Stickbow Target Archery Forums

I suggest to everyone who is really intersted to participate successful on this training experiment to start with a personal training diary. The form you do it is totally up to you - some do it in a nice book, some use electronic help - the only thing is to have it available even in a view years from now.
I am inspired to this suggestion by two things:
a) I saw a report of a German canoeing athlet by the name Birgit Fischer (up to my knowledge she is the most successfull women participating at olymics with about 7 - 8 medals won) - she is getting her motivation sometimes out of her old diries (some are more than 20 years old!)n
b) I tried to keep track on what changes I made to my archery in the cause of the years - both on equipment and shooting style. I found it quite easy to step back 1-2 years but after that, my memory does suffer from some blank spots...

What should be the content of such diry?n
Make a main page which should include you personnel details, your preffered settings on your equipment such as string configuration, brace height, arrow spine / diameter, preffered point weight, draw-length, arrow length, tiller measurments, feather length & shape, total weight of arrow, etc.

Provide space for your weekly training plan, write the essentials in as detailed as you like and incorporate also the actual conditions under which you did your training e.g. weather conditions, mental state, degree of general relexation, level of stress you feel, time, temperature and so on.

Finally allow yourself some space to comment on your training - e.g. did you feel it to be too heavy, or have you been disappointed about your performance, was there a positive highlight, did you tried something new and how was it ...
Do not filter either positive things or negative things out of your comments as they belong to your daily life! By the time you can see some tendencies - e.g. not completed pages, overload on negative/positive remarks, specific times during the weeks you are more positive or allow yourself to pratice/train etc.
This will help to improove your training by changing methodologies, ajusting time, making provisions and so on.

Good idea!n
Am thinking it might be the least work to cut and paste your weekly training plan into Word (or some similar editor), then annotate it with my thoughts and comments in italic or script, so that I could easily browse, telling the difference between the two authors