Food and Exercise Journal
So I had this idea that I wanted to do a Steve Pavlina type trial. Steve has done several trials that have been very popular, including a polyphasic sleep trial and a couple raw food trials.
Two questions should come to mind. Why do you want to do a trial and what will your trial be?
First, why. I am currently researching building online revenue streams. Two common paths are affiliate marketing, where you advertise someone else’s business and they pay you for the sales you generate, and online advertising, where people pay you for space to advertise on your site.
Now I am approaching both with this trial. What if I can find a product, that the best way to promote the product is to show documented results that the product works? If I document my experience with the product over a trail period, I can kill two birds with one stone. I will be promoting the trialed product, and hopefully create new followers of the site, which will increase potential ad revenue.
This is starting to sound like a get rich quick scheme. It isn’t really, I don’t have any experience with marketing blogs or products, and I will need to learn both to get rich. What I do know, is how to eat and exercise.
And now, what will I trial? I have no idea, but I expect it will fall into the supplement, diet or exercise categories. What I don’t know is if I can actually keep track of everything I need to to make for a good trial.
First things first, to find out if I can keep track of my eating and exercising, I have started a food and exercise journal. This is nothing fancy right now, it is just a spiral notebook left over from school. Once I have proven to myself that I can actually keep track of everything I want to keep track of, and that I want to continue with this nonsense, I might actually buy a Moleskine or some other “nice” notebook.
The format of my notebook is currently free form. I tried to find some templates, but this apparently is not as common as I would have thought. I think I will discover would have been a helpful template to follow.
Drawing the line in the sand, I wrote down my weight, bodyfat percentage and all the common lifting measurement (arm, thigh, waist, chest, hips and neck). No pictures of me in a speedo yet, but proper documentation demands it. Now that I have just finished dinner, it would be a great time to take a belly shot!