Setting goals is a very important step when starting any program or beginning your fitness and nutrition journey. But it’s also something most people commonly overestimate, setting themselves up for failure.
Everyone should have a goal when beginning a fitness journey, and this goal can range from any level – such as just wanting to be more active – to something more specific such as losing 15 pounds.
Anything that you do in life usually has a goal associated with it that you’re trying to achieve. Setting achievable fitness goals it’s important so that you can keep focused and on track with your regimen.
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Goal setting can be very beneficial to anyone who wants to get into fitness, but setting the wrong goals could be detrimental to your self-esteem causing you to stop or give up. Losing 10 pounds over the course of 5 to 10 weeks is a reachable goal and perhaps a little challenging. But losing 10 pounds in 10 days is unhealthy, and very difficult to pull off.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of misinformation out there when it comes to goal setting. Whether you’re on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or another social networking site, you can’t be comparing someone else’s goals to your own.
Oversetting goals with fitness can be frustrating to obtain, and even discouraging when missed. It’s important to make your goals realistic, by thinking about the time, the size of the goal, your effort, and possible obstacles along the way.
Even experts on social networking sites can often put out the wrong message with fitness challenges that their followers are expected to succeed with, when every person’s body, habits and lifestyle differ.
Think About the Long-Term
Realistic goals don’t have to be short-term only. You should also be considering both medium and long-term goals. Short-term goals should be set on a week to week or month to month basis, while medium goals should last about 3 to 6 months. Long-term goals range from 6 months to a year.
Setting a variety of differently timed goals will keep you motivated and give proof to your efforts along your program.
Why Do People Overset Thier Goals?
Social media, especially in the fitness market, can look very promising to someone who is out of shape. Watching someone go from an out of shape couch potato to a super ripped and shredded model in 6 weeks can look very enticing.
What most people don’t realize is that most of the time these are paid actors and experts who use video tricks such as packing on weight with food for a before picture, then losing it over a day of fasting to look lean again. Some even use programs such as Photoshop to make results look more drastic.
Not everyone like the people on Instagram have experience, trainers, and nutritionists to push them to such limits and receive these results. Aim for healthy, reachable, and realistic goals that will help motivate you to achieve even more progress, and you will one day reach those long-term exciting goals that you’ve worked so hard for.
How To Stick To & Create Achievable Fitness Goals
Making a resolution, a promise to ourselves, that we’re going to do something different than we have done in the past can be a challenge. Statistics show that by the end of the first week of setting a goal, 25% of people have given up and gone back to their pre-resolution ways. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Download my free report, How To Stick With Your Fitness Resolutions to see how you can easily create achievable fitness goals.
