How to keep your weight lifting progress in check?

Hey guys. I'm into weight lifting and wanna get back into it. I've been lost though on how to keep things on track. Like being organize with it and I don't know how to right things down... Like Writing it on paper. I could do it in my head but not on paper. Is there a program out there or something that can keep track of the progress I'm doing?

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1. Try Microsoft Excel.

2. you want to do 1 core exercise everyday, lower body or upper.
Do upper 1 day and fthen lower the next.

Upper body cores could include:
-bench press, closed grip
-bench press, open grip
-power clean

Lower body Cores could include:
-parallel squat
-box squat
-hex bar or straight bar deadlift

Go on a 4 week scedule: (reps per set)
1st: 10,10,10
2nd: 5, 3, 1+
3rd: 10, 8, 6+
4th: 5, 3, 1

When you do less reps, go up in weight. (ie. 2nd week, you may do 100, 115, then 130; week 1 you may do 95, 95, 95)

The above could only apply to core exercises, or could also apply to auxillary as well.

Auxillaries are exercises that work specific muscle groups. You want to do many of these each day.

When doing an upper body core lift, do upper body auxillaries exercises. Dont mix upper and lower body.

For auxillaries, most people do 3 set of 10 reps.

You could write everything down in a note book. Every week try to increase in weight.