Hello and welcome to my blog post. This week, I have gone through lots of difficulties and blockades that have gotten in the way of absolutely everything. First of all, I tested positive for the Flu. I've had a sore throat and terrible migraines ever since Sunday, March 27. I have not been able to do any effective schoolwork and have not left my room since Monday. Clearly, I have not done any baseball exercises or routines this week and I have fallen behind. My stamina has decreased significantly because taking off days while in season is the one of the worst things you can do.
Before I contracted this virus, Braeden Rodgers and I along with a few friends went to Ellis’ baseball field to get some work in. We did live at-bats, where the pitcher and hitter face off in a simulated game, which was beneficial because I am in a slump right now. We then threw a good amount, ranging from 10 feet away, to roughly 250+ feet away. Once we reached our max throwing distance (considering the terrible wind that day), we worked closer and closer to each other, throwing harder from close range. Luckily, I took a video of the entire process of throwing and edited it into a shorter video with music and clean cuts. It was surprisingly easy to do this because CapCut’s interface is unchallenging. It only took me about twenty to thirty minutes to make the video. The hard part about this is uploading it onto my webpage. I made a YouTube account and uploaded the video there and will be uploading the video later tonight at the latest. My goal by the end of the week is to get another video posted of me doing my band exercises and to regain the stamina that I had about a week ago.
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Hello and welcome to my blog post. I have made the decision to completely drop agility and speed exercises, workouts, and routines completely. I am dropping these from my routine for a few reasons. The first reason is that my leg has been about 95% for a while now and I do not want to hurt it anymore because I want to stay healthy. Reason number two is because the workouts and exercises are very strenuous and they take a very long time. The third reason is that I have very limited time to do these because I get home at about 7 pm every day because of baseball and I am exhausted. There are many days when I do not even do my homework because I cannot keep my eyes open past a certain time.
On the bright side. I have filmed all of the videos but I have not edited them all together. I am having a little bit of difficulty with the editing of the video but I will try to edit them this weekend. I am trying to get the videos out but I keep forgetting on the weekend because I do not think about school on the weekends, my only days of free time. Regarding high school baseball, I have not been getting very many reps which is not good because I need to get these in-game reps in order to get better. We have also not had many field practices lately due to the bad weather. At the practices that are on the field, I, once again, feel like I am totally throwing harder and it is much easier to throw farther and harder. Another thing that really is weighing me down is that I cannot work out with weights because I do not want to be sore for practices or games that we have the next day. Hello and welcome to my genius hour project. This is my fourth week doing this project and I am seeing progress. This week, Davie plays East Forsyth Tuesday and Friday which is good because the days are spread out and I have time to get some work in at home. Yesterday, we played East Forsyth but lost. We play them Friday away which will be a tough game.
Regarding my project, I have been doing my exercises and what not and my leg is back to 100% thankfully. The routines that I am doing are constantly being crammed into my schedule and some days I have not been able to do them with how busy I have been in the past two weeks with all sorts of things. As I was looking at Braeden Rodger's post, I noticed he said he went and worked out in the morning before school which would be great if I started to do that too. The plus side of this is that I get the workouts out of the way, not having to do them late at night after a long day of school and baseball workouts. Another positive thing about a workout in the morning is that I get to get up and go before the school day. A couple of cons of this are that I will lose sleep (not like I am getting enough anyways), and that I will be sore throughout the day. Back to the baseball side of the project, I feel like I am throwing harder with less effort. For example, in warm-ups yesterday at the game, I felt like I was throwing much harder than usual. My body has felt really good recently and I am going to try my best to keep it that way by stretching a lot and taking better care of it. Hello and welcome to my genius hour project. This is my third blog and I am starting to see progress! I have been doing the arm exercises daily and have tried to max out this week. My leg feels a hundred times better but I still do not think that it is 100% and I do not want to hurt myself during baseball season. Yesterday at practice, I threw a pen, or I basically pitched, at about 90%, looking for mostly accuracy while staying consistently fast. I hit 81 mph which is good but I have done better and I will be doing better on a 100% pen which will not be too far away.
I will be trying to get a video out this weekend of my exercises. The video will only regard throwing and no agility but I will get an agility video out hopefully the following week or weekend but it all depends on how my leg feels. The bad part about this project is that it interferes with school baseball which is the season that I am currently in. Although I am getting reps at school, I do not think that I am getting enough but that can change. Another bad thing about this genius hour project is that my workload is extremely big and it is near impossible to go to school, then baseball practice until about 6 pm, do my workouts at home, eat, then do homework, and the list goes on, all while trying to get a good nights rest. Fortunately, I have done the exercises but I am constantly worn out and I have absolutely zero free time on my hands, including weekends. It is definitely going to be tough to keep these habits up but I guess that is what this entire project is about, to push myself. Hello and welcome to my genius hour project. This project is going to be really tough because of how much work I have in other classes, my busy schedule, my laziness (which I'm hoping to get better at), and the possible injuries that I may encounter.
Speaking of injuries, I have already hurt my left leg hamstring. I did this while running to second in a game but it just happened out of nowhere. As far as I am concerned, it is not anything super serious. I am hoping that it is just a small strain or something else but I do not want this to affect my baseball season and this project. A few days before I encountered this minor injury, I started my exercises for both my speed and agility and my arm strength. Now that I have this leg injury, I am going to try and let it heal but I will still be doing my arm exercises. I will soon post a link to every exercise that I will be doing with short videos of how to do them. The exercises are not all that difficult but if I intentionally put tension on the band and stretch it out as far as I can, it will soon become difficult. There are three types of ways I can do each exercise; Standard, Eccentric, and Concentric. I will mostly be doing the standard and eccentric exercises because they are the best for my arm. One of my biggest problems is my time management. I cannot find any time to do anything, especially with the school baseball and homework. I have never been so busy at all times and I feel like I always have something that I need to be doing. Even when I have free time I feel like I am wasting my time but I feel like that should be normal because I am not too organized with planning. Hello and welcome to my genius hour project. My name is Cooper Bliss and I will be trying to increase my throwing velocity as much as possible and try to make my 60-yard dash as fast as possible.
I will be trying to complete these two goals because they will significantly help me for my travel baseball, school baseball, overall agility, and ability to commit to goals. I have always struggled with committing to goals before I see any progress. I usually just settle for less before I even see the progress which is what I want to change. There are many ways to do these two exercises but we will go over arm strength or throwing velocity first. The first thing you have to understand is that increasing throwing velocity is extremely difficult and you cannot slack off. I increased roughly five mph over the winter break which is extremely good for me, especially since I did not do any serious weight lifting or training. Anyways, the exercises that I will be doing are resistant band training. I will do eccentric and concentric band training. For beginners, eccentric movements are when you explode forward from starting position, then very slowly let back down. Concentric is the opposite of eccentric. It may not seem like they are very effective, but they definitely are. I will be documenting my progress by taking occasional videos of my exercises. I will also clock myself for throwing velocity and for my 60-yard dash. Clocking my arm speed at maximum speed daily/ weekly is not very healthy so I will do it roughly 3-4 times throughout the entirety of the project. On the other hand, clocking my 60-yard dash time will not be unhealthy so I can do that probably once every two weeks. The most difficult part of this project will be actually sticking to the project and not slacking off. |
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May 2022
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