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Developing Goal Objectives

For the assignment due lab 5, you will need to develop a short-term goal for two or three components of health and fitness as it relates to your health and fitness. The components to consider are: aerobic fitness, such as endurance; muscular strength and/or muscular endurance; flexibility; body composition; nutrition; back health; stress; and health behaviors, like trying to cut down on smoking. 

Develop two or three short-term goals using the S.M.A.R.T. format:

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Developing goal objectives/statements

A short-term goal may seem rather specific. For example, you may have a short-term goal of increasing your aerobic fitness by jogging three days a week. In the S.M.A.R.T. format, it may look like this: Increase aerobic fitness by jogging for 30 minutes 3 days a week. I will maintain this routine through XX/XX.

In developing goal objective statements, you will further break down the short-term goal into weekly objectives. In looking at the short-term goal above, in order for you to find 30 minutes to accomplish your jogging goal, you may first have to get up 30 minutes earlier.  In order to that, you may have to go to bed 30 minutes earlier. Jogging for 30 minutes may be too much time to start with so starting with 10 minutes, and increasing the time by 10 minutes a week, may be a better way to help you reach your goal.

Once you really look at what you have to do in order to reach your short-term goal, developing three goal objective statements to help you reach your goal will be easy.

Your objective statements should be short and precise. For the example above, three statements may be: 1) Go to bed at 11:30 instead of midnight; 2) get up at 7:30 instead of 8; 3) jog for 10 minutes, from 8:00 to 8:10.

ASSIGNMENT: In the space provided below, please record you short-term goals and develop six goal objective statements with a minimum of two for each short-term goal. Starting with lab 5, you will also need to start one of the objective statements and record you progress on the record sheets provided.

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