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Do You Need A Goal?

The answer is yes. Yes. Yes, you need a goal. You have to have a goal otherwise all this is for nothing, right? If you don't have a specific goal and hit the right percentage of the right poundages from the calculator you got from the website you subscribe to and then forget to post it on Instagram then what's the point?

That was me in late 2014...then again in late 2015...and maybe for a smidge in early 2016.

I got wrapped up in the question of, "why am I doing this?" Though I was never honest enough to get an answer from myself. From a relatively young ago I always trained for the purpose of sport and later competition so to train for...myself...seemed odd to me and I couldn't wrap my head around it. As result of that I subjected myself to a lot of self-loathing that I could've spared and spent a ton of energy on being negative and most likely set myself back a few years.

So what does this mean for you? Well, it really depends on what you want, and here's why. The secret of programming is that it only helps you if you are training for SOMETHING. A contest, a goal weight or even a PR in the gym, but if you don't have something CONCRETE that you are working toward, chances are when you hit the wall you will fall by the wayside and that's that. Want another secret? That's okay. It's totally okay if you slack off in your fitness regime that is not tied to a goal or other thing that you are trying to accomplish. That's because when you don't have a goal written down, you're just training to train. You're going through the motions, burning the calories and sweating off the pounds and it's ALL GOOD. Don't think that you have to have a goal in mind to "justify" working out, and by the same token don't think that working out without a goal in mind a waste of time.

The average person just wants to be healthier, and that's probably the best goal there is, so why can't you just head to the gym after work, put in an hour or so and come home? There's not an express need to track your pounds or even your exercises, just go work up a sweat and do the work. Be honest about what your doing and if what your doing is training for the sake of your heart and your health, then don't detract from that by raking yourself over the coals at your lack of a long-term goal.

Too many people these days get wrapped up in the specific nature of things that ultimately live and die on the internet. Go out and live a little, work up a sweat, discover something new in the gym and save the goal planning for later. Having a goal is great, but it means nothing if you don't put in the work!

Now, as my hero C.T Fletcher might say, "get your punk ass to the gym!"

And as always, if you don't believe in anything else-believe in yourself!

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