Set quantifiable goals for a Happy New Year
Start your new year the right way by setting small and quantifiable goals. Avoid feeling disheartened and discouraged by your new years resolutions by taking your emphasis off your long term goals and onto more specific quantifiable ones. Believe me you’ll achieve so much more.
Lets say that you want to lose 3 stone in weight and get much stronger and more toned legs. Rather than setting goals based on the 3 stone weight loss, set your goals based on improving your leg squats, lunges, deadlifts and step ups. You will be amazed that when you can perform triple your usual amount of leg exercises the impact that will have had on your weight loss.
My female clients often want shapely arms and so I set them the goal of doing full press ups. To begin with they may only be able to manage 5 half press ups off their knees but I know that when they can perform a proper full press up their arms will be taking shape. It is important to take the emphasis off the goal and make it more quantifiable. When a female can do 10 full press ups they will have strong arms, chest and shoulders. When a man can do 20 full pull ups they will have a strong and toned back.
I have just spent new year climbing and camping in the Mountains of north Wales. There can be no better way of taking the emphasis away from weight lose and onto quantifiable targets than by mountain/hill walking. Why not set goals based on reaching the top of a certain peak or walking a certain distance? This can apply to a whole range of activities including cycling a certain distance or hill, sprinting around a park, swimming a number of lengths. When you stop thinking about weight loss and more about achieving quantifiable goals you’ll be amazed at what you can achieve without even realising it.