Goal Setting Flashcards
What is the importance of setting a goal?
A goal in sport may be to improve you cardiovascular fitness level or to increase your hand-eye-co-ordination.
What can a goal help you do?
Focus on what’s important
Increase your motivation to progress
Develop new strategies to achieve the goal
Monitor how well you are doing.
Why is goal setting so effective?
Goal setting is incredibly effective with dramatic and positive effects on performance. It’s important to select the right goal for you which is personal to your performance.
What does SMART stand for?
Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Bound
What do fitness tests do?
Help evaluate your current level of fitness before setting goals. Results from these tests will help you to work out areas of strength and areas that need improvement.
Specific:
Having a specific goal means knowing exactly what the goal is. Specific goals can act as clear steps towards the overall goal.
Measurable:
Measurable goals means that you know when you have achieved them. This can be seen when comparing fitness test results that you have gone further or faster from the use of data.
Achievable:
It is important that your goals stretch you but are possible to achieve. Setting unachievable goals can make you feel demotivated and you are less likely to achieve your target.
Realistic:
A goal may well be achievable in theory but if it is to be achievable in practice you need to have the time and resources to complete it.
Time-bound:
When your goals don’t have a time limit, it can be harder to achieve it. All goals need to have a time limit or deadline for when you want to achieve it. This will also give you more motivation to achieve it.
What is the importance of setting the right target?
Setting the right target will help you to focus on the right training methods.
What should you do when setting a goal?
Once you have set your goal you need to monitor your progress and once you have achieved this goal, set a new goal, possibly bigger than your previous goal.
