A Guide to Crushing Your Fitness Goals

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When it comes to your personal fitness, you should always dream big because you know what? You can achieve your biggest dreams, drop all that excess weight you’re carrying around, build muscle and become the healthiest possible version of yourself. You just need to have a plan of action and a willingness to work towards not only meeting but crushing your goals.

If you want to meet all of your major fitness goals this year and beyond, here are some things that will help you:

Set Long-Term Goals

When you’re losing weight, it pays to have lots of short-term goals which are easy to achieve and give you a motivational boost, but it’s also a really good idea to have long-term goals – things you want to achieve in the next year or two. These should be tangible goals such as losing 50 pounds, attending the gym 4 days per week or adding 20 pounds of muscle to your frame, You can then break them down as you see fit, but having an end goal in sight will help to keep you motivated when nothing else will.

Ensure They’re Measurable

Any goals that you make should be measurable in nature so that you can see the progress you’re making. So, whether you get yourself a Fitbit with a fancy band from mobile mob, track your bodyweight using smart scales from PB Tech or log every walk you take ever, make sure that you are measuring the things that you’re trying to achieve. Seeing results and tracking just how far you’ve come is one of the biggest motivators to spur you on to do more and crush your goals completely.

Make Them Attainable

Of course, you should absolutely not ever set yourself up for failure. If you set yourself a goal of losing 50- pounds in 3 months, it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to do it, not if you want to stay healthy, anyway., This will just lead to disappointment and quite possibly giving up on your goals altogether, so although you should aim high, keep it within reach and within healthy limits for your body and fitness level.

Make Yourself Accountable

Telling the people who are important to you about your fitness goals and what you need to do to achieve them, and actually thinking about how they will make things better for you and your loved ones, is a great way to hold yourself accountable. Your friends and family will keep you in check and because you won’t want to disappoint them, you’ll do your best to achieve your aims too.

Make Detailed Plans

Deciding to lose 50 pounds is a start, but if you really want to crush it, you should plan exactly how you’re going to do that from how many calories you’ll take in each day, where they come from and what specific exercises you will be doing and for how long. If you have a very specific plan, then it’s a lot harder to blow it off and much easier to simply do the things that will make you healthy on autopilot.

Getting fit is never easy, but if you’re determined, you have a plan, and you know your goals, it is far from impossible. Will you put in the work to ensure you succeed?