What is the goal of this workout today?
We all come into the workout room with different needs, strengths, and expectations. To some, not having a specific goal for every workout is actually unfathomable.
My goal for this workout
Keep track of specific exercises that have been done in the past and perform in more progressively challenging ways. These techniques help you to burn more fat:
- Perform the exercise faster on the concentric, and slower on the eccentric
- Use more resistance than before
- Greater amount of reps using the same weight
- Decrease rest intervals without sacrificing heavy weight
- Using heavy weights in a larger range of motion
- Improving your form and technique with weights that you struggled with before
- Combination of the above
Time constraints can be motivating, as is some healthy Orangetheory Fitness competition
I don’t often speak to these accomplishments even if it is noticeable it helps me stay motivated in fitness.
Examples of a good goal to have
Let’s talk about a treadmill goal to begin with. Of course we’re following a HIIT program and the ideal length for a treadmill workout is between 20-30 minutes.
You can try to improve your times in the following ways:
- Your one-mile time
- Your half-mile time
- Your quarter mile time
- Your tenth of a mile time
Kyle Anderson from Seattle on the right running hard
You can further improve fat loss by:
- Your .25 mile run at 3% incline
- Your .25 mile run at 5% incline
- Your .25 mile run at 7% incline
Then on a later workout once you have recovered, do your .25 mile run at 1% incline and you will likely be able to run faster than you did before at that particular incline!
Thus progress! Fat cells should get smaller due to this physical and neural progression in muscular contraction.
Once you have accomplished it, nobody can take that away from you!
It’s yours.
Now believe in it and go with it