Becoming That Pitch: A Journal For Softball Pitchers

Book Synopsis: Becoming That Pitch is a 30 day softball pitcher journal that will help athletes record all the hard work they do in their workouts, practices, and games. Each page has writing prompts for athletes to reflect on their performance and how they feel about it. Becoming That Pitch includes 30 journaling pages for each of the 3 categories: workouts, practices, and games. There are extra pages for notes, victories, and personal records, and speed tracking.This journal helps athletes:

• Reflect on every workout, practice, and game.
• Track their daily habits for a visual representation of improvements.
• Remember their fun memories.

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Let's talk about how to use the pages:

Every day you will log what you did and how you felt about each workout, practice, and game. Each day gets you closer to becoming that pitch.

Goal Plan:

Writing out your goals will give you an idea on where to get started. Every time you don't feel motivated, find the discipline to put in the work and look at what you wrote down as your goals.

Workout check in:

In order to get stronger in our pitching, we need to train. Training will help you gain accuracy, speed, and confidence. Exercise could be anywhere from stretching, yoga, walking, going to the gym, to climbing a mountain, doing a HIIT workout, anything that is beneficial to your physical health and is challenging. You will describe the movement to remember what you have done.

Practice check in:

Rate your physical performance on a scale of 1 through 10. Circle your rating. 10 being the best. Your physical performance is how you did in your pitching only. Rate your mental talk based on how you were focused and if your self-talk was helpful or not. Write down what you need to work on and be specific on any drills that you'll need to do. Write down something you accomplished in the practice as well. Find something positive that happened. There is no such thing as a bad day, just bad moments.

Game day check in:

After every game, rate your physical performance and your mental talk. Pay attention to your stats so you can remember them and track your progress. You'll need to remember innings pitched, strike outs, walks, and earned runs. In the notes section, you can add how many hard hits there were, if you fielded the ball, or anything else that is relevant. You will also need to make note of something you accomplished. After that, move on from it.

Notes:

These pages are for anything you want to remember. You could log your favorite meals and snacks, you could write down workout ideas, pitching drills, fun memories, etc. the opportunities are endless.

Victories and personal records:

These pages are to track your progress on your goals. For example: Learning a new movement, lifting the heaviest weight you've ever done, doing the most push-ups you've ever done, hitting a top velocity for the first time, etc.

Speed:

Use this page to graph your top velocities. I would recommend logging on the graph your speed once per week. This will make sure you are on track with your goals. You will want to maintain or increase your speed and the graph will give you a visual representation of that.