SuPeR SMART Plan!
A SuPeR SMART plan is a helpful tool designed for helping one to reach their desired goals. It heps you to develop a a manageable target with long and short term goals.
Self-controllable:
To properly obtain your set goals you must first make sure that they are within your control. This step helps you to see a more approachable and specific goal, rather than a general goal.
My Goal:
I plan to go to the gym Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday each week for at least 90 minutes.
Public:
To help with achieving your goal, it is important to create reminders such as calendars, notes, or other tools and put them around your house for others too see, and it will also help to keep you on track.
My Public Goal:
To help keep me on track I aim to start putting my workout schedule on a calendar, and asking friends to go with me to help push me at the gym.
Rewards:
A positive way to keep someone on track of reaching their goals is rewards. Rewarding yourself for reaching your long and short term goals will help to motivate you to continue on in your strive. However, this reward should help you with your goal and not counteract it.
My Rewards Goal:
For my short term goal reward I would get myself a new pair of runners, which is something that would motivate me to keep reaching toward my long term goal. For my long term goal, I believe that reaching the goal itself is a reward on its on, just seeing that I can make this change and seeing what it does to me as a person is a good enough reward for me.
Specific:
In order to properly achieve your goals you must set specific goals so that you know where to start. Instead of general, think more specific, it will help you to recognize what you need to do for long and short term goals.
My Specific Goal:
I plan to go to the gym 3 times a week, for at least 90 minutes. While at the gym I plan to focus in on cardio as well as strengthening exercises.
Measurable:
When creating long and short term goals, you must consider goals that can actually be measured. It will help you to dial in on what you need to do.
My Measurable Goal:
To measure my goals, I plan to keep a workout diary as well as keep track on a calendar. To physically measure what I will be doing, I plan to go to the gym for at least 90 minutes, dedicating half to cardio and half to strength training and stretching.
Adjustable:
To have an effective goal plan you need to make sure that your plan is flexible. One can never be sure what is going to happen from one day to the next, so you need to make sure that you can make up for whatever you skipped out on.
My Adjustable Goal:
Since I plan to work out three days a week, if I end up having to miss a workout session, I can easily and effortlessly move it to a different day.
Realistic:
To determine if your goal is realistic or not you must evaluate the other aspects in your life such as financial, environmental, physical, and emotional situations. You need to make sure that your goal is realistic for you, so that you have a higher chance of reaching it.
My Realistic Goal:
I plan to use the gym at Humber College which is at no cost to me, and it is only a short walk away. I plan to incorporate time into my schedule to make sure that I can handle a workout on the days I have planned.
Time-Based:
To ensure you are successful with your goal, you need to be able to factor in a time frame for your short and long term goals. By setting this time frame you get an idea of the time you are working with and it will help to keep you on track.
My Time-Based Goal:
Starting out I plan to go to the gym once or twice a week, but only for 30-45 minutes until my body adjusts. By the 4th week I want to be able to be at the gym three times a week for the same amount of time, this will be my short term goal. For my long term goal I plan to be in the gym three times or more a week for at least an hour and a half by week 8. Every week I plan to start increasing not only my time at the gym but also the weights I'm using and amount of cardio and stretching I do.
By using the SuPeR SMART model from Health The Basics I have been able to create my goal plan. I believe that my goal is applicable and very realistic and obtainable.
Self-controllable:
To properly obtain your set goals you must first make sure that they are within your control. This step helps you to see a more approachable and specific goal, rather than a general goal.
My Goal:
I plan to go to the gym Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday each week for at least 90 minutes.
Public:
To help with achieving your goal, it is important to create reminders such as calendars, notes, or other tools and put them around your house for others too see, and it will also help to keep you on track.
My Public Goal:
To help keep me on track I aim to start putting my workout schedule on a calendar, and asking friends to go with me to help push me at the gym.
Rewards:
A positive way to keep someone on track of reaching their goals is rewards. Rewarding yourself for reaching your long and short term goals will help to motivate you to continue on in your strive. However, this reward should help you with your goal and not counteract it.
My Rewards Goal:
For my short term goal reward I would get myself a new pair of runners, which is something that would motivate me to keep reaching toward my long term goal. For my long term goal, I believe that reaching the goal itself is a reward on its on, just seeing that I can make this change and seeing what it does to me as a person is a good enough reward for me.
Specific:
In order to properly achieve your goals you must set specific goals so that you know where to start. Instead of general, think more specific, it will help you to recognize what you need to do for long and short term goals.
My Specific Goal:
I plan to go to the gym 3 times a week, for at least 90 minutes. While at the gym I plan to focus in on cardio as well as strengthening exercises.
Measurable:
When creating long and short term goals, you must consider goals that can actually be measured. It will help you to dial in on what you need to do.
My Measurable Goal:
To measure my goals, I plan to keep a workout diary as well as keep track on a calendar. To physically measure what I will be doing, I plan to go to the gym for at least 90 minutes, dedicating half to cardio and half to strength training and stretching.
Adjustable:
To have an effective goal plan you need to make sure that your plan is flexible. One can never be sure what is going to happen from one day to the next, so you need to make sure that you can make up for whatever you skipped out on.
My Adjustable Goal:
Since I plan to work out three days a week, if I end up having to miss a workout session, I can easily and effortlessly move it to a different day.
Realistic:
To determine if your goal is realistic or not you must evaluate the other aspects in your life such as financial, environmental, physical, and emotional situations. You need to make sure that your goal is realistic for you, so that you have a higher chance of reaching it.
My Realistic Goal:
I plan to use the gym at Humber College which is at no cost to me, and it is only a short walk away. I plan to incorporate time into my schedule to make sure that I can handle a workout on the days I have planned.
Time-Based:
To ensure you are successful with your goal, you need to be able to factor in a time frame for your short and long term goals. By setting this time frame you get an idea of the time you are working with and it will help to keep you on track.
My Time-Based Goal:
Starting out I plan to go to the gym once or twice a week, but only for 30-45 minutes until my body adjusts. By the 4th week I want to be able to be at the gym three times a week for the same amount of time, this will be my short term goal. For my long term goal I plan to be in the gym three times or more a week for at least an hour and a half by week 8. Every week I plan to start increasing not only my time at the gym but also the weights I'm using and amount of cardio and stretching I do.
By using the SuPeR SMART model from Health The Basics I have been able to create my goal plan. I believe that my goal is applicable and very realistic and obtainable.