I learned a thing or two at Personal Training School; how to use the word ‘challenging’ instead of ‘really, really hard‘ and how to very poorly count repetitions. There were even some exercise instructions in there too, as I recall. But one extremely useful and seasonally relevant lesson I learned was how to set goals with clients. So here’s some advice on how to set and stick to your new year’s exercise resolutions and goals. First things first, what is a goal? It’s “The object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result”. Exactly. It’s something you want, and it’s my job to help you figure out how to set your best goals and how to achieve them. Before any of my clients touch a dumbbell or do a single push up, we set goals. And we review these goals at appropriate intervals in our journey together. But why set Fitness Goals in the first place? So you don’t turn around five years from now and have regrets. Let’s move on to how we set those goals,  and here is that point where I stop to explore the old mnemonic acronym S.M.A.R.T. It gets trotted out every time anyone writes ...

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