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How To Set Up Your Goals To Get The Results You Want

By Greg Mihovich

You are a person that understands the importance of getting fit and staying there.
You like to workout and you enjoy challenging yourself. After all, only those who
work hard get the results, right?

You see, actually, it is not quite as simple.

In order to get some real, meaningful and useful results you need to find
out what are your objectives first.

In other words, what are your training goals? What do you want from your
training?

Most people don’t know why they train. Or they think that they know why, but they
have no means to track their progress. Therefore, they don’t know whether they
are moving towards their objectives or away from them.

Let me explain with some examples.

•        Loosing ten pounds in two month time frame in order to feel, perform and
look better
•        Improving from 150 to 200 Kettlebell Snatches in ten minutes by the New
Years in order to improve my power endurance, strength-endurance and
cardiovascular endurance
•        Winning a local grappling tournament on December 19th

Presented above are just a few examples of meaningful goals with a clear
method to track your progress.

•        Getting stronger
•        Loosing weight
•        Becoming a better fighter

Those are examples of goals that are too “foggy” to be addressed effectively
and with no clear means to track the progress.

In other words your goals have to:

• Be specific
Specify the improvement in your performance (my personal favorite) measured
in time, weight, reps, movement complexity or ability against a specific level of
opponent
And/or
Pounds, inches and cloth sizes of you physique that you would like to improve (a
less productive approach than the first one)

• Have a deadline
Specify a realistic time frame for your goals to be accomplished.

• Be purposeful to your needs
Make sure that your selected goals truly serve your needs instead of your ego.
For example, if your shoulders hurt, don’t set a goal of increasing your bench
press by another 50 pounds – it will make you a handicap, rather than a fitter
person. A more productive approach would be to strengthen your rotator cuffs,
improve your shoulders’ flexibility and mobility in all three ranges of motion, and
balance out the shoulder capsule strength between posterior and anterior chains.

If you are truly serious about getting permanent results from your training than you
must approach it from a long-term perspective. Therefore, you should first set
some long-term training goals (a year or more to accomplish) and than split them
up into a series of manageable short-term goals (a month or two to accomplish).

To summarize, without setting specific, purposeful and meaningful goals with a
deadline, both long and short term, your training results will be compromised.
Take some time today to think about your training goals and make sure to write
them down.

Greg Mihovich
Performance Enhancement & Combat Arts Specialist
www.UndergroundGym.com

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