Aim For One Fitness Goal At A Time
The most important rule behind goal setting for fitness, is that you must pick a single objective and work toward it.
It's extremely difficult (if not impossible) to train for multiple goals simultaneously.
Example 1: If you would like to train for a marathon but you would also like to build muscle, you will have to take on only one target at a time.
Training for a Marathon involves a busy schedule of cardiovascular training and a diet rich in complex carbohydrates.
Where as weight lifting for mass gain calls for a diet which is higher in protein and requires more days off for rest.
More rest will really slow down your marathon training.
If your legs are too sore from lifting, how will you run six days a week? Example 2: A popular goal is to lose weight and put on muscle.
Understandably a lot of people want a great physique by filling out their form with toned muscles and losing weight in the midsection for the perfect beach body.
This is possible.
Just in two separate stages, called bulking and cutting.
Your first goal would be to bulk up.
To do this, you eat more calories than you burn and work hard in the weight room to turn that food energy in to muscle.
After gaining healthy, muscular mass you turn to your cutting cycle.
During this phase you cut down your calorie intake and hit the cardio equipment more often.
This will burn off the layer of fat that lays on top of the muscle.
The end result is bigger more toned muscles, and less body fat.
So your hard earned muscles will be visible and you will have achieved the perfect summer bod! During your bulking phase you will lose body fat Just as when you train for a marathon you put muscle on in your lower body.
It's a positive side effect of the goal you originally set out to achieve.
Effective goal planning requires that you have a single goal in mind, and that you plan your way to that objective.
Think of the one goal at a time rule like shooting an arrow.
You aim with your bow and then shoot the arrow straight at the target.
At the end of every practice it's easy to see where you are improving and where you might be going wrong.
However, if you are shooting without aiming, without a target or with multiple targets you are not practicing and progressing your archery skills very effectively.
Really, you are just playing around! If you have multiple goals in mind hire a personal trainer to organize your goals in the most effective and progressive order.
A Personal Trainer will help you break them down, in to manageable weekly targets.
You and your trainer can go through exercise routines to achieve your goals as quickly as possible.
So you can say "I did that!" and move on to your next fitness success.
Plan It!
It's extremely difficult (if not impossible) to train for multiple goals simultaneously.
Example 1: If you would like to train for a marathon but you would also like to build muscle, you will have to take on only one target at a time.
Training for a Marathon involves a busy schedule of cardiovascular training and a diet rich in complex carbohydrates.
Where as weight lifting for mass gain calls for a diet which is higher in protein and requires more days off for rest.
More rest will really slow down your marathon training.
If your legs are too sore from lifting, how will you run six days a week? Example 2: A popular goal is to lose weight and put on muscle.
Understandably a lot of people want a great physique by filling out their form with toned muscles and losing weight in the midsection for the perfect beach body.
This is possible.
Just in two separate stages, called bulking and cutting.
Your first goal would be to bulk up.
To do this, you eat more calories than you burn and work hard in the weight room to turn that food energy in to muscle.
After gaining healthy, muscular mass you turn to your cutting cycle.
During this phase you cut down your calorie intake and hit the cardio equipment more often.
This will burn off the layer of fat that lays on top of the muscle.
The end result is bigger more toned muscles, and less body fat.
So your hard earned muscles will be visible and you will have achieved the perfect summer bod! During your bulking phase you will lose body fat Just as when you train for a marathon you put muscle on in your lower body.
It's a positive side effect of the goal you originally set out to achieve.
Effective goal planning requires that you have a single goal in mind, and that you plan your way to that objective.
Think of the one goal at a time rule like shooting an arrow.
You aim with your bow and then shoot the arrow straight at the target.
At the end of every practice it's easy to see where you are improving and where you might be going wrong.
However, if you are shooting without aiming, without a target or with multiple targets you are not practicing and progressing your archery skills very effectively.
Really, you are just playing around! If you have multiple goals in mind hire a personal trainer to organize your goals in the most effective and progressive order.
A Personal Trainer will help you break them down, in to manageable weekly targets.
You and your trainer can go through exercise routines to achieve your goals as quickly as possible.
So you can say "I did that!" and move on to your next fitness success.
Plan It!
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