Are you ready to up your fitness game this year? If you're committed to living a healthier lifestyle in 2022, set yourself up for success by keeping a record of your progress: It'll help you stay on track toward your fitness and nutrition goals.
While it can be hard to stick with your workout routine, writing down your goals makes you 42% more likely to achieve them, a study conducted at the Dominican University of California found. Keeping a wellness journal can give you a sense of consistency and accountability — and keep you from skipping the strength-training class you already signed up for, or from ordering takeout when you have your grain-bowl meals already prepped for the week.
Use one of these motivating fitness journals to track your workouts, meals, sleep, water intake, and more, in order to stay motivated throughout the year.
Track your nutrition, fitness, and even weight loss during your 2-month-plus fitness journey with this book.
Research has shown that 12 weeks of intense exercise and wholesome nutritional choices is enough time to actually see improvements in your metabolism and potentially lower stress hormones, yet short enough that you won't lose motivation.
With this fitness and nutrition journal, you can log your number of reps, your dietary patterns (follow along with the food guidelines for every macro), and the inches you've dropped off your waistline. Set goals, track your progress, and celebrate the victories with this journal! We love that it's super compact, and can easily be tossed into a gym bag.
Runner's World recommends this straightforward, easy-to-use planner that allows for up to 140 days of fitness logging. It keeps track of types of exercise, sets, body measurements, dietary preferences, supplements taken, and so much more.
It also has pages for goals, and you can set your own deadlines to achieve them, making this a handy tool for fitness accountability.
This Workout Log Gym journal lets you set up to six fitness goals at the start. Then, track 100 workouts with up to 11 exercises per training session. Stay on top of every aspect of each sweat session with allocated spaces to record your tempo, rest intervals, and cardio efforts.
There are also two pages in which you can record your body weight, body measurements, and personal bests, so you can look back and see how far you’ve come.
Fitness isn’t just about what happens in the gym. This spiral-bound journal offers an uncomplicated way to log all your self-care efforts, from fitness and health goals to sleep, nutrition, and water intake, among others.
With 160 pages filled with health goal spreads, checklists, health trackers, and more, you can easily track your daily habits, review your monthly progress to plan ahead, and add inspiration with colorful stickers.
We found a great basic workout journal that helps you get specific with your workout goals, whether you plan on working with a personal trainer or not.
There are slots for logging your cardio, the number of reps you complete of your strength-training exercises, and even the amount of water you're drinking per day (which is one of the most important parts of staying fit and healthy).
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Best for Foodies
‘Eat Pretty, Live Well: A Guided Journal for Nourishing Beauty, Inside and Out’ by Jolene Hart, CHC, AADP
What you’re putting into your body is just as important as how you’re moving your body. Get on track to a healthier mindset and eating habits with this journal, which features goal-setting guidance, fill-in trackers, and diet checklists. It monitors up to 40 days of healthy living.
It also includes thought-provoking Q&As and self-reflection questions. If you want to become the best version of yourself, this illustrated guide is a great place to start.
First things first: WOD stands for “workout of the day” in Crossfit lingo. That said, this Crossfit journal is packed with pages and pages of workout inspo — it includes 30 Girl WODs, 22 Hero WODs, 21 Travel WODs, 10 Run WODs, 47 Benchmark WODs, and more.
Track up to 200 personal WODs (that’ll last you 8 months) using templates that include warm-ups and goal setting, strength and skills worked, the workout breakdown, and subjective measurements, such as how much energy you had and how hard a particular session felt for you.
A bonus is that the spiral binding and hard, sturdy cover are purposely durable enough to be toted around the gym with you.
Why not keep track of your wellness goals in this fun, whimsical weekly planner? Each day has slots for your meals, snacks, and water intake, along with recipe cards to jot down your favorite meal-prepped dishes. You can track four rounds of 21 days or a full 80 days with this book.
The best part is that it's small enough to keep right in your fitness tote bag or gym backpack.
For those who are less interested in tracking reps and sets, Papier's beloved wellness journals are packed with 12 weeks' worth of pages that'll help you reflect on your mindful goals, habits, meals, water intake, sleep, and things you’re grateful for.
Use the three pages dedicated to feel-good goals and wishlists to set your intentions for the year, and stay on track with body and mind, gratitude, and goal check-ins throughout. Since it's fully customizable, you can also choose from a myriad of fun covers.
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Best for Runners
‘Believe Training Journal’ by Lauren Fleshman and Roisin McGettigan
This book by pro runners Lauren Fleshman and Roisin McGettigan has all the secrets you need to kickstart your training, whether you're aiming for a 5K, an adventure race, or a marathon.
Follow their tips to get on track for your next race, and record all your runs and recovery days (very important!) each week. All the while, Fleshman and McGettigan offer motivational quotes to keep you pounding the pavement.
Ban.do always has cheeky planners, and this wellness log doesn’t disappoint. Inside, you’ll find motivational tear-out cards, activity tracking pages, and loads of inspirational advice, like how to find joy and how to embrace growth.
The best part: If you run out of pages, you can just print more from their website.
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Best for Beginners
Training for a Healthy Life: A Daily Food and Fitness Journal
This easy-to-use workout journal offers an uncomplicated way to log your efforts both in the gym and the kitchen.
Each entry contains a template to enter your daily goals, meals, which exercises you do and for how long, how much you slept, and how much water you drank — plus, there are slots for noting your mood and which self-care measures you took that day. Weekly check-ins also help you track your overall progress.
If you’re super focused on hitting a specific fitness or weight goal, this 12-week planner will keep you on track. Each daily log includes space for tracking nutrients, vitamins, water, and sleep, as well as strength training, cardio, and flexibility.
Weekly wrap-up pages keep you informed on your progress and help you spot good or bad patterns that could affect your journey. There’s also plenty of space to add notes, motivational quotes, and even ways in which you rewarded yourself.
Not every workout journal needs a ton of bells and whistles. This simple planner fits an entire week onto one page, with space for the day’s meals right next to daily workouts. There’s also enough room to note your weekly goals and call out any relevant special events.
You can track all 52 weeks of the year, but don’t worry about starting on Jan. 1 — this planner is undated.
Mara SantilliMara is a freelance writer and editor specializing in culture, politics, wellness, and the intersection between them, whose print and digital work has appeared in Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Airbnb Mag, Prevention, and more.
Ashley MateoAshley Mateo is a writer, editor, and UESCA- and RRCA-certified running coach who has contributed to Runner’s World, Bicycling, Women's Health, Health, Shape, Self, and more.
Eunice Lucero-LeeSenior EditorEunice Lucero-Lee is the Senior Editor for Best Products, and is a beauty, astrology, and pop culture obsessive whose work has been featured in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, The Numinous, and woman&home, among many others.
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