Hey, everyone! I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.TV. And in this video, I’m going to show how
to organize your exercise routine and show you what’s inside my gym bag.
If this is your first time watching any of my videos, you can check out my website, Alejandra.TV
for more videos and tips on how to get organize and live a more organized and productive life.
OK. So when it comes to exercising and working out and stuff, I love to use checklists to
tract my – like track the days I work out and stuff to keep me motivated so I can like
visually see progress and then use that as a motivation to continue being consistent
with exercising. And so, the way I do that is I use a checklist to check off all the
days that I work out. But I don’t use checks. I use stickers because that’s just more
fun.
So, this is the side of the fridge right here and I have my tracker right here and then
I have Ed’s tracker right here and I’m just going to go through and show you like
how we use the trackers. So, these are trackers that are available on my website, Alejandra.TV.
I’ll put the link below and you can check them out.
But basically, I just typed all of the days inside the boxes for the entire year and then
there’s January through June on the first sheet and then there’s July through December
on the second sheet. Now technically, I could just like if it’s July, I could just have
this checklist just from the fridge and then take this one down. But I like to see my progress
so I like to see like, “Oh, I was so good the first half of the year.” So I like to
just keep that here to remind myself that I’ve been good, I’ve been consistent and
just like keep pushing forward because I have a hard time working out and just like pushing
myself. So that really helps me.
OK. So, then I use stickers like each day I work out. And I’m just going to go through
and show you the stickers that I use because I change them each month like according to
the season or the holiday because I feel like that’s just more fun like every month, I
look forward to like, “Oh, it’s July. I get to switch stickers to like a red, white,
or blue star as opposed to using all the suns I used in June.” It just like keeps me motivated.
All right. So in January, I use snowflakes because it snows in January. In February,
I use hearts and they’re all like different color hearts because it’s Valentine’s
Day. It’s the month of love. In March, I use clovers for St. Paddy’s Day. In April,
I use raindrops because like April showers bring May flowers. In May, I use color-coded
flowers. And then in June, I use suns because it’s like the beginning of summer. It’s
always sunny.
And then in July, so July, I was planning to do like rainbow beach balls. Those are
– I found these stickers and they’re so cute. But then I found the red one and blue
stars. So when July comes, I’m going to switch them to red, white, and blue stars.
And then in August, I’m going to move the beach ball to August because I’m really
excited about the beach ball. It’s just pretty and you still go to the beach in August.
And then in September, there are footballs because it’s the beginning of football season,
back to school. There’s also these little heart sticker. They’re not heart, apple
stickers. So if you’re in school, apples are more appropriate. In October, there are
fun pumpkins for Halloween. In November, there are leaves because it’s fall and leaves
fall. And then in December, there’s snowman because it snows and you can make a snowman
and stuff.
So yeah, those are the stickers. And then on Ed’s version, he has – his hearts are
different. And then in June, he has tennis balls because he used to play tennis and you
play in the summer. And then for December, he has like the male version of the snowman
so there are like female stickers and there are male stickers. So he has the male version.
But yeah, it’s just fun to use stickers.
And then what I do for – like I track when I do weight training and then I track when
I do cardio because I like to balance the two. So I’ll just put a little T for the
days that I do weight trainings so I know that’s training. And then if there’s no
T then that means I did cardio like running or elliptical or something. So yeah, that’s
how I track that.
And then I keep all of the stickers inside this little poly envelope that’s on the
fridge right here. It’s an adhesive poly envelope and it’s actually like removal.
So I could take this envelope and I could move it somewhere else and it’s still going
to be sticky on the back and it’s still going to restick. But they’re all right
here. And then I have markers for writing down the T’s here.
And then I also write down like when I travel or when I’m sick, my workout schedule is
like so up and down. When I’m sick, I don’t work out. I just rest. And so like this past
winter, I was sick twice and it took like a week, a week and a half out of me. So I
wrote down sick on here because then if I look back, I’m not going to remember that
I was sick then I see I was inconsistent so I write a note to I guess make myself feel
better. And then the same thing with travel.
So yeah, that goes here. And then – is there anything else I was going to say about it?
Oh, then I labelled Alejandra and then Ed and I used a clear label with black font so
I could still see the border right here.
OK. Then let me show you what’s inside my gym bag. So, to go to the gym, I just use
this – it’s like a beach/pool duffel bag or not duffel bag, a drawstring bag. And it’s
from Vera Bradley. I’ve had this thing for ten years. It’s actually – I looked it
up online because I was like, “What is this pattern called?” And it’s from 2004 and
I forgot what the pattern was called but it’s still holding up so well and it’s just like
the perfect size that when I go to the gym, I don’t like to carry too many things because
I’m just there to work out not carrying so many things and a lot of times, I’m coming
straight from home.
OK. So, I have my water bottle inside and then I have my iPod, which is all – where’s
my iPod? That’s in there. And then I have my lock for the locker. I have a ponytail
holder. I have medication. So I always reuse these little bottles. They’re like the travel
size bottles so I just refill them. I never threw these things out.
And then I have feminine care. I have a headband, ponytail holder, and then I have these workouts.
So I got these workouts from a trainer for the days that I do cardio, and she gave me
the workouts on like regular 8 ½ x 11 size computer paper. And for a while, I would take
that and I would just keep it in front of me on the elliptical and like you’re moving
off fast and stuff and the wind is blowing so the paper will always fly away.
So, I was like, “Well, let me just – let me figure out a way so it doesn’t fly away.”
So I got home or I took it home and I transferred it to – like all the information, the workouts,
to Excel or to Word and color-coded it so it was easy to see because when I was on the
elliptical, everything is black and white and I was going so fast and I couldn’t really
see the numbers. So I made it all pretty and big and now, I can see what I’m doing and
it doesn’t fly away because it’s laminated so it’s kind of weighted down by the plastic
of lamination. It’s kind of weird. But yes, so there are two workouts, there’s a 38-minute
workout and then there’s a 30-minute workout. And so, I just put this on the elliptical
and then they help me.
And I also have deodorant in my bag and everything is inside of a little pouch like all the deodorant,
the ponytail holder, the Advil, the headband and stuff. They’re just out of the bag right
now. And then sometimes if I’m coming from like running errands and going straight to
the gym, I will carry like an energy bar in here like a mini size. I always have like
the mini Clif Bars. They’re like the 100-calorie ones. I always keep that in here and then
just eat that before I get to the gym.
But yeah, that’s what’s inside my gym bag and this is my exercise routine trackers.
If you are looking for more tips in getting organize, you can check out my website, Alejandra.TV
and I will put a link to download the trackers in the description below. Thanks for watching
and I’ll see you soon. Bye!