Being that we are going to be talking nutrition on Saturday, now seems like as good of time as any to talk about having a goal. Goals are important for several reasons, but as it applies to your nutrition, your goal will serve as direction. Based on your goal we will devise the best course possible to get you there.

Your goal must have certain qualities about it though. For our purposes, your goal needs to be clear, concise, measurable, and attainable. Without all of these qualities, you will be guaranteeing yourself failure before beginning because you won't have a clear idea of what success is.

As for the attainable part, that is actually two-fold. First, be realistic with yourself and don't set the bar too high, too fast. An example of this would be someone setting their sites on being the 2009 CrossFit Games Champ when they can't do pull-ups on their own yet. Second, don't have conflicting goals. You can't get "heyuge!" and have the abs of an Abercrombie model at the same time. Decide which one is more important to you and go for it!