Posted on November 06, 2014 by Jenny Cromack

As a personal trainer I am constantly setting targets for my personal training clients. Often people will have one main goal they are working towards, but what happens when they achieve that goal? Most personal training clients then have new goals and exercise targets they want to work towards, but what if you have achieved your goal and don’t know what you want to do next?

We have written various blogs in the past about goal setting and exercise targets. Here are our latest two:

http://www.m8north.co.uk/blog/set-realistic-goals/

http://www.m8north.co.uk/blog/how-to-achieve-fitness-goals/

Following the Leicester Marathon I wanted to share my new goals and exercise targets. Many people I know who have recently run a marathon feel they have achieved their goal and then flounder around in no mans land for a month or two after with no clear goal to achieve. However, this wasn’t the case for me….I knew as soon as I’d finished the marathon what I wanted to work on……my goals next 3 goals are:

– Drop body fat and tone up abs.

– Improve my 10k time

– Improve my half marathon time

Running long distances as we know is not the best way to drop body fat therefore my new exercise targets and regime includes lots of interval training. Interval training is also the best way of training to improve my speed so I can kill two birds with one stone! To get faster I also need to become more efficient so I am going to spend more time working on my technique and flexibility too.

When marathon training I was running 4 times per week and only strength training twice a week. My new exercise targets mean I have changed this so I’m now doing the following in my training:

2 x German Body Composition Sessions with interval training (1 session is a treadmill HIIT session , the other a non-running HIIT session). I LOVE THIS SESSION!

2 x Running Interval Sessions

1 x Steady Run to allow my legs to recover from the HIIT sessions and keep some miles in my legs

1 x Circuit Training/HIIT Session – no running!

Watch this space for how I get on in working towards my exercise targets!