Know When to Readjust Your Performance Goals!
Recently we have been creating 6 week challenges where we create goals that we want to progress at and that will improve strength, endurance and willpower while creating great habits! The first 6 weeks went great, I crushed it every week! Although the challenge was definitely tough, the exercises or the ability to complete them wasn’t completely out of the scope of my abilities. The next 6 weeks I wanted to up the ante so I changed some things up and added in some tough movements that I haven’t tried in years! I was excited and decided 50 muscle ups a week was a great idea and totally doable, boy was I wrong! So did I just quit? Reduce the numbers? Pick something else? Let’s break it down when and how should you adjust your goals to stay on track!
When to Adjust Your Goals
Risk of Injury
This should be the number 1 reason you change your goals. If you feel like your getting injured or may get injured doing something your body may not be ready for then 100% change it up! If you’re injured you won’t be able to accomplish any goals or may not even be able to play in your season (which is the most important thing)!
It’s Doesn’t Suit Your Goal Set
You could realize at some point that maybe the style of training you chose or specific exercises aren’t really geared towards your ultimate goals. So you can totally adjust them and tweak as you see fit, as long as it still suits your goal set!
Your Goals Change
It’s totally possible that goals could completely change! In this scenario a complete goal set re-haul could be in order, but don’t just change them up for the sake of changing them up. Only if it truly makes sense, either a complete sport change or maybe change it up from only a strength focused training program to a more balanced approach!
When Not to Adjust Your Goals
It’s Tough but No Potential of Injury
Don’t just adjust your goals because they’re a little tough in the beginning, that’s the whole point they’re supposed to be tough! But…if there’s a potential for getting injured it’s always best to think about a potential readjust! Small adjustments are okay because that keeps your still progressing forward, just don’t stop completely!
Your Bored
Boredom is never a good reason to adjust your goals, especially if your goals aren’t changing! If you’re training to prepare for a season and slack off or keep jumping from one goal to another without completing the previous one you’re just setting yourself up for failure! Not to mention, this is terrible mentality and bad habit to be building! Accomplishing goals is a grind and can get very monotonous but if you want the result at the end you have to stay the course and keep pushing forward!
Randomly Changing Programs
It’s so easy nowadays to see something on instagram or see some random program online and think maybe I should try this or jump on this program instead. Again some adjustments and changes can be beneficial but randomly switching programs all the time because something looks cool or sounds cool is always a recipe for disaster!
So wait…what ever happened with my muscle up goals?! After lots of careful thought and attempts to push through I decided to adjust the amount reps I was doing so I could relearn the movement properly, not rush the reps and ensure I won’t get injured (which I felt like was definitely coming), most important thing when it comes to your goals is being able to continually and relentlessly pursue them! Can’t do that if you’re injured! Also I upped one of my other goals that I felt was too easy to create a good compromise for reducing the other one 💪
This is a great blueprint to follow when you ask yourself should I switch or readjust my goals? As always if you have any questions feel free to reach out, would love to help! Thanks for reading!
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Written by:
Rob Jost – ACE-CPT, NSCA-CPT
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