruptions. But that’s not always possible.

Rather than sitting around waiting for 20 minutes for the equipment you want to be free, it’s best to move on with your workout and do something else.

The only problem is that it can be hard to track your progress when doing this. So during those workouts where you have to deviate from your plan you should make a note of it in your training journal, and then keep records of your substitution exercises.

So let’s say you are scheduled to do barbell squats, but the rack is busy and you end up doing DB split squats instead. Just write down what you did for the DB split squat (i.e. weight, sets, reps, etc.) and then the next time you have to make that same deviation in your workouts, just refer back to what you did the last time you did that exercise and strive to beat your previous best. Either by lifting an extra 5 pounds, doing an extra rep, doing an extra set, or whatever.

By keeping track of ALL your exercises, not just the ones that are outlined in your scheduled workout program, you can keep track of your training progress and know if you are getting stronger or not.