How To Set Your Fitness Goal

by: Michael Perry

December 5, 2017

How To Set Your Fitness Goal

Was this the year you were going to get into shape for your self? Have you achieved that fitness goal? For lots of women, life can get in the way of keeping resolutions, dreams and goals to get in better shape. In order to stick with anything – specifically something that can be tough work – we have to have goals. Setting goals enables you to see the bigger picture, to keep going when your exercises are hard, or you are not in the mood.

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Decide what you really want to achieve.

We all practice personal goal setting at one level or another – even simply saying “I want to lose weight” or “I want to get in shape” is a simple form of personal goal setting – however to achieve success, we require to go further than that.

The problem is that setting a basic goal like “I want to lose weight” is too unclear, it has no specifics to it, so we can quickly fudge it. You’ve managed to lose a pound? Well that’s success, you’ve lost weight!

How do you prevent this? By setting specific fitness goal. For example, if you want to “get in shape”, exactly what does that mean? How many workouts per week? What kind of exercises? How much weight loss? By when?

Having these really specific targets is extremely effective, and helps us to focus our energy and attention muchbetter The most frequently used tool for this is what is called SMART goals. SMART goals are used in various areas, from work to weight loss, school to sports.

SMART is an acronym that stands for:

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S-M-A-R-T Fitness Goal

S = Specific M = Measurable A = Attainable R = Realistic T = Timely

We’ll take a look at each of these in turn, using them to a common goal – weight loss.

Specific: The very first part of personal goal setting is to set goals that are really clear – they should highlight exactly what you want to happen, including information. Use questions like What, Why, and How.

For example: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? Lose weight.

WHY is this crucial to you right now? For example, to look better, be much healthier, and so on

HOW are you going to do it? By working out more, improving your diet plan, and so on

Measurable: Making goals measurable is vital. If you can not measure it, you will not know if you’ve realized it! Weight loss lends itself naturally to progressive goals – for instance, to lose 5 pounds in one month, 12 pounds in 3 months, and so on. The more measurable and in-depth a goal is, the better.

Attainable: Our brain is extremely good at working towards goals, however they should be achievable. If we know that they are simply out of reach, we will quickly give up. For that reason, you require to set goals that will stretch you, but that nonetheless appear possible.

Realistic: To succeed we require to be motivated, and practical goals offer terrific motivation. We comprehend that we can

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Set a DEADLINE to your Fitness Goal!

achieve them with effort, and as we move towards them, that sense of achievement keeps us motivated. So never ever eating chocolate once again might be unrealistic for you, having it simply once per week may be much more do-able.

 

Timely: Finally, your goals require a clear end point. Having a guaranteed ending point makes sure that we do not backslide. With no end point we can procrastinate permanently, however if we have a deadline of losing 10 pounds in 3 months, we can plainly focus and work towards it.

 

 

 

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About the author

Growing up as the fat kid is what motivated him to take matters to his hands at fifteen, and he has never looked back again since!

When he's not pumping iron at the gym, you'll probably find him hooked to his record player listening to rock classics.

If only he could carry it with him to the gym. Sigh.

On this site, he'll do his best to help you accomplish the same results for yourself.

(We're talking about getting in shape, not trying to carry a record player to your local gym)

Michael Perry