Lockdown Life Training Tips Elaborated - Set Some Goals

Setting goals can be excellent in focusing your efforts and provide motivation.

It goes without saying that it's wise to adhere to the SMART criteria you may well have heard of before. Essentially, this is an acronym that means making your goals:

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Time based.

Set some performance goals

In addition to setting what might be considered typical fat loss goals, such as losing 4 kg in 8 weeks, we particularly love performance goals.

These can be powerful motivators during the process and are particularly relevant to our discussion about training as they can help to:

🔹 Encourage adherence to regular training.

🔹 Ensure quality of the training.

🔹 Ultimately provide the stimulus and impetuous to achieve your fat loss goals.

Performance goals can take many forms, some examples might include to:

🔹 Hit 10 full Push Ups in 8 weeks.

🔹 Squat a PB of 100 kg x 5 in 6 weeks.

🔹 Build up to 10 rounds of a certain circuit in 5 weeks.

Pick some challenging but achievable performance goals based on the equipment you have available to you and set to work on achieving them!

Set some habit based sub goals

These can help you focus on achieving the process based elements that allow you to chip away at achieving your overall goal.

They might include things such as:

🔹 Completing 4 workouts per week.

🔹 Hitting 10,000 steps per day.

🔹 Performing 10 mins of mobility work per day.

Breaking a larger goal down into smaller elements you can achieve each day can add up to big results over a longer period and mentally it can make things seem much more manageable.
 

Take action towards your goals

If you find these tips useful and would like help implementing them and get further motivation and guidance with your training, take a look at our Online Personal Training page and drop us a message!