Who Uses a Basketball Training-Log?
For more then 110 years, basketball players have been recording their information from their basketball workouts. First signs of this practice can be dated back to English Runner Alfred “Alfie” Shrubb (12 December 1879 – 23 April 1964) who kept detailed notes of his training in a diary format as a professional runner.In the early eighties at the same time personal computers were being introduced and some basketball players started logging their information in first versions of a spreadsheet software. This is still one of the most common used formats for recording information about basketball workouts today.
Over the same period of time as the personal computer revolution, sport specific training-log type software’s started appearing in desktop formats. In the late nineties some basketball players started using online training-logs when the Internet evolved to include databases that allowed users to store information online.
The definition of Diary implies somewhere you keep your secrets, which might still be the case. As Olympic basketball players are very concerned about their training data being shared with their competitors.
The word training-log implies more of a record keeping of an basketball players training that might not be as secretive as the word diary. A recent trend with online social media in both amateur and professional basketball players are posting their training data from their training-log online for everyone to see through their blogs. In a sort of fan interaction way where an amateur basketball player can view their favourite basketball players training data and compare it against their own to gauge their fitness level.
While the idea of recording your basketball workouts has been around for more then a century, what hasn’t been clear is what information a basketball player should record from their workouts that will actually help improve their basketball performances. The variances of subjective fields appearing in training-log books, spreadsheets and online training-logs in the market varied quite a bit from each other leaving the basketball player confused as to what’s the best way to record a basketball workout is and what value it has to the basketball players training from an objective way.
Many articles have been written on the benefits of keeping a training-log for the purpose of reviewing the data for self-coaching and monitoring injuries. In my experience I found the Basketball player Training-Log to be a one-way training tool that basketball players often stop using after a period of a couple of months.
While I was monitoring a group of basketball players training habits I found their general consensus to be one of “what’s the point”. Basketball players in general were not crazy about the idea of having to record all the analytical data from their workouts, health and meals each day. It was as if they did not see value in it and or understand the connection to their training. From the data I did have from the basketball players, the coaches and sport scientist were loving it and wanting more.
Even though their is an abundance of Basketball player Training Logs in a variety of formats on the market today. A majority of basketball players are not recording their training data in any form in a diary, log or journal. And for those that are, most were only doing at their coaches request and would wait for a reply based on the results from the data sent to their coach.
I believe the future of the Basketball player Training-Log will be a component of the basketball players training that can be connected to a Coaches Training Planner for planned versus actual analysis. If a basketball player is self-coaching or being coached by a professional, this combination of tools will be the evolution of the electronic Basketball player Training Journal. A tool that allows a Basketball player in any sport to measure the effectiveness of the previous days basketball workout with or without a coach.
This might encourage the large percentage of Basketball players not recording their basketball workouts today to change. If the basketball player can get a computerized output of their previous days workouts effectiveness it might intrigue them to enter the data required to obtain the objective results.
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