Assignment: Personal Fitness Plan

Develop a personal fitness plan that YOU would implement and adhere to. Start out by looking at the goals you wrote for yourself and devise a plan of action to achieve those goals. Address just your short-term goals at first. Choose activities that are appropriate and then work out the specifics using the FITT principles. Use suggestions from the book, class and lecture notes to help with specifics.

Your initial plan should be 4 weeks long. Your plan should then include ways of overloading (progressing) when you reach your short-term goals and/or you appear to have reached a plateau in progress. An excel spreadsheet or a table are easy ways to format your actual workout by day and week. You could then use an outline format to detail how you would overload once goals are reached or to describe other aspects of your plan (diet, sleep, etc.) if included.

A. Once goal is reached overload by:

1. increasing intensity (run 3 miles at faster pace) 2 days/week
2. increasing distance (run 3.5 miles at easy pace) 3 days/week

B. stretch after each run to promote recovery and flexibility