Are You Realistic With Your Fitness Goal Setting?

It’s almost time for the New Year. This means it’s almost time for a plethora of fitness goal setting posts, speeches, and discussion everywhere. Fitness goal setting is going to become a hot topic any minute now. Why wait to get started with your fitness goal setting? What’s wrong with starting in November? Why wait at all.

If you want to get serious about fitness goal setting, you need to read this right now and stop delaying!

I wanted to ask you today if you were realistic with your fitness goal setting?

Do you tell yourself that you plan on training 6 days a week and never eating junk food again? Do you tell yourself that you want a six pack by next Thursday?

Odds are that you’ve set highly unrealistic fitness related goals for yourself in the past. It’s time for a change. It’s time to see real results. No more disappointing yourself. The good news is that you have Training Shark to work with you now.

Let’s get into the only post that you’re ever going to need to read when it comes to setting fitness goals and what you need to know on the topic…

Personal fitness goals should be, well, personal.

Don’t let anyone else determine your fitness related goals. We all have different capabilities. You might be stronger or weaker than your friends. All that matters is that you outdo yourself. You don’t want to compare your weight lifting to a friend that’s competing for a challenge. You want to set goals that YOU know you can attain.

What are some examples of setting realistic fitness goals?

You need to learn to work with a weakness/problem of yours. For example, my weakness is that I love junk food. Naturally this goes against everything that we’ve ever learned about fitness and nutrition. You’re not supposed to eat junk because it’s bad for you, right? Well yes that’s correct. Instead of depriving myself and alway being miserable I took a different approach. I do the once a week binge day as recommended by Tim Ferriss. This is one day a week where you eat anything that you want to. The goal is to eat so much junk that you get sick. This ends up working for me because I work with my weakness.

Back to the original point, realistic fitness goals can be any of the following:

• I will go for a walk three times a week before work.
• I will get more protein into my diet.
• I will stop eating crap before bed.

You need to set realistic goals so that you don’t lie to yourself.

You want to know how to achieve your fitness goals?

There are two main strategies that are common for helping us achieve our fitness goals.

You need to be held accountable.

Do you train alone? If you train alone the odds are that you have a difficult time getting yourself in the zone to train hard. You need to be held accountable. Who’s holding you accountable to lose those 6 pounds before Thanksgiving?

You also need an incentive.

I share a phenomenal quote from Tim Ferriss (author of 4-Hour Body) a few weeks ago in a post. The quote on working out and incentives goes:

I would actually say that motivation is not the question. The real question is: What are the incentives? Let’s say I created a gym where you pay $400 the first of the month, and for every visit I refund $25. And before you sign up, we take unflattering photos of you in your under­wear, and if you don’t make a certain number of visits, we post those photos to a public website. I guarantee you that would be one fucking fit gym.

What does means is that we need an incentive that forces us to work out.

What’s your incentive to reach your fitness goals? Who’s holding you accountable?

We’re here to help you with your fitness goal setting. Don’t be intimated. We don’t judge. We’ve made far worse mistakes with your fitness than you could possibly imagine.

My new training buddy: are you ready to get serious about your fitness goals? Leave a comment telling us what you plan on doing right now.