1. Chapter 5: Learning Self management Skills
Goal setting

2. Lesson objectives Being able to answer these questions:
How can goal setting help you?
What guidelines should you follow w/goalsetting

3. How do successful people set goals to achieve?
Set personally important/realistic but challenging goals
Monitor progress
Adjust behavior

4. Important things to remember about long term physical activity goals?
Improvement in physical fitness
Often difficult
Takes periods of time to achieve
Give many personal benefirts

5. Why write down long term fitness goals?
Writing down=commitment
Written goals ^ the chances of meeting them

6. What technology can help you with goal setting?
These can record long term goals:
Computers
Digital assistants (Palm Pilot)

7. Features of short term goals
Reached in short amount of time
Few days or weeks
Help accomplish long term goals

8. Examples of short term goals
Lifting weights for days and weeks (improves muscular strength and endurance)

9. Problems of “improving fitness” as a short term goal?
Improving fitness takes time
Needs continued adherence to a program

10. Guidelines for setting goals?
be Realistic
Be Specific
Personalize: goals that are realistic for you not others
Write them down
Know the reasons
Consider all parts of fitness
Self assess
Set new goals periodically
Revise if necessary
Reward yourself
Consider maintenance goals

11. Taking charge: setting goals
Read about Kevin and Mr.Booker in the taking charge section of chapter 5 (Pg 85)
Are Kevin’s goals realistic?
What advice do you think Mr.Booker gave to Kevin?
What kind of goal did Kevin set?

12. Questions continued What kinds of goals do you think Kevin needs?
What else can Kevin do to set a realistic goal?
You can use goal setting worksheet for planning

13. More questions
How can you use long and short term goals to plan you fitness program?
List some appropriate guidelines you should follow that is on your level.

14. Extra Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFT6uP1fIFI