New Medication List Template

Try this new Medication List Template to keep track of your prescriptions, vitamins, and supplements. Print the list to take with you to your healthcare visits.

Immunization Schedules and Vaccination Record

Have you had a new child recently? You can find a recommended immunization schedule on the CDC website. If you want to keep an electronic record of vaccinations for you and your children, download this new Immunization Record for Excel.

Baby Feeding Schedule

This new printable Baby Feeding Schedule was created due to a recent need. It lets you track sleep times, feeding times, number of diapers, etc.

Golf Score Log

This Golf Score Log spreadsheet lets you track your golf scores, but the really cool thing is how it lets you filter by Course, # of Holes, etc. It displays your Handicap Index, and if you filter by Course, it will display your Course Handicap. I hope this is useful, but if not, it was at least fun to create. :-)

Blood Pressure Chart & Log

This Blood Pressure Chart spreadsheet helps you track your SBP and DBP blood pressure readings over time. You can use the printable blood pressure log to track by hand and/or use the spreadsheet to create a visual chart that may help you identify trends.

Blood Sugar Chart

This new Blood Sugar Chart and printable blood sugar log can help you track your blood sugar levels over time. The worksheet also includes a chart for tracking your Hemoglobin A1c levels.

Running Logs

The new Running Log template actually contains 3 different logs: a running log, walking log, and a race log. You can also download printable versions in PDF format. Record your distance, time, pace, heart rate, the temperature and other route information and comments.

Workout Log

This Workout Log template helps you track your strength training progress. It lets you track 5 days on a single page. Record the number of sets and reps and the weight for your lifting exercises. Track your weight, hours of sleep, and daily calories ... more info

Exercise Log

This Exercise Log helps you track your fitness and strength training progress. It includes a worksheet for listing 2 days per page and one for listing 3 days per page. List the exercises and then record the number of sets/reps for the weight lifted, or the time/distance and heart rate for cardiovascular activities ... more info

Workout Chart | Weight Lifting Chart

This Workout Chart template can help you structure your personal weight lifting program. List exercises for warm up, core body strength training, upper body strength training, lower body strength training, and cool down. The workbook also includes a worksheet for calculating your 1RM (One Rep Max) based on multiple reps to failure (rather than 'maxing out').

Exercise Chart Template

Create a weekly personal fitness plan with this Exercise Chart template. Schedule both strength training and cadio exercises. Record sets/reps and weight, time/distance and target heart rate, intensity levels, and notes.

BMI Chart Template

This BMI Chart was created in Excel using similar techniques as the Ideal Weight Chart. The spreadsheet also includes a BMI Calculator.

Weight Loss Chart Template

To go along with my recent Exercise and Fitness theme, I've created a new weight loss chart template for Excel, as well as a few printable weight loss logs and charts in PDF format that you can download, print, and keep handy right next to your scale (at least that's what I'm doing). I've got more Exercise Charts coming ... stay tuned.

Ideal Weight Chart

I've added a new spreadsheet that includes a table, chart, and calculator for estimating your ideal weight. The Ideal Weight Chart uses the BMI, Devine, Robinson, and Miller formulas - all on the same graph - so it is fairly easy to compare them.

The chart uses a special trick for creating the shading that highlights the overweight, normal, and underweight regions based on the BMI (body mass index). The shaded regions are created using a stacked area chart, but because I wanted the gridlines on TOP of the areas, I made two different charts, superimposed over each other, with the area chart on the bottom. The top graph has the backgrounds turned off so that the colors from the area chart show through. (This technique was also described in a comment on this site). I don't really like having to use this approach, but other than creating a bunch of dummy series to use as the gridlines, I don't know of another approach.

Update (2/12/09): Excel Charts expert and MVP Jon Peltier gave me a great suggestion - to make the gridlines using error bars with a dummy series. Now why didn't I think of that?

Update (2/13/09): Created a BMI Chart using the same chart techniques as for the ideal weight charts.

Daily Food Log Template

This new template is for recording what you eat and how much water you drink each day. Today was my first official day to use the food log, and I was surprised to find out that my typical bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios is actually 550 calories. I looked at the other cereal boxes that we have, and it appears as if the manufacturers just change the serving size so that every serving comes to about 110-120 calories. Interesting trick.

The most useful thing for me is keeping track of how much water I drink. I've definitely found a correlation between that and my headaches, and until today, I've never really known how much water I drink each day. I discuss water intake in more detail on the food log download page. I'm definitely falling short of the recommended amount, even though I thought I was drinking plenty.

I need to find a good source for information about the amount of calories in foods that aren't packaged with Nutrition Fact info (like meats, vegetables, etc).