LEADING PROGRESS

ryan3478
May 13
1 min read

Something I hear often is the desire to get better abs. Other goals are to gain size on certain muscle groups or perhaps run a distance under a specific time or even get on a bodybuilding stage. These are all great goals, but they are the goals to initially focus on.

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Initially, the goals that should be focused on is consistency in the areas required to achieve said goal. These are called the leading indicators.

These goals are what produce the progress to achieve the, you guessed it, the lagging indicator goals.

Examples of leading indicator goals could be hitting nutrition accurately daily, hitting gym consistently and progressing on lifts, getting weekly miles in or daily steps. It’s not hard to connect how hitting a home run in these leading indicators makes the big goals happen.

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Double down and focus on the front end goals and the results will happen, regardless of how motivated we are for the final outcome. Can’t get to the finish line without the journey through the course.