It’s vital to keep and stick to your targets and goals when following a fitness routine, and if you’ve not got any, then why not?!

Write them down and log exactly what it is that you want to do. But how do you make something like a goal realistic? Simple solution. Add a time constraint!

I always overlooked the fact that when I was busy swimming all my goals and targets automatically came with pre determined time constraints. If I wanted to be national champion as one of my goals then I’d only have the national championships to be able to achieve that, so my training was geared towards achieving that.

Since finishing my swimming career I lost track on my time constraints within my goals, it’s all well and good saying “I want to get fit”, it’s better than nothing, but if you say, “I want to get fit by losing 1 stone by March”, you’ve got much more chance of achieving your goal, if you’ve not set yourself a time limit it’s always going to be put onto the back burner.

It’s also OK to fail, but just remember it’ll make you work harder, more efficiently and generally better! We learn from our mistakes and failure. No one can ever hit their every goal 1st time round. Right, I’m off for a run as time is ticking before my next goal!

Good luck!