Blank Exercise Charts

Blank exercise charts are a useful tool for any exercise regime. They allow for custimization and allow you to hold yourself accountable.

What Is an Exercise Chart

An exercise chart is simply a chart or table listing the types of exercises you should do, how many sets and repetitions, and when you should do them. This type of chart is helpful because it provides a visible, tangible record of your fitness routine. Without it, you will easily forget exactly what exercises you did yesterday, how many sets and reps, what weights, and even if you worked out at all.

A preprinted exercise chart generally lists basic exercises or those pertaining to a specific program. These are helpful if you are following an established program and wish to follow it to the letter.

A blank exercise chart, on the other hand, allows you to customize the chart, showing only the exercises that you want to do. If you are creating your own exercise program, you'll definitely need a blank chart. You can customize the entire chart, including:

• Colors, design, and other visual factors
• Exercises listed
• Reps
• Sets
• Health information, including weight, measurements, BMI, heart rate, and pulse
• Workout duration, especially for cardio exercises
• Intensity, especially important for interval training

Free Blank Exercise Charts

The internet is a wonderful place to begin your search for blank exercise charts. With many of these charts, you simply click and print.

Kids' Exercise Charts

With the growing concern over childhood obesity, it's no wonder that more emphasis is being placed on exercise workouts for kids. For children, the point is just to get them moving, so most charts simply have kids write in whatever activity they've participated in. Try not to be too picky about types of exercise-- walking, running, biking, hiking, and any other active game counts as exercise. Here are a few blank exercise charts for kids:

• Girls Inc. provides a very basic, colorful chart geared towards young girls, tweens, and teens. It leaves space for the type of exercise, number of minutes, heart rate, and recovery rate.
• Chubby and Sluggish provides a more gender-neutral chart for kids. It provides daily space for type of exercise, starting time, ending time, and notes. This is in PDF format, so you can either print it directly from the screen or save it to your computer.
• Womens Deals offers a variety of charts to organize your kids, and two deal with exercise. Both offer incentives for exercise, one offering television time in exchange for exercise and the other offering video game minutes.

Exercise Charts for Adults

Charts meant for adults are usually more specific as to types of exercises. Most focus on either strength training or cardiovascular workouts, but some provide space for both.

Healthy Living Lowdown provides a blank chart with a very streamlined look. It has space for date, exercise, set, rep, weight, goal, and comments.

Spine Universe has an exercise chart geared towards seniors, but anyone desiring a more active lifestyle could use it. This chart lists specific activities, such as brisk walking, tennis, bowling, stair climbing, and swimming. Scroll down to find the chart, right click, and select "save as".

Make Your Own Chart

If you have a word processing software, such as Microsoft Word or Works, you can make your own blank chart. Simply create a table and label it according to your own needs. You might create space for:

• Days of the week
• Specific types of exercise
• Strength training
• Repetitions
• Sets
• Amount of time
• Amount of weights
• Notes, comments, tips, and suggestions

Regardless of the chart you select, a table or chart is only as good as the effort you make. Your chart will get you on the right track, but you have to actually do the exercises.

• Pictures of People Exercising
• Women Fitness Models
• Male Fitness Model

• Breast Lifting Exercise
• Contour Abs
• Naked Exercise
• Naked Pilates
• Hula Hoop Exercises

• Sporty Kids Exercise Clothes
• Small Exercise Bike
• Printable Exercise Log
• Senior Citizen Exercise Tools
• Daily Exercise Chart