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Start Your First Training Logbook

From zero to your first logged session in ten minutes — set your unit, pick a routine, and stamp your first set.

Level
Beginner
Read time
6 min

A logbook only works if you actually use it, so the goal of your first session is not a perfect setup — it is one real workout on the page. Here is the fastest path there.

Set up in three steps

  1. 01Pick your unit — KG or LB — to match the plates at your gym. You can change it later and everything converts.
  2. 02Choose a starting routine from the program library, or build a quick one from the exercise catalog.
  3. 03Open today’s session and stamp your first set the moment you finish it.

The first honest set on the page beats a month of planning the perfect app.

What to log at the start

  • Weight and reps for every working set — the raw truth.
  • A note if something felt off, so future-you knows why the numbers dipped.
  • Nothing else. Do not over-engineer it on day one.

Come back tomorrow, let last session pre-fill, and beat it by a rep. That loop — log, review, add a little — is the entire method. Everything else in Bikkel just makes it faster.

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Technique

How to Warm Up the Right Way

Programming

Build Your First Routine

Put it into practice.

Open your logbook and turn this guide into a real, logged session.