Bring on February
In January (phew glad it’s over and we can get through the rest of the year!) everywhere you looked there were plans for how to achieve your goals, often for a price 🙄. Personally I’ve never been a fan of waiting for an arbitrary day/month to make a change. If it’s something you really want to do, why are you putting it off?
My last year was a continuation of making better choices and focusing on creating habits I can sustain (hopefully) in the long. They’re pretty open ended, and evolve to fit into my current lifestyle.
I don’t like putting time frames or deadlines on my goals. It’s ongoing, and about making me feel better – both mentally and physically. Currently that’s learning, getting stronger, better nutrition, feeling healthier, prioritising sleep and having a more positive mindset. None of these have been a linear process, and there will be more, highs and lows along the way. But that’s ok. I know I’m trending in the right direction for me.
When setting your own goals one thing that I find helpful is looking at outcome goals, and process goals. Ok so you want to lose Xkg = outcome, what are you putting into place to do that = process?
My goals
For example at the gym I want to increase my hip thrust to 150kg (outcome). How am I going to achieve that? I make sure I regularly and consistently attend the strength classes @sftmacclesfield while also following Mike’s PT program for me – progressive overload and all that jazz! In the last few months that’s taken me to just shy of a 130kg 1RM.
This is my favourite compound lift (partly because it isn’t impeded by any injuries!) Sometimes you can spend so long trying to reach an endpoint you forget to enjoy the process. The people and the classes at SFT are great, but they’re also fun and that’s just as important.
(Reposted from Instagram)
