Fitness Planning

Setting Goals and Designing Your Own Personal Fitness Plan.

Why do we set goals?

l To have something to shoot for.

l To measure our progress.

l To use as a tool for designing programs.

l To evaluate our programs.

What a goal is:

S.M.A.R.T.

l S – specific

l M – measurable

l A – achievable

l R – realistic

l T – time dependent

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 1: From your testing results sheet, write in under the correct fitness component, the name of the test performed and your score for that test.

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 2: Looking at the performance charts on the handout, see how your score rates compared to others in your age group.

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 3: Based on your current score and the charts, decide where you would like to be at the end of the semester.

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 4: Write that score in as the goal.

* Remember: S.M.A.R.T.

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 5: On the Activity Evaluation sheet, write in activities that you would like to include in your own personal fitness program.

Setting Your Own Fitness Goals:

l Step 6: For each activity, fill in a score (1-3) for each of the categories.

Designing Your Own Fitness Plan:

l Step 7: Using the F.I.T.T. Principle, fill in for each letter what it will take for you to reach your goal. This will be done for each fitness component on the goal setting sheet.

Designing Your Own Fitness Plan:

· For general guidelines, see the General Recommendations sheet. Also use your

completed Activity Evaluation sheet form determining appropriate types of exercise.

You are now finished!

l By completing this goal setting and designing your own personal fitness plan, you will satisfy Task #2 of the Minnesota Graduation Standard for Decision Making – Physical Education/Fitness.