I want to lose weight. I want to gain weight. I want to be strong. I just want to look good. These are some of the most common answers when you ask people what their fitness goals are or when you ask them why they workout. While it's true they are goals, they just aren't very good goals. Let's take a look at what a good fitness goal looks like and how you can help yourself achieve that goal.
Be SMART About It
When setting goals, it's important that you keep them simple and SMART. SMART goals are: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely; hence the term SMART. Let's take a look at exactly what those things mean.
Specific
I want to lose weight. While that sounds like a good goal that a lot of people set, it's not very specific. Normally what specific means for fitness goals is putting a number on it. I want to lose weight turns into I want to lose 10 pounds. I want to be stronger turns into I want to be able to squat 315. By putting these numbers in the goal you have something that is specific that you can truly see in your mind.
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In fitness terms, this will probably be very close to the specific portion. A goal that is measurable again has numbers to it. Again by having numbers in your goal you're able to measure them. If you want to lose 10 pounds you're able to hop on a scale and measure your weight. The same goes for wanting to squat 315, you can measure the weight that you are lifting quite easily.
My personal goal I would like to divide into different categories First professional goals. My goals for my family. My Retirement goals.
Setting goals for yourself is an important aspect to help achieve success in life. Setting goals not only helps guide you to be successful, but also helps a person believe in themselves
Goals are a part of everyday life. From gaining the strength to get out of bed in the morning to winning that blue medal around your neck, everybody has made a goal once in their life. Sometimes it can be as easy as saying you’re not going to eat that last cupcake on the platter in front of you or as hard as saying “Hello” to that special someone in your life that you find adorable, either way you have made a goal. It’s also important to remember there is short term goals and long term goals. Short term goals are easier to achieve and can be very helpful in leading up to your long term goals. We can even classify our goals into personal goals, academic goals, and professional goals, as well as others.
Setting up my own rules, I realized that Maxfield ideas had a little influence my own. Setting up a goal is a step toward achievement, especially when it comes to eating. It marks where one starts and where that person wants to be at the end. For example, I weighed 135 a couple of months ago, I noticed I was not satisfied or happy with
My Fitness goals are to decrease my resting heart rate, become more toned muscularly, become faster,touch my toes, run for longer distances and squat more weight. I would like to accomplish these goals so I can be a better athlete and feel better about myself.
Goals are something that each individual should have, however, they can be short term or long term. My short term goal over the next year; I would like to
I choose my short term goal to be drinking less soda and more water. I hate how bland water is and so I don't drink much of it. Instead I usually drink soda, apple juice, and hot chocolate. The reason I have chosen that specific goal is because I know how nutritional water can be and I want to become a more healthier person. I can moniter my progress by keeping and writing in a drink diary. Lots of people have food diary, where they keep track of what they have ate, so there's no reason I can't do that but instead with drinks.
Goals, for some people it can be being under the Friday Night lights, or being on the court, shooting the winning basket for your team. Regardless of what your goal is, it usually takes a lot of time, hard-work and effort to get there. It requires a lot of falling down in order to get better and come back up that much stronger. For some, it comes easy, their talent or skill is inept or they are a natural at whatever it is that they are doing. For others, their skill is challenging for them, or they have to work at is constantly to maintain or better themselves in the skill. Nevertheless a goal is something that anybody, whether it is an athlete, student, or musician, will work at tirelessly to reach. For me, it was getting to ILMEA All-State during my high school career.
For my goals I chose to drink at least eight glasses of water a day, to stop eating after eight, and to exercise 30-60 minutes a day. I chose these goals because they are probably the ones I struggle with the most. I am over all really good with keeping up with all of these but I wanted to test myself as well.
My smart goal My goal is to shave off twenty seconds off my mile run. My current time for my mile is nine minutes and 40 second. Goal time is nine and twenty second. My goal will be accomplished by increasing cardiovascular strength. I will measure my progress by doing a test run on Saturday see how mile had change. This goal was relevant to me because it helps improve my overall efficacy in sports and daily life. It will increase my strength and endurance make my progression in sports healthier and safer.
According to Rehman, Berry and Siddiqui (2014) setting your goals based on the SMART goal system will ensure that you have the best chance of achieving them. At the end of my 5-week weight lost journey, I would know if I reached my goal of 20 pounds’ weight lost using the SMART goal format. Using the SMART goal format, has help me to create a clear, attainable, meaningful goal, and also helped me to find the motivation to bring it into
In the article “Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals” by Heidi Grant Halvorson which is also the world’s leading on goal settings. When setting a life goal make sure to set the bar high but not to high so it’s difficult but not impossible. Have a little piece of goal wisdom which means when a teen imagines to lose weight and they end up losing weight. People that are successful don’t just have confidence that they will succeed, but they also have confidence that they will succeed. Some people don’t like hearing people say that they can’t succeed. There’s no way that you can’t achieve because all you need is effort, planning, persistence and good strategies to achieve your goal. You need to stay motivated to achieve. Stay focused on goals
Having goals is just like having guidelines to your future like little sign posts telling you where you’re at and where your going and if you need to turn back and take a different road. I will write about some of the goals that will take me throughout the next five years to achieve. The goals I’ve set for myself are completing basic training, I will move on and complete my advanced individual training, after that I will graduate and get a spot for airborne school, those are just a few of the first steps and there are more in between that ill talk about.
In regards to my second fitness goal, which was to raise my overall level of strength, I believe that my progress has been going well and that I may be close to achieving my goal very soon. I plan on performing many more exercises to do so, and so far it has been working well since I had noticed that my strength is slowly increasing over time. Perhaps I may need to change a few exercises in my exercise routine so that I can achieve this goal much
My goals for the spring fitness assignment included the components of cardio respiratory and muscular endurance. My first goal was to run one mile in under 8 minutes. This goal will help me reduce my time during cross country races. My second goal was to plank for 1 minute and 30 seconds. My goals were realistic and helped me to stay in shape for cross country season.