Monday, May 16, 2011

The Usefulness of Keeping a Fitness Journal for Baseball Players

By Thomas Wilson


When you think of a fitness journal, you normally think of an item countless health professionals highly recommend to folks wanting to shed some pounds. Well, whether or not you are wanting to lose weight, a fitness journal is a terrific tool to help players keep an eye on their eating habits and baseball workouts. So why will a fitness journal help you? What exactly do you want to put in your fitness journal? These are both questions that will be addressed in the following paragraphs.

Let's start with what you should write in your fitness journal. Essentially, all the things you do that relates to your baseball workouts and training should be logged in. To start with, you need to list everything you eat and if you seriously desire to go above and beyond, the important nutritional information for those foods (calories, grams of fat,etc.) You will also need to write in all your baseball workouts in addition to the general health and fitness routines you are doing. Every different exercise you do, you want to log into your journal. Even how long spent stretching before and after your workouts should go in your fitness journal!

This is particularly critical when you go to the gym or fitness room at your school that you write in each and every little detail. You should make sure you put down the number of sets and repetitions you do when lifting weights as well as what your incline, speed, time, and distance was when running on the treadmill and also other cardio machines. These are all valuable details to keep track of.

Whenever you are on the baseball diamond practicing individually or along with several teammates, just after you are finished you will need to write down a general overview of what you did. It does not need to be quite as specific as your diet log and baseball workouts summary will be, but you should at the least mention what drills you did and for about how long.

Now that you have any idea how to keep a fitness journal and also what you ought to write in it, it is now time to talk about why using one is so beneficial. To begin with, it allows you track your advancement in each of the various factors of your health. You can see that you have improved and can do 25 more pushups, run a mile further, or field a lot more of your ground balls cleanly than you could a month ago are just a few examples. Yet another additional advantage is that should you ever get injured, you will be able to show your doctor or trainer your fitness journal and they will be able to tell you if you are doing something incorrect with your baseball workouts or maybe you simply just need to stretch more. There are lots of advantages to keeping a journal, however those are just a few. If there is one thing I seriously recommend to serious players looking to enhance their baseball ability, using a fitness journal would unquestionably be it. Not only just the benefits I described above, but also the satisfaction of looking back in a couple of years and seeing how far you have come in your training and overall fitness makes it totally worthwhile!




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