Does anyone use Excel to track exercise?

[themaltesefalcon]

Was just wondering, really.

I use it to keep a very basic list of what I do, but given my lack of prowess with Excel, I might as well just use Word. One column has the date, one the type of exercise, one the number of minutes.

Does anyone do anything fancier? Would love some inspiration. I'm quite in awe of the Excel spreadsheet my company's finance department sends out and am vaguely aware that there is a big, unknown world of spreadsheet wonderfulness out there, if only I had some skillz... :)

would www.mapmyrun.com be of interest - you enter the type of exercise, and duration and it calculates the calories burnt. It will also track weekly/monthly exercise.

I designed an excel spreadsheet for my daily exertions, the colours are just lovely :o

It shows monthly, weekly and daily totals for the various kinds of exertions

Suspect my answer isn't exactly helpful I'm not an XL whizz kid but I can do charts and sums and what have you

Oooh! Colours. That sounds amazing, Lazysuzanne. I didn't know Excel had colours.

Wow! Now my cardio stuff is bright yellow and interval training is mauve. Thank you, lazysuzanne.

I am sure there are wonderful things to do involving pie charts but for now I am very, very happy with the colours.

stay away from pies

if you use 'fill effects' in the formatting section you can get a sort of 3D metallic effect with a lighter colour in the middle of the cell and a darker one around the outside.

For January I have 3D gold effect headings and flat pale green on the inside, with the cell borders in white.

Perhaps I have too much time on my hands

I am going to try that.

Trusty little notebook here, although it does have shiny green cover :)

I use myfitnesspal cos can log food too and it works out calories, carbs etc for you. Has an exercise diary too and you can add your own notes. Does a lovely graph of your weigh-ins. Plus easy to use and on my phone & ipad.