This blog is for hardcore lifters, so if that’s you feel free to stick around, I’d love to share notes with people like you.

My definition of hardcore is someone that takes lifting weight seriously and is trying to improve, you might not be an elite powerlifter yet but your goal is to improve day to day and not just do any kind of workout.

I had been a regular gym-goer for a long time, maybe ~5 or more years but I was never fully serious about it up until 2022. What changed was that I started watching some youtubers (shout out to Max Euceda for all his free content on Youtube) and I learned the basics of how lifting works and how to build muscle.

It wasn’t until I started keeping track of the weights that I lift that I started to notice results in my physique and my strength. There was a ton to learn, when I started I was using the 25lbs dumbells for bench press and I had been using those for the longest time. I stopped using those and went up to the 30s, 35s and so on progressively until I now can use the 65lb dumbells, it took some time, maybe 8 months? to get there but it was worthwhile. It wasn’t easy, every time you increase the weight you can feel it and you question whether you can continue doing the next set.

So if anyone is looking to see progress in the gym I highly recommend you start tracking your workouts!

And all of this that I described is the “why” of building the app GymLog that I launched in Nov 2024.