What Moves You?

Actually defining training goals can be a tricky proposition. You might want to set a goal to run 5 miles. That’s a great goal, but unless you are training for a marathon or regularly need to run 5 miles as a part of your daily routine, it may not be the right one for you. I have found that the best goals for people are ones that they derive a benefit out of on a daily or weekly basis.

I have two general approaches to goal-setting:

1. Choose a physical goal that means something to you in your daily life. As I mentioned, running five miles is a worthy goal, but if you struggle daily with lifting an aging parent, a better goal might be to get the strength and mobility to do help him or her more easily. We can find the metrics to make it measurable and build your training program around that. Once you’ve met the first goal, we pick another and move on.

2. Find a professional athlete whose physique you admire and would like to have. Go to the bookstore and flip open a sports magazine or wander into the fitness aisle. Once you have identified your ideal physique, we’ll figure out how the professionals in that sport train and pull the essentials out in to a plan that can be done in a few hours a week.

Find inspiration from photos of the world-class athletes below.

WHY you are training drives HOW you train.