Hi, my name is Olivier.
And welcome to YourWorkoutBook.com.
I was born 30ish years ago in a beautiful archipelago of islands called Les-Iles-de-Les-Madeleines, Quebec. Since then I have been lucky enough to live all over Canada and the U.S., making stops in Winnipeg, Hamilton, Princeton, NJ, Santa Barbara, CA, Vancouver, and finally… beautiful Victoria, British Columbia.
When I am not sitting at the keyboard writing about working out (for this site, as well as USA Swimming, SwimSwam.com, SwimSwam’s magazine, Cut & Jacked, Greatist, STACK, and more) you’ll find me training.
There is nowhere I would rather be than sprinting back in forth in a moderately chilly pool, lifting weights with headphones in, or doing hill sprints down the road from my house.
For me, training is my happy place.
It’s my Moment of Zen, it’s my therapy, and it’s where I go to push and challenge myself.
With this website and book, I hope to help you make it yours as well.
How YourWorkoutBook Came Into The World
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Doing so helped me keep me motivated and provided a bird’s eye perspective of where I was doing good, and conversely, where I could improve. When I swam there wasn’t anything available that could centralize my goal setting, goal planning, and the monitoring of my swimming goals and performances.
This is what led me to creating YourSwimBook. It’s a log book and a goal setting guide made specifically for competitive swimmers.
When I made the transition from full time amateur athlete to gym rat, I wanted to bring that same set of tools that helped me in my swimming to what I was trying to accomplish at the gym.
Even though there were tons of options available online from web apps, mobile apps, to other books (I bought a $120 stack of log books from Amazon — duds), I was surprised to find the other options lacking.
It was hard to tell if the people who designed the books had ever set foot into a gym. One particular face-palm moment was a logbook that had a field so that you could track your fitness expenses.
Yes, fitness expenses. (Fitness and wellness shouldn’t be costing you a thing — you should be measuring what you are getting out of it. But I digress.)
So instead I created my own spreadsheets and tables using Word and Excel. Dating back as far back as 2007 (anything before that was lost in the great hard drive collapse of November 2006) I have a memory stick full of clumsy tables, undated workouts, and unorganized notes.
Not satisfied with the other log books on the market, or using Word, I decided that I was going to make my own. No more Word files, spreadsheets or bush-league alternatives.
This is how YourWorkoutBook was born, as most things are, out of a frustration of the current options.
To learn more about YWB, and how it can help you achieve your fitness goals, click here.
Getting Social
Social media– isn’t it just the best?
(It’s late as I write this, and yes, that was some sarcasm.)
You can stay up to date with YourWorkoutBook, our blog, and our goings-on by hopping onto any one of our following social media feeds:
- YourWorkoutBook on Instagram.
- YourWorkoutBook on Twitter.
- YourWorkoutBook on Facebook.
- Olivier Poirier-Leroy on LinkedIn.
- and on Google Plus.
Of course, if you just want a weekly dose of motivational goodness straight to your inbox than I suggest you sign up for the YWB newsletter. Every Sunday and Wednesday you’ll get digestible emails (unlike that cheap protein powder you bought that one time…) that are filled with equal parts humor and motivation.
You can sign up here. The emails are free, and you can unsubscribe at any point.
Questions
If you have a question about your order, would like to order bulk copies for your clients or your team/association, or you’d like to partner up on some sweet, sweet business opportunities, send an email to olivier <at> yourswimbook.com.
