5 Ways to Achieve the Fitness Goals You Set for Yourself

As we enter into a new year, many people are setting fitness goals. It could be to exercise five days a week, to hit a 400-pound deadlift, or to take a weekly hot yoga class. Regardless of what your fitness goals are, we’re going to share with you five great tactics for ensuring that you hit those goals.

 

1- Set Clear Goals

 

One of the most important strategies is to ensure that you set a clear goal. Saying I want to be able to deadlift a lot of weight is not a clear goal. There are a lot of gray areas where you could say 200 pounds is a lot of weight or 1,000 pounds is a lot of weight. Without a clear outline of where you need to be, you’ll never know when you get there. It’s important to set a very clear goal, such as deadlifting 450 pounds. This makes it very obvious when you hit your goal.

 

2- Stay Organized

 

Another key to ensuring that you hit your fitness goals is to stay organized. It can be easy to forget things or overestimate what we have done. For example, if your goal is to work out at least four days a week, you want to record every day on a calendar that you work out. If you try to rely on memory, you may falsely think that you worked out on Monday when you actually didn’t. Before you know it, it’s the end of the week and you’re one day short. By accurately tracking your fitness goals and your progress, you can have real data to refer to when determining whether you’re reaching those goals or falling short of them.

 

3- Be Realistic

 

One other thing to keep in mind when setting fitness goals so that you can achieve them is to be realistic. For example, if your current deadlift is 200 pounds, it’s not going to be very feasible to think that you can increase it to 800 pounds within a year. All setting this goal would do is constantly show you that you’re falling short of an unrealistic goal which can deter you from setting more fitness goals. To ensure that you achieve your goals, they need to be relatively realistic for you.

 

4- Have a Plan

 

Another key aspect of reaching fitness goals is having a clear plan to get there. If you just say that you want to work out four days a week but don’t have a plan of where you’re going to work out or what you’re going to do, it’s going to be a very hard day to maintain that goal. Anytime that you decide to work out, you have to come up with the answers of where to go and what to do. When you already have planned out that you can work out by doing cardio at the gym, weight lifting at home, and even walking at the park, you have a clear path to an easy decision.

 

5- Enlist a Friend

 

One surefire way to help ensure that you reach your fitness goals is to work alongside a friend. Both of you should set goals and push each other to achieve them. It can be very helpful to have another person who relies on you to help get you motivated on those days when you just don’t feel like doing anything. People are more likely to do more for others than they are for themselves.