Personal Fitness Program Jun 6 | Page 37

REFLECTION

2. How were your goals modified? Why?

The reasoning behind my old goals was too informal and complicated, which confused me on what the status of my goal was. I decided to focus on more long-term goals that force me to challenge myself and also has a good rationale behind why I’m actually doing it. My first goal changed completely. This time I stated my goal more specifically by stating a current time and the time I want to achieve. This gives me an incentive to workout. My old goals were not specific enough therefore I didn’t find the reason to do it, which wasn’t effective. Secondly, my old goals were focused on things that were immeasurable. For instance for my old SMART goal, I stated that I wanted to improve my back strength, however I didn’t state the ways I was going to do it. For my new goals I state the way I’m going to monitor my progress, which would motivate me more to work hard on each goal, since I actually know what I’m doing. Lastly, my old SMART goals consisted of things I was uncomfortable doing and things that I didn’t have equipment for. For example in my old goal I stated that I was going to use the leg extensors, however I didn’t have it at home. Therefore my excuse for not doing it was that I didn’t’ have it. This also made me lose motivation to workout at all, eventually making my goal useless. For my new goals I made sure I had the equipment. For example I have a weight at home for my bicep curls. My other workout option can be done at home manually. This gives me no excuse to why I shouldn’t workout especially during summer.