Health 8 Goal Setting Process assignment

Today in Health 8 we had a number of students missing.  This is what we did today: (Once you have notes written down about the Goal Setting Process below, you are asked to think of a goal you have in mind or one that you have already completed, and follow it through the process below)

The Goal Setting Process

Step 1: Identify a Specific Goal and Write It Down

Step 2: List the Steps You Will Take to Reach Your Goal

Step 3: Get Help and Support From Others

Step 4: Identify and Overcome Obstacles

Step 5: Evaluate Your Progress

Step 6: Give Yourself a Reward

For example, I have a goal to complete a half marathon in September 2014.  Going through the goal-setting process with this goal in mind might look something like this:

Step 1: Identify a Specific Goal and Write It Down

I will complete the Queen City Half Marathon (21.1km) in Regina in September 2014

Step 2: List the Steps You Will Take to Reach Your Goal

- Register for the half marathon in January (or February?)
- Check with The Running Room store to ensure I have the correct shoes for long-distance running
- Keep running regularly (at least 3x per week)
- Increase distance in each workout/training session (ie. 10km, then 11km, 12km, etc.)

Step 3: Get Help and Support From Others

- Talk to friends who have run the half marathon before and ask for advice
- Tell the people I love who will be interested in and supportive of my goal so that they can encourage me and keep me motivated
- Run with a friend

Step 4: Identify and Overcome Obstacles

- Cardiovascular endurance (continue to take asthma medication, practice long-distance jogging regularly to improve on cardio endurance)
- Muscular endurance (practice intervals, sprints, etc.)

Step 5: Evaluate Your Progress

- As of today (Sept. 30^th, 2013) I have run 10km on 4 separate occasions
- The furthest I have run in one session is 15.7km (I am 5.4km away from my goal)
- I am challenging myself to run further than I have before

Step 6: Give Yourself a Reward
- New running shoes?
- Road trip?
- New clothing for training?

You will be given time to work on this as well as questions #1-5 on pg. 31 next class period.