EggMcMuffin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 1:43 am
Do you guys actually read each others logs, or do the logs scream into space, echoing like an immense tomb?
Absolutely.
I'm always amused when I take a few days off and return to find that a hundred people or so have seemingly read something I logged. Barring life interferences, my routine rarely changes, and I usually chase goals in cruise control, so I always wonder who'd read it and why.
As lehman906 said, I barely read my own. Always been that way. I've always felt odd or self-conscious about going back and reexamining my own words, especially after shedding a particular mindset like an old skin. This goes as far back as my LiveJournal days as a yoot.
This makes it a little difficult when I actually want to find a load progression from a particular period in time; end up having to read more of my own shit than I care to, just to find the last time I did pullovers or some shit. Since I strongly prefer typing over writing, I've never kept a physical copy of a training log.
Training logs are the meat and potatoes of my internet perusals these days. Might even say that I look forward to reading them on a daily basis when time permits, especially when training-related discussions are sparse. It's interesting to see how people with similar strength levels approach their goals or emphasize certain movements in their training. Also helpful to get an idea of how stronger lifters program their stuff.
And the "musings" are always worth it, in my opinion. Interesting how seemingly unrelated observations can influence one's mindset during a given training day or block. I've even got a few favorite logs from lifters who no longer post that I still find to be useful for some of the training notes left between sessions (Mkgillman, chromoly, Idlehands -- even DirtyRed)...