Water bottle I've been going to the gym fairly regularly again. Today, I seriously hit a wall. It was a good wall, though. I'm up to 43 push-ups and nearly 60 sit-ups. I might yet make that 100 push-up thing. My arms actually look
fabulous. My abs, on the other hand, are sad. Not tragically so, but still. I continue to deserve the privilege of the Utilikilt, but I won't if I don't keep my manly physique.
One of the biggest problems I have at the gym is remembering what I'm supposed to be doing right now. I used to bring a 3x5 card with me with all of the exercises on them on the counts and all that. Carrying the card in a pocket, finding a flat surface on which to write, and all of them, became terribly tedious.
This is my lifehack for the week: leave your workout spreadsheet on the laptop. Write down at most a weeks' worth of data on a sticky note and tape that note to the water bottle. It's just a notesheet; you don't care if it lasts more than one workout session anyway. When you're preparing to go to the gym, sit down and write out your day or week's schedule, in whatever idiosyncratic form you want, on the note, then tape it to the bottle.
This works for me because I never forget my water bottle. I don't really need a pen during the session; I can pretty much remember my successes or failures within a single workout. With the numbers right there, I know what I'm supposed to be doing and what sequence I'm supposed to be doing it in. If you have trouble keeping track of your immediate workout demands, this hack might be good for you, too.
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