Too many times have I seen clients make goals that are too far out of reach for the timeframe given. This is in relation to performance gains, personal bests, weight loss, dietary changes, body fat percentages, and inches lost.
Small, attainable goals are more realistic. I like to call them benchmarks because you can compare them to the past and make your future benchmark based on your present ones. A few examples would be losing one pound per week, shaving 10 seconds off of your mile run time per week, and eliminating one serving of an unhealthy food out of your diet per day.
Larger goals in unrealistic time frames often are unattainable and often can be recipes for failure. Creating a large goal of "losing 20 pounds by the summer" is not a smart goal because it offers no definitive guidelines, methods of attainment, or smaller benchmark goals en route to the large goal. Make sure those items are always present and break your ultimate goal into many smaller goals to help get you there.
See my previous posts titled "Consistency and Progression" and "Tweak it before you Delete it" where I go in depth on methods to successfully reach your goals.
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