How to Create Fitness Goals?

People often want to set fitness goals every year. However, only a few achieve it with concentrated efforts. Keeping achievable, measurable, relevant, specific, realistic, and timely goals can make reaching them almost impossible.

However, taking a few specific steps can help to achieve more than the set goals. Unfortunately, the hard truth isn't available on most websites because they want to keep you motivated. But unlike them, I am not going to focus on them because you are already aware of such facts.

To set fitness goals for this and upcoming years, focus on the following criteria:

• Go After Your Favorite Workout or Exercise

Don't make a goal like losing 5 to 10 Kgs or achieving a specific physique. These factors require an experienced personal fitness trainer to help you throughout the day. The monthly costs of hiring such a coach can deprive your potential monthly income.

However, an experienced fitness coach would help to achieve such goals without fail. Moreover, you might even gain better results than expected. Anyways, focus on doing a specific workout or exercise for a few months.

For example, if you add Yoga, calisthenics, parkour, body weight, or other workouts to your fitness goals, you might achieve it. Similarly, if you concentrate on doing a handstand, L-Sit, V-Sit, pike push up, back handspring, or backflip, you might require tremendous strength.

Furthermore, to complete a single exercise, you might require to incorporate a few smaller exercises. Therefore, you would start working out before realization and even work towards achieving advanced versions.

• Utilize Your Impatience

Often we become pessimistic or impatient because the duration of attaining fitness goals exceeds our targets. Therefore, the best method to overcome this issue is by utilizing impatience.

It means you should practice a particular workout or exercise as often as possible. Don't schedule a time and become worried about working out. Instead, practice plausible routines whenever and wherever possible.

For example, if you work from home and have a low work down, then do a few calf raises, wrist rotations, neck bends, etc. If your office doesn't require a camera view of the employees, you can do other exercises while waiting for a reply.

People uncomfortable with the idea of working out during office hours can use spare time. If you sleep, eat, and work in 16-hours, you have 8-hours remaining. Therefore, make use of this time by fixing your sleep pattern.

Besides this, utilize your Sunday and week off to cool down, boost stamina, enhance strength, decrease calories, burn fat, etc., without exercising. Many diets can help to achieve these goals every week.

But don't become impatient while exercising; otherwise, you can face injuries. Stay alert and careful with every movement.

• Find DIY Equipment, Exercises, and Workouts

Although I believe in functional fitness workouts without using any equipment; however, I don't have any problems using a few gears. The internet has many do-it-yourself (DIY) workouts, exercises, and equipment tips.

You can follow the guidelines to use unused items at your residence to build equipment and use them for muscle building. Similarly, parkour, calisthenics, yoga, and bodyweight training don't require any equipment.

However, you can practice specific exercises by going to an outdoor park with chin-up or monkey bars. Alternatively, buying a chin-up bar for use at home can prove useful if you find discomfort in going for outside practices.

Additionally, planche, L-Sit, wall sit, chair sit, V-Sit, crow pose, handstand, and other exercises don't require equipment. So, add them to your goals, or rather start practicing and write down achievements later on.

• Focus on Strength Training

Often, while building fitness goals, many people forget to add increased strength to the list. The key reason is ignorance towards strength training or thinking that it would become a part of the routine.

However, a person requires to complete a few strength training routines to boost overall results. A few exercises to include in this routine include side-to-side jumps, knee tucks, burpees, explosive push-ups, muscle-ups, human flag, chin-up hold, etc.

Unfortunately, you might complete many of these challenging exercises. Therefore, I would advise practicing them regularly and as often as possible. In my personal experience, I dropped from 15-20 chin-ups to 3-5 in a set after ignoring them for six months.

Regular practitioners can achieve their level back in a week, month, or year. Advanced athletes should incorporate intensive routines and challenging exercises. Some of them include clap push-ups, grasshopper jumps, straddle jumps, backflips, front flips, etc.

• Develop a Mindset

The last and most important fact that I want you to include in your fitness goals is to develop a mindset. It means you don't have to think about achieving a particular purpose. Instead, it would help if you thought about advanced exercises and workouts.

Therefore, the craving for achieving better goals would never finish, and attaining existing goals would become complimentary. Unfortunately, many people might crib against unconventional practices like muscle-ups, human flags, duck walks, frog jumps, etc.

Ignore their negativity and stay focussed on the advanced-level goals like two-finger planche, single hand push-ups, increasing hold duration, etc. Keep your mind cool by doing a few breathing exercises every day.

Summary

To conclude, you should have five primary fitness goals that I have already covered in this blog. Follow them diligently, and share your results under the comment section. If you haven't found the right workout or exercises, then visit Skillenergizer's YouTube channel.

Optionally, hire an online fitness trainer to attain such goals and stay focused. I hope these goals have a long-lasting effect on your fitness journey. For any queries, do write back.