the difference between those who succeed in making positive changes and those who fail or drop out?

What makes the difference? Setting goals, goals increase your motivation.

Everybody, when you have goals, you can actually see progress and setting goals makes you more efficient in achieving that level of fitness and, and good health that we’re all working for. If you make a decision to start to get fit and healthier just by making that decision, you’ll probably start eating better. Perhaps you’ll start to lose weight. But if you wanna ensure success, long term success goal setting is the magic potion and that is your anchor point. Medical news for seniors for today.

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I guess that bit of medical news for seniors is, is our queue to start talking about goal setting for your personal quest to stay fit and healthy, live that long life. Over the next several episodes, we’re going to be focusing on on each of the the seven elements of the anchor point disease, fighting and fitness model. But before we, we really get into that, I want us to kind of work together here and set some general overall goals, this entire health journey that we’re all getting ready to embark upon. I think we can all agree as we start this, that our gigantic overall goal as we put this anchor point down

is to first and foremost strengthen our faith and to get healthy and to live long active and healthy life.

Everybody agree with that? Okay, so that’s our major overall goal. Simple as that.

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Let’s think about what could be some smaller measurable goals that we can all set for ourselves so that we can track our progress and feel great when we achieve those smaller goals. For instance, how far right now can you comfortably run or, or walk? How far can you go with that right now? Why not set a goal that in the next six months you want to increase that by some percentage? For some of you, it may be just going out there and starting to walk or run every day. And of course you can adjust your goal upward or, or downward is as you begin to take an inventory of, of where you are right now, what are some other measurable goals we might wanna look at?

What’s your waste measurement right now?

How much do you wanna reduce that in the next six months? What’s your current weight?

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What do you want your weight to be in in the next six months?

Your resting heart rate is sometimes used as a, as a measure of overall fitness. Lower is better. And then we need to think about this as we’re setting these goals. This is important everybody, as you start to set goals and as you begin your fitness journey, your physician needs to be involved in this goal setting process. At our age, we don’t wanna start any kind of fitness program without involving our doctor. Your doctor knows your health and fitness status right now and they can help in suggesting what might be reasonable and attainable goals. Your physician, they can also help you determine what kind of exercises you can safely do and also which kind might harm you in some way. A lot of folks our age, we have bone and joint issues.

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So those issues, they have to be taken into consideration when starting any kind of an exercise program. So please everybody talk to your doctor before starting your fitness exercises and before any kind of diet or or food changes that you plan to make your doctor needs to be involved before setting your goals, before determining specifically what type of heart and strength training that you want to perform the exercise and, and then the diet elements of our model are where you need medical consultation Before getting started, if you’re already doing some kind of fitness program, keep your physician in the loop. Oh, and you don’t have a physician right now, please don’t tell me that Everyone, especially us baby boomers,

we need a primary care physician to manage our health.

And if you don’t have a regular physician who you see at, at least yearly, that’s a problem.

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