Use Springpad to Create a Fitness Journal
We all have goals, whether it’s committing to a fitness regimen, making progress toward diet goals or re-committing to a long-lost hobby… And oftentimes a big part of success is tracking your progress. Let Springpad help!
Keep track of your daily or weekly activity toward your goal in Springpad – create notes from your computer or your mobile device, organize them by topic and access them whenever and wherever you’d like to check in on your progress.
Step 1: Create a Notebook for Your Goal
Notebooks allow you to group items in Springpad by topic or project, so you can look at your notes in a focused way. Learn more about using notebooks in Springpad.
Step 2: Enter a New Note for Each Activity Toward Your Goal
Create a new note in Springpad titled with the current date for each action you take toward your goal. Ideas of things to record:
– Length/duration of work-out
– Calories/meals consumed
– Amount of water consumed in a day
– Steps taken toward a larger goal
Step 3: Use Tags to Categorize Different Types of Entries
And if you want to get really fancy, you can tag your goals, milestones and progress as separate entries in the notebook. Weight loss is a perfect example of this. Set a goal of losing 5 pounds in 30 days (tag it with “goal”), then what you eat in daily notes. Then, weigh yourself once a week, log the result & tag it with “weigh in”.
Are you using Springpad to track progress toward your goals? Tell us about it!
7 Responses to “Use Springpad to Create a Fitness Journal”
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I am using Springpad to reach my goal of memorizing the whole book of Philippians by Easter. http://sprng.me/9khr5
One piece that I think is missing from this article is the opportunity to create a vision board using the Board in Springboard.
I’ve set up the board in my fitness notebook with my before stats (even before pictures), my top goals, exercise pics, even a checklist of things to make sure I do every day/week.
Cindy says: I’ve been trying to figure out Milestones on springpad – can’t seem to find them anywhere. Am I missing something? Great app!
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@Cindy sorry, Katin meant milestones as in possibly a note tracking a “milestone” in your fitness plan, like “Lost 60 pounds 1/18/11″
Chrystalsea says: @Trevor: I LOVE the idea of the Board with the info ‘posted’. I am a visual person and am looking forward to figuring out how all the marvelous things this app does work and can be put to use in my daily life (which is in desperate need of getting organized!).
Anthony says: I’m living in Argentina at the moment and using Springpad to achieve my goal of speaking fluent Spanish. Throw all the resources I find, links, books, tasks or ideas, even event reminders for my weekly lessons into my Spanish goal notebook – loving it!! Thanks for a great app – I was lost amongst the sea of apps before I was sprung into the light! 
Hey, this is a great idea! I have recently started using the free app “cardio trainer” to start taking daily walks. I really like it cause is uses gps to track me and show hire far I’ve walked, how fast I a walking either miles per minute or minutes per mile, calculates how many calories I’ve burned andspeaks ask this info to me as I’m walking. It also works for running out biking to. It lets you post your distance and calories to facebook and twitter. But I’d love a quick and ready way to tell it “save to springpad”. I don’t have a specific goal, but I’d love to be able to use springpad to track my progress.
It is well proven to be a major motivation tool to keep track of your progress by recording it in someway. But it also has to be easy, I’m not going to write down my distance and calories burned just so I can save it to springpad because that defeats the purpose entirely. Please partner with another developer of somekind or multiple developers of apps to make this a much more integrated feature of springpad. I only use “cardio trainer” because its free. I would quickly switch to something else if it offered Springpad integration of some sort.
Thank you guys and God bless,
Daniel
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I am using Springpad to reach my goal of memorizing the whole book of Philippians by Easter. http://sprng.me/9khr5
One piece that I think is missing from this article is the opportunity to create a vision board using the Board in Springboard.
I’ve set up the board in my fitness notebook with my before stats (even before pictures), my top goals, exercise pics, even a checklist of things to make sure I do every day/week.
I’ve been trying to figure out Milestones on springpad – can’t seem to find them anywhere. Am I missing something? Great app!
@Cindy sorry, Katin meant milestones as in possibly a note tracking a “milestone” in your fitness plan, like “Lost 60 pounds 1/18/11″
@Trevor: I LOVE the idea of the Board with the info ‘posted’. I am a visual person and am looking forward to figuring out how all the marvelous things this app does work and can be put to use in my daily life (which is in desperate need of getting organized!).
I’m living in Argentina at the moment and using Springpad to achieve my goal of speaking fluent Spanish. Throw all the resources I find, links, books, tasks or ideas, even event reminders for my weekly lessons into my Spanish goal notebook – loving it!! Thanks for a great app – I was lost amongst the sea of apps before I was sprung into the light!
Hey, this is a great idea! I have recently started using the free app “cardio trainer” to start taking daily walks. I really like it cause is uses gps to track me and show hire far I’ve walked, how fast I a walking either miles per minute or minutes per mile, calculates how many calories I’ve burned andspeaks ask this info to me as I’m walking. It also works for running out biking to. It lets you post your distance and calories to facebook and twitter. But I’d love a quick and ready way to tell it “save to springpad”. I don’t have a specific goal, but I’d love to be able to use springpad to track my progress.
It is well proven to be a major motivation tool to keep track of your progress by recording it in someway. But it also has to be easy, I’m not going to write down my distance and calories burned just so I can save it to springpad because that defeats the purpose entirely. Please partner with another developer of somekind or multiple developers of apps to make this a much more integrated feature of springpad. I only use “cardio trainer” because its free. I would quickly switch to something else if it offered Springpad integration of some sort.
Thank you guys and God bless,
Daniel