Fitness Planning and Goals

So fitness month is here. And honestly I'm really feeling like this is good timing. With all the holiday crazyness and the more intense projects at work, my head is just not in the game for trying to learn things after hours if you will. However, taking the effort to stretch, walk or cook a good healthy meal seems totally satifying and worth it. Today I read back over some of my fitness goals as I plan out the month, here's a screen shot of my brainstorming in Evernote, one of my favorite planning tools, also super helpful for my scaterbrained nature.

I think this time around it was really important to start to have some actual long term goals, but also to think about what the steps to those start to look like. I'd like to become a super athlete, but there is a long hard journey from me to that, so what do my first steps really look like?

What are my goals specifically for this month?

Weigh 180lbs: 15lb loss, this is a big loss, however with my current weight and how much I have to lose, coupled with how much I've managed to lose in a short time in the past, I think it's doable!

Run a Mile: Last Wednesday at my first attempt I was already able to run 1/4th of a mile, and I really felt like I could keep at it, I just want to be carefully with the old injuries in both my knee and my back. This goal feels really, really doable.

I think in all reality these two goals are enough. It's going to be a stretch, but I know that the back end will be totally worth it, no pun intended.

So what am I doing to get there? I'm at the gym 3 days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and I'm "playing" on the weekends, aka doing things that are physical but are not "exorcise" aka designed for a specifical measurable outcome. Here are my workouts for my gym days:

Tuesday -
Squats
Pushups
Lat Pull Down (pull up scaled)
Hip Raises
Plank
10 Minutes Cardio

Wednesday -
Rotate: Sprinting 6x50m with 6x50m warmup
            Tread Mill Running 5m Run, 2m Walk, increase run time each week.

Thursday -
Deadlift
Press
Lunges
Dips
Bird Dog
10 Minutes Cardio

So that's the plan, this week will be week three of hitting the gym with the routine and I'm already seeing progress all over the board, which makes me really happy and encourages me to go back. There is no doubt about it, tracking things and having a plan make me way more likely to stick to this! Later this week I'll go over some of my resources and also talk about the diet I'm following and what's hard, what's easy.