Anybody Have New Years Fitness Goals?

This is going to be a short post, but I wanted to bring up the subject of New Years fitness resolutions. Now that we have officially entered the new year, it's time to take a good hard look at our lives and work on anything that needs improvement. For a lot of you, that may mean spending more time and effort concentrating on your fitness goals.

When it comes to New Years resolutions, it's important not to go too over the top. It's easy to set really lofty goals for yourself, but when you really sit down and examine those goals later they just seem too overwhelming. In fact the best way to go about setting New Years resolutions is to set yourself distinct milestones.

Let's say you want to bench press 200 lbs by the end of the year, and currently you can only do 120 comfortably. Instead of just saying, “Ok, I'm just gonna work hard until I get to 200.” -break it up into more manageable numbers. You could say that by the end of February you will be bench pressing 140 lbs. By June you'll be at 160, and so on. Or you could even get more narrow. You might say that every 15 days you will increase the weight by 5 lbs.

The basic idea is that the more you break it down, the easier it will be to hit each mini goal along the way, and before you know it you might be breaking 200 lbs a few months before your original plan.

If you have any New Years resolutions for fitness or weight loss, go ahead and put them in the comments section. Let's see what everybody hopes to do this New Year!

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