Introduction to Body Mechanics: Complete Fitness Journal & Guide
By Mark R. Hailey
Anyone who has made a commitment to physical fitness has discovered that it consists of three important elements.
1. Knowledge of the body’s muscle groups and how they work.
2. Consistency in performing exercise that isolates those muscles.
3. Setting goals, achieving them, and then setting new goals.
It is number 3, goal setting, that is the basis of Body Mechanics: Complete Fitness Journal & Guide.
Record keeping is one of the most neglected aspects of working out. You would not think of writing checks out of your checkbook with out recording the amount spent. You would have a difficult time at any sporting event if the score were not displayed. You would have problems with your paycheck if a time sheet were not kept.
Yet when many people approach a workout routine, whether it is free weights, circuit, aerobics, or even jogging or power walking, they simply perform the routine with little to no accounting of the progress they have made. In many ways it is as if they are starting over each time they work out.
Although the human body is a single unit, it is comprised of separate parts i.e. arms, legs, shoulders, etc. Equipment in a gym is designed to isolate these individual muscle groups. Each time you perform a routine, Bench Press for instance, you are giving that muscle group, the chest, individual attention.
The human body adapts to adversity. The more stress that you place on it, the more it will adapt to those levels of stress. By defining you fitness goals and then recording the results of a work out, you are able to see what progress you have made... and what needs to be done to reach those goals.
Body Mechanics: Complete Fitness Journal & Guide focuses on the record keeping aspect of working out. Discouragement and frustration are powerful forces that can influence anyone who works out, especially those that are new to physical activity.
It is a simple fact that even though the human body can make enormous improvements through fitness... it does take time. And here in the 21st century where everything is available to us so quickly... people can get impatient, impatience leads to discouragement, and discouragement leads to quitting.
If you have the ability to see what you have done for each muscle group written there in front of you; you have, in essence, controlled time. Like an anatomical road map you are able to chart the progress of your workouts and have hard evidence that progress is being made, even though the mirror may say other wise.
Body Mechanics: Complete Fitness Journal & Guide is designed to let you record everything about your work out. From scheduling times, medical history, personal goals, measurements, body composition all the way down to how much weight you are lifting and what your target heart rate is.
You should find Body Mechanics: Complete Fitness Journal & Guide very easy to use. Its design allows you to quickly record and retrieve information about any body part or routine on any given day in a six-month period.
Body Mechanics' goal is to help reach yours. Analyzing your past performance is the key to your future progress.
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