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    My Workout logbook HELP please

    Good afternoon and Happy new Year,

    I have made a workout logbook that tracks my progress as well as workout planning.
    It is a 12 week logbook with progress I have exercises laid out and basic progress working BUT not how it should be. This is were I need help.
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    Each tab is labeled (Week1-week12), on each sheet there is a detailed layout of a workout routine. You will click the "Category" and a drop down will appear(here you will select what muscle you want to work), next you will select "Exercise" and a drop down will appear(here you will select what exercise you want to do). Next you will enter the weight you are going to work with for each "set", total for each set as well as exercise Total will calculate themselves by formulas.

    I need help with calculating my totals for each week on my "Progress" tab. Again you will click "Category" and a drop down will appear(here you will select what muscle you worked out on), next you will select "Exercise" and a drop down will appear(here you will select what exercise you did). I am not getting the full week for any exercises, I can only get it to see and calculate the first day of the week and nothing more. Also if someone can help me figure out how to do my average time of workout that would be great!!

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    Brian
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    Re: My Workout logbook HELP please

    This in cell E3 will work.
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    You can copy it to other cells and change the part in red to suit the column you wish to sum as appropriate

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    Re: My Workout logbook HELP please

    As for the averages, you'll need to strip the time element of out of the green cells before you can manipulate them to get average times.
    I would use a helper column with a formula like the one below to do that for each row. This will work on Day 1 of each week but copied down to subsequent days and it will adjust.
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    You can then use AVERAGE on those cells and then average those averages on the Proress sheet to get a monthly figure.

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    EDIT: IGNORE THE FORMULA HERE. AFTER THINKING ABOUT IT A LITTLE, IT WILL NOT DO WHAT YOU NEED.
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    Re: My Workout logbook HELP please

    ...and a happy New Year to you too.

    I fear you are making the same mistake that I see time and time again. You are mixing up the two elements of data capture and final reporting. The two require quite different treatments.

    A lot of people start by designing the forms/layouts that they expect to see as the final report or which at first glance seems the best way of capturing data, and then wonder why it's so difficult to subsequently analyse and summarise or extract information from it. Yours exhibits all those features.

    You should always capture data in a simple two dimensional table and worry about reporting information from it afterwards. Without exception in doing this you will always be able to easily obtain management information. Rarely is this the case if you start the other way round. You will also throw open the whole wonderful world of the powerful Pivot table functionality.

    So before you get too far with this I'd create a single sheet database that contains the following columns

    Date
    Category
    Set
    Rep
    Weight
    Total
    Start Time
    End Time
    Stretch Time
    Rest Time
    Notes

    Then analysing the data by week will be achieved with either a Pivot Table or by standard SUMIFS() formulae
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    Re: My Workout logbook HELP please

    Thank you guys for your input. I will look in to both ways.

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