Need some help with a New Year Resolution? Or want a new fitness target?
Improving in sport is all about goals and targets; you won’t get better without them that’s for sure so we’ve put together a list of some below to help you get started!
Some of them are lifestyle changes and others are targets that you will need to train for.
When setting your target here’s three tips: Firstly, make sure your goals are measurable. Secondly, it needs to be a stretch but must be achievable. Thirdly, it must be fun and enjoyable!
Fitness and Health Targets for Your 2015
- Run 20 miles every week
- Reach 10 Pull Ups in one go
- Double your highest running race distance
- Choose an event that will put you out of your comfort zone in 2015
- Learn a new sport
- Run a muddy race on your own
- Do a Parkrun (free 5km timed event in your local park)
- Cycle 35km in an hour
- Swim a mile in 30 mins
- Follow a training plan to get into shape - start here
- For every run you do complete 20 Burpees and 20 Press Ups throughout
- Complete 50 Press Ups in one go
- Get a sub 40min 10km time
- Don’t eat chocolate for the whole of February (once you’ve eaten your Christmas stash)
- Bench Press your own weight
- Complete an Ultra Marathon
- Do the Muddy Race January Challenge
- Get over an obstacle wall on your own
- Complete one race a month throughout 2015 - start here
- Choose a charity and set a fund raising target
- Complete the rope climb at Spartan Race
- Try a CrossFit class - find one here
- Cancel the gym membership and train outside instead
- Get a friend into a muddy race
- Swim 5km in one go - start here
- Run once a week in your lunch break
- Complete a Spartan Race without any burpee penalties
- Complete a monkey bar section at an obstacle race - learn here
- Reduce your waistline by 2 inches
- Run twice a week
- Run a half marathon
- Keep a training journal
- Reduce your alcohol intake by a set limit
- Do every Tough Mudder in 2015
- Do an obstacle race abroad
- Reduce takeaways to once a month
- Do Interval Training once a week
- Run a hill session at least once a month
- Get a Muddy Race medal by recording at least 50km of mud miles - build your profile here
- Aim to get 8 hours sleep at least 3 times a week and after hard workouts
- Complete a Sprint Triathlon in 1hr 10min
- Fill one medal holder with achievements in 2015
- Run a marathon
- Enter an organised event once a month throughout 2015
- Remove sugar from hot drinks
- Go to the Nordics and do an obstacle race - starting with Toughest in Sweden
- Apply for World’s Toughest Mudder
- Complete 4 laps of the Nuts Challenge
- Get a sub 35min 10km time
- Reach 100 Press Ups in one minute
- Choose one of our recommend Toughest Events to train for
- Do a handstand press up
- Run Tough Guy in January topless
- Run with a weighed vest once a week
- Reach 30 pull ups in one go
- Complete this video
- Run a marathon in under three hours
- Cycle 100miles in 6 hours
- Qualify for the World’s Obstacle Course Racing Championships in the US
- Join Team Muddy Race
- Complete a 24 hour endurance race
- Buy a sandbag and use it in your training
So what’s your target going to be? Make sure you get your training plan right and your target will be achievable.