Personal Reassessment:
What are you working for? What are your lifestyle and fitness goals?
I have asked you this before, several times. I do know most of your goals. However, today, I ask you to define in writing your lifestyle and fitness goals and exactly what you are working for.
Below are some basic questions to think about. Some may apply to you, some may not. And maybe there's another question you have asked yourself that I have not asked you. I ask these questions to help you define what motivates you to put forth the effort to obtain your ideal vision of health and fitness. I am also asking you these questions in order to develop a program that will effectively meet your individual needs and requirements, enabling you to reach your full potential more efficiently. Knowing what you are working for and how you feel and want to feel about yourself will help me more with program development, motivation, progress tracking, and developing a realistic exercise game plan that will produce long lasting results.
Some questions to think about:
- Do I want to become more consistent with my exercise game plan? Do I want to gain strength, endurance, flexibility, and self-confidence?
- What is my motivation? What drives me to work hard towards accomplishing the lifestyle and fitness goals I set for myself? Is it the numbers on the scale, my body fat composition, or the size of my clothes?
- Do I want to prepare for a race? Prevent injury? Rehab a previous injury?
- What do I want to look like? Do I desire a fit physique? A strong physique?
- How do I want to feel about myself when I look in the mirror? Am I comfortable in my skin? Am I confident in front of others? Alone with my loved one?
I ask you these questions also to redefine and reassess. It is May! It is almost summer. Half the year has passed by, and as time passes, goals and plans change, and the key to success is re-evaluating your plan of action and adapting to the changes that have occurred. Studies have shown that people become more successful and results are more likely to last longer when goals are not only defined but written down, tracked, re-evaluated, and made adaptable. Why is this? It is said that when goals are written down, the commitment to follow through is also established. Without commitment, there is no direction, and without direction outcome will be limited. How will we know success if we haven't defined what it means to us?
So please take a moment to define your lifestyle and fitness goals and exactly what you are working for. Email them to me, or write them down and hand them to me our next session. I have been with most of you for at least three months,and some I have had the pleasure to train since I have moved to Austin, and some I am just beginning with. I want to be the best trainer I can be for you! So let me know why you want to be fit and healthy.
See you in the gym.
1 comment:
Hey Chelsea,
Loved your most recent post on your blog.
If more people would stop and think about what their goals are in life and not just the gym people might have a better idea as to what to do with this precious life that we have.
To many people, including myself, have wasted so much of their life.
I do not do that anymore for the most part.
My goals for my 60s (wow 60s) is to enjoy everyday as much as possible.
Here is an example.
I had a tough 5.5 mile run today. Instead of hating the run I thought how blessed I am that at 60 I can go on a 5.5 mile run and have the sanity to understand that this was not one of my better runs.
When I finished I embraced the run because I realized that I conquered the moment rather than giving in to it.
Imagine (John Lennon)
Love
Dad
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