Chapter 3 Goal Setting For the Teen Years

Chapter 3 Goal Setting For the Teen Years

Taking Control of Your Health and Fitness • Diet, exercise, and use of time • Setting realistic goals • Put in effort to reach goals

What Are Goals? • Anything you desire • Serve as a guide for what you do • Give you something to work for

Goal Setting • Long Term Goals • Take and extended period of time to reach • More general • Go to college, make a sport team, loose 20 lbs • Short Term Goals • • Can be accomplished in a short period of time Used to achieve long term goals More specific Study ever night, 20 foul shots a day, run every other day

Ladder Comparison • • Long Term goal at top of ladder Short Term goal make up rungs Help see progress Develop confidence

Goal Setting Steps • Desire • Wanting to improve • Making personal decision • Belief • If you think negative, you wont achieve • If you think positive, you will achieve • Analyze Where You Are • Starting point • Set goals based on start point • Set Realistic Goals • Too Hard get discouraged • Too Easy Lose interest • Goals should stretch you and move you out of comfort zone

Goal Setting Steps • Write Goals Down • Identify Obstacles • List Benefits Received • Identify Knowledge Needed • Helps clarify what you want • Helps move ideas along • Makes desire stronger • More benefits = More desire • Prepare yourself to help overcome • Will not see all obstacles • How to accomplish goals • Look for PE teacher/coach for help

Goal Setting Steps • Make a Plan of Action • Monitor Progress • Develop Timeline • Never Give Up • Step by step strategy • Success at a quicker rate • Organize and plot coarse to goal • Sets deadline for making progress • Readjusting LT/ST goals • Keeps from wasting time or losing interest • Stay positive • Keep goals to yourself (personal)