The most important step in any endeavor, and the step that most skip right over, is defining your goal(s) for success.
The dictionary definition of success is:
Success : (n) The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted
The important question here is, “What is your definition of success”.
Let’s use your a typical client as an example. They come to see you, as a personal trainer, in order to reach a goal. In this example their goal is to lose weight. OK, sounds like a goal to me….Or is it?
Would you start designing a training program based on the incredibly vague goal of “wanting to lose weight”. If that’s the case you may as well run them on the treadmill for a while, put them on the scale to see that they lost 1/4 of a pound and claim it a success.
Hey, they “lost weight” didn’t they?
Of course you wouldn’t do that. You would ask the client a series of questions to determine a much more specific goal:
– How much weight do you want to lose?
– By when do want to lose this weight?
– What are you willing to...