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Excel Training System

Connect planned sessions to actual training, personal records, and coaching decisions.

Active workbook · explanatory scientific case

Read the 52-week periodization case

Updated September 2026

Microsoft Excel · Structured tables · Formulas · Data validation

The problem

Training data often lives in disconnected sheets, notes, and templates, making it difficult to plan, review, and improve over time.

My contribution

  • Designed the workbook workflow from planning through actual session entry and review.
  • Connected structured tables, formulas, validation, completion checks, records, and charts.

Evidence you can inspect

Training Blocks feed Workout View and prefill Session Log. Actual results remain editable; completion separates performed work from a plan.

The public specimen follows one fictional session through a log and a record interpretation. Its three completed sets contribute 1,500 kg-reps. An unfinished entry contributes nothing to the completed-session total.

Inspect the inputs and calculation

This is a synthetic explanatory illustration, not an exported athlete workbook. The Progress Dashboard and record boards are described in the case; this small specimen does not reproduce every sheet or formula.

Fictional training example: three completed sets of five repetitions at 100 kilograms total 1,500 kilogram-repetitions; an unfinished session is excluded.
Synthetic workbook illustration. Fictional values explain planning, completion, and records; no athlete data is shown. Open full evidence image

How I approached the work

  1. Connect programmed workouts to the session checklist
  2. Separate editable actuals from calculated workout views
  3. Limit record calculations to completed, valid results
  4. Check data propagation, historical records, checkbox resets, formulas, and charts

Demonstrated outcomes

  • Training Blocks feed Workout View and prefill the Session Log.
  • Completed valid sessions update record boards and progress views.

Limitations and unfinished work

  • The workbook is a coaching tool, not evidence that one annual schedule is optimal for everyone.
  • Personal athlete records are private; public worked examples use synthetic values.
  • The public specimen explains selected mechanics. It is not the original workbook, a full formula audit, or an individualized training prescription.

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