Fitness
How To Set Fitness Goals To Challenge Yourself
Having a goal means knowing where to start and where you want to go.
Understanding why it is important to choose a training goal is crucial in starting to do so and proceeding correctly. There is no aspect in life that does not have a purpose, a goal. It can be more or less ambitious, simple or challenging, rewarding or stressful, but there must be a goal. Even in personal training.
Having a goal means knowing where to start and where you want to go, in the time you have available. An athlete who has to participate in a competition knows that he has certain months to acquire the right physical shape, whoever decides to practice fitness privately must set himself goals even 'only' in time, in order to do a number of exercises in a predetermined period of time.
There are many reasons for the usefulness of setting a training goal, not least those relating to motivation and correction. Without a goal to reach, it is difficult to move forward, in life as in training; why keep on struggling if I don't know for what purpose I do it? And then there is the whole aspect of correcting errors. Only when the goal is not reached can one understand where one went wrong and how to intervene, correct oneself, in order to achieve it.
How to do it
Now let's get into a very complex and delicate discussion, how to set the training goal. As we said at the beginning, in order to do this, you need to consider your own conditions, physical and not only, so the principles that we will now explain are general, but must then be evaluated in the light of your condition and possibilities.
When practicing the street workout, there can be several goals you want to achieve: increase your strength, improve endurance, build muscle mass, improve your agility, keep fit, lose weight or use this discipline as a preparation for a workout. specific sporting activity. These seven possibilities already determine part of the goal to be set.
When to do it
Training frequency is also important for the goal. A premise is fundamental: training is not filling an empty container (the body) with as many things as possible (the exercises), but a series of exercises based on that body and not on a generic body, which also necessarily requires rest and recovery times.
In general, it is possible to set monthly or weekly training goals and adjust to this temporal measure also on the number of times in which to train. For a beginner it can also be optimal to start with a workout of two days a week, for a more intense one (except for specific needs) you can also switch to three days a week, alternating a training day with a rest day.
A generic example of a weekly street workout could include exercises on the upper body on Monday (deltoids, pectorals, biceps and abdominals), on Wednesday those relating to the lower body (buttocks, thighs, calves) and on Friday those relating to the lower body. for the bust and the central part of the body.
With these general indications it is possible to be able to set a goal for your training. Obviously, nothing prevents you from changing it over time, increasing the intensity or modifying it so that it brings real and not hypothetical benefits to your body. Especially for those who do not carry out a street workout for sporting purposes, they may have greater flexibility in the type of exercises to be done and in the time to devote to them, but be careful not to neglect them. Thinking that you can dedicate yourself to training "only when you have time" means failing every goal prematurely. Setting one, in fact, also means overcoming that phase of starvation typical of beginners, always having at hand reachable goals and with appreciable results, so as to never give up this mode of well-being for oneself and one's life.