How To Set Good Exercise Goals
We all want to get healthy.
We've all seen films such as Fight Club or 300 or Twilight and stared at those athletic, perfect bodies and thought: You know what? I want to look just like that.
But what then? From deciding to look like Adonis, where do we go from there? Some people decide they want results immediately, and begin the most intense, extreme and challenging form of exercise that they can possibly imagine, deciding that in one month or two months they'll lose sixty pounds and become ripped.
What ends up happening? In two weeks' time those people have quit, by becoming either injured or burned out or too sore to continue.
How can you, dear reader, avoid such a foul fate? By setting good goals.
The first thing to realize is that fitness is not a goal that you can achieve and then stop, but rather a state of living, a way to live, a way to eat, a way to sleep and exercise.
If you want to look great, than you have to adopt a great lifestyle.
You cannot spend all day before the TV and yet expect to develop the body of an Adonis.
You need to become active, to do things, to walk places and to eat well.
Second, you need to set realistic goals.
Becoming healthy is a marathon, not a sprint, and if you try to go too fast too hard you'll simply blow yourself out and quit.
Instead, set attainable goals.
Decide to lose two pounds or even four pounds a month by adjusting your caloric intake and exercise level.
Then, at the end of the year, you'll have lost anything from 24 to 48 pounds.
You will have done so without pain, without aggravation, and without burning out.
Don't try to lose 24 pounds in 2 months, because you'll be miserable and quit before you know it.
The same goes for fitness goals, for weight lifting goals, for everything.
Gradual and constant will always beat frenetic, panicked and immediate.
So look at your goals, tone them down to realistic levels, and allow yourself to grow into them in a healthy way.
We've all seen films such as Fight Club or 300 or Twilight and stared at those athletic, perfect bodies and thought: You know what? I want to look just like that.
But what then? From deciding to look like Adonis, where do we go from there? Some people decide they want results immediately, and begin the most intense, extreme and challenging form of exercise that they can possibly imagine, deciding that in one month or two months they'll lose sixty pounds and become ripped.
What ends up happening? In two weeks' time those people have quit, by becoming either injured or burned out or too sore to continue.
How can you, dear reader, avoid such a foul fate? By setting good goals.
The first thing to realize is that fitness is not a goal that you can achieve and then stop, but rather a state of living, a way to live, a way to eat, a way to sleep and exercise.
If you want to look great, than you have to adopt a great lifestyle.
You cannot spend all day before the TV and yet expect to develop the body of an Adonis.
You need to become active, to do things, to walk places and to eat well.
Second, you need to set realistic goals.
Becoming healthy is a marathon, not a sprint, and if you try to go too fast too hard you'll simply blow yourself out and quit.
Instead, set attainable goals.
Decide to lose two pounds or even four pounds a month by adjusting your caloric intake and exercise level.
Then, at the end of the year, you'll have lost anything from 24 to 48 pounds.
You will have done so without pain, without aggravation, and without burning out.
Don't try to lose 24 pounds in 2 months, because you'll be miserable and quit before you know it.
The same goes for fitness goals, for weight lifting goals, for everything.
Gradual and constant will always beat frenetic, panicked and immediate.
So look at your goals, tone them down to realistic levels, and allow yourself to grow into them in a healthy way.
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