Physical Fitness Goal Setting Presentation

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Physical Fitness Goal SettingPresentation

• Creating your Written Action Plan and Strategies
  for Goal Setting

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Goal Setting

• Is a mechanism that helps students understand
  their potential and feel satisfied with their
  accomplishments
• Establishes ownership of the task ahead
• Fosters pride in the process

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Important Vocabulary

• Goal 1) The purpose toward which an endeavor is
  directed objective. 2) The finish line in a
  race.
• Set 1) To put in a specified position 2) to
  establish as the highest level of performance
• Pride 1) A sense of ones own proper dignity or
  value self-respect
• Ownership 1)The state or fact of being an owner
  legal right to the possession of a thing

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Written Action Plan

• Pathway to destination
• Do pretest, to determine where to improve
• Take into account gender differences, current
  fitness levels, information on fitness
  improvement, growth and maturation
• Smaller gains for the more fit student
• Larger gains for the unfit student

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Strategies for Goal Setting

• Base on self not others, no comparing
• Motivation
• Set specific and measurable goals
• Set challenging and realistic goals
• Provide how you will change behaviors F.I.T.T.
  principle frequency, intensity, time and type
  of exercise
• Bike to school
• Curl-ups before bed
• Push-ups during TV commercials

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Strategies for Goal Setting Cont

• Write down goals
• I will reduce my mile run by ___ seconds by
  performing aerobic activity ___ times per week
  for at least ___minutes each session
• I will exercise aerobically___ times a week,
  running the one-mile distance at least ___ times
  a week, timing and logging the results.
• I will perform aerobic activity ___ times a week,
  recording the amount of time, type of activity,
  and intensity of the activity.
• I will replace sedentary (inactive) habits with
  active habits at least three times per day.

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Strategies for Goal Setting Cont

• Teachers and peers give feedback
• Periodic Evaluation
• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic rewards and motivation

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Guidelines for Goal Setting
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F.I.T.T. Principle

• Frequency how many times a week one does the
  exercise
• Intensity How intensely one does the exercise
  from rest, light, moderate, vigorous, and
  anaerobic (sprinting max effort)
• Time Length of exercise session
• Type the kind/variety of exercise one does
• Change FITT for yourself to achieve goals!