Goal Setting Article Series
Is your exercise routine actually providing you the full results you want or are you just comfortable with what you’re doing? Are you unknowingly becoming detrained in vital areas of fitness? This article series is designed to help you develop a complete perspective to ensure that the effort you put into your exercise maximally benefits the life you want to live.
Go Deeper With Your Goals
Most people’s goals sound like: Lose weight, tone, gain muscle, improve cardio, etc. But, to stay motivated long-term, you must dig deeper…
Define Your Core Values
When you define who you want yourself to be and how that person acts, chasing goals becomes much easier!
Modern Goal Setting
The Being / Doing / Having framework will help you define the life you want to live which then helps focus your efforts onto what actually matters. When efforts are aligned, progress is profound.
What to Measure and Track
What you measure gets improved, but what if you’re measuring the wrong things…
Develop a Growth Mindset
It’s not just willpower that can be developed. Practically everything about us can be improved upon.
Adopt a Stress is Enhancing Mindset
Research shows that stress affects individuals differently and whether we perceive stress as inhibiting or enhancing plays a surprisingly huge role in our performance.
Increase Your Willpower
Now that you have real direction, it’s time to adhere to your plan.
Add “Building Grit” to Your Goals
Shift into a growth mindset and embrace the inevitable challenges of your fitness journey turning difficulty into opportunity!
Boost Your Resilience with Visualization
Are you ready for inevitable challenges? Visualization techniques can prepare you to succeed in your hardest moments.
Staying Motivated
Motivation is fleeting, but, we know we can improve our ability to embrace challenges and doing things we don’t want to do, so let’s dig into motivation’s role in your success.
Experiment for 3 Months
Can’t imagine doing or not doing something for the rest of your life? Don’t worry about it! Start with an experiment. If you adopt the habit or not, you will learn something valuable.
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Understanding the Value of Cross-Training
If you really dig deep with your goals, it’s clear that everyone’s exercise habits should be adequately rooted in cross-training. Explore how and why even deeper with our article series: Understanding the Value of Cross-Training.