New Storage for my Workout DVDs

After reading about the idea on Cathe’s forums, I decided to remove my workout DVDs from their cases and put them in a binder. Today I happened to go by Target, so I found this lovely faux leather binder for CD/DVD storage. I organized my DVDs into the binder alphabetically by the first name of the instructor, and then alphabetically by workout. I was helped by my spreadsheet listing all my DVDs (there are links on the main page of the blog to my entire historical collection (which includes those I’ve sold off) and the current collection. Then I boxed up the bulky DVD cases and put them in a box in my basement.

To help me find what workout I want to do, I printed out my current Workout Collection List and put it in the front of the binder. I also printed out The Cathe Compendium and my Workout Rotation Ideas document and stuck them in the back.

By the way, Cathe Friedrich’s new 4-Day Split DVDs come in one very attractive and very slim case, so it doesn’t add too much to the bulk of my workout DVD collection. If only they were all so compact.

New Storage for my Workout DVDs

After reading about the idea on Cathe’s forums, I decided to remove my workout DVDs from their cases and put them in a binder. Today I happened to go by Target, so I found this lovely faux leather binder for CD/DVD storage. I organized my DVDs into the binder alphabetically by the first name of the instructor, and then alphabetically by workout. I was helped by my spreadsheet listing all my DVDs (there are links on the main page of the blog to my entire historical collection (which includes those I’ve sold off) and the current collection. Then I boxed up the bulky DVD cases and put them in a box in my basement.

To help me find what workout I want to do, I printed out my current Workout Collection List and put it in the front of the binder. I also printed out The Cathe Compendium and my Workout Rotation Ideas document and stuck them in the back.

By the way, Cathe Friedrich’s new 4-Day Split DVDs come in one very attractive and very slim case, so it doesn’t add too much to the bulk of my workout DVD collection. If only they were all so compact.

New Storage for my Workout DVDs

After reading about the idea on Cathe’s forums, I decided to remove my workout DVDs from their cases and put them in a binder. Today I happened to go by Target, so I found this lovely faux leather binder for CD/DVD storage. I organized my DVDs into the binder alphabetically by the first name of the instructor, and then alphabetically by workout. I was helped by my spreadsheet listing all my DVDs (there are links on the main page of the blog to my entire historical collection (which includes those I’ve sold off) and the current collection. Then I boxed up the bulky DVD cases and put them in a box in my basement.

To help me find what workout I want to do, I printed out my current Workout Collection List and put it in the front of the binder. I also printed out The Cathe Compendium and my Workout Rotation Ideas document and stuck them in the back.

By the way, Cathe Friedrich’s new 4-Day Split DVDs come in one very attractive and very slim case, so it doesn’t add too much to the bulk of my workout DVD collection. If only they were all so compact.

My Workout Journal

One thing I started this year when I started to become seriously committed (and even a bit addicted) to working out was a workout journal. The one I use is pictured above. It’s called The Ultimate Workout Log by Suzanne Schlosberg. It has some good tools. There’s plenty of room for each day as far as strength training, but I’d like more than the three short lines for cardio. I hardly need much room for the strength training, since I enter my weights on Excel worksheets on my computer instead.

The beauty of keeping a workout diary or journal is I can look back through the past and see how far I’ve come. Or if I’m feeling lazy I can look back at a week I was energetic and strong and find inspiration or encouragement. This particular journal also has nice inspirational quotes (like the one at the top of this entry) as well as trivia and other fitness information. I think it’s a decent journal and it’s been a great help to me, but I’m still looking around if I can find one even better (if you know of one, let me know). I’d like one with more space for cardio workouts.

My Workout Journal

One thing I started this year when I started to become seriously committed (and even a bit addicted) to working out was a workout journal. The one I use is pictured above. It’s called The Ultimate Workout Log by Suzanne Schlosberg. It has some good tools. There’s plenty of room for each day as far as strength training, but I’d like more than the three short lines for cardio. I hardly need much room for the strength training, since I enter my weights on Excel worksheets on my computer instead.

The beauty of keeping a workout diary or journal is I can look back through the past and see how far I’ve come. Or if I’m feeling lazy I can look back at a week I was energetic and strong and find inspiration or encouragement. This particular journal also has nice inspirational quotes (like the one at the top of this entry) as well as trivia and other fitness information. I think it’s a decent journal and it’s been a great help to me, but I’m still looking around if I can find one even better (if you know of one, let me know). I’d like one with more space for cardio workouts.

My Workout Journal

One thing I started this year when I started to become seriously committed (and even a bit addicted) to working out was a workout journal. The one I use is pictured above. It’s called The Ultimate Workout Log by Suzanne Schlosberg. It has some good tools. There’s plenty of room for each day as far as strength training, but I’d like more than the three short lines for cardio. I hardly need much room for the strength training, since I enter my weights on Excel worksheets on my computer instead.

The beauty of keeping a workout diary or journal is I can look back through the past and see how far I’ve come. Or if I’m feeling lazy I can look back at a week I was energetic and strong and find inspiration or encouragement. This particular journal also has nice inspirational quotes (like the one at the top of this entry) as well as trivia and other fitness information. I think it’s a decent journal and it’s been a great help to me, but I’m still looking around if I can find one even better (if you know of one, let me know). I’d like one with more space for cardio workouts.