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¡·Improved Energy L evel
¡·Improved Sleep Patterns
¡·Improved Sports Performance
¡·Improved Cardiovascular Endurance
¡·Stress R eduction
If possible tr y to define your personal goal in precise, measurable terms,
and then put your goal in writing. The more specific you can be, the easier
it will be to track your progress. If your goals are long term, divide them up
into monthly, then weekly segments. L onger term goals can lose some of
the immediate motivating benefits. Short term goals are easier to achieve.
Your Johnson Treadmill console provides you with several readouts that can
be used to record your progress. You track Distance, Calories or Time. Time
is the most important and useful of these functions.
Sample Goals:
Goal setting is a popular motivational technique. It’s important to set goals
and reward yourself when initiating a new exercise program because you’re
attempting to break current patterns and form a new habit. Whether you
use this technique or another, mak e fitness a priority in your life. You can
achieve the ultimate reward to yourself - you can establish the ex ercise
habit! Some sample goals may be:
¡·To strengthen my heart by exercising 24 minutes three days a week.
(Goal Measurement: Exercise Time = 72 minutes a week.)
¡·To improve my body’s ability to burn fat by ex ercising at a low intensity
for 48 minutes per day, 5 days a week.
(Goal Measurement: Exercise Time = 240 minutes a week.)
¡·To burn off work related stress by ex ercising for 20 minutes a day on
week days. (Goal Measurement: Exercise Time = 100 minutes a week.)
Keeping an Exercise Dair y
Photocopy the weekly and annual log sheets on the following pages to
make your personal exercise log book. As time goes by you’ll be able to
look back with pride at the work you’re done. As your fitness improves, you
can look back and see how far you’re come.
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