It is true that without a destination, no journey can ever be completed. Without targets, any activity is vainly done. This is especially true when it comes to body building. A body builder without goals is just like a ship straddled in the very middle of an ocean without a compass and can only drift away without any sense of direction. A body builder cannot just flow with the current, rather he or she must attach some clear objectives to the body building program. Muscles don\'t develop by accident by precise and objective stimulation.

Without goals, many a body builders attend gym sessions for years and yet look just the same way they did at the very start. Without a target your shot will hit nothing in the gym. Why? Because you will just hover here and there trying out things without being consistent to one exercise long enough for it to bear yields in muscle mass. The beginning point of a body building program must be to identify both long term and short term goals that will be pursued with determined exercises. The type of exercises chosen, the duration of each workout session and the length of a training program as well as the diet program adopted must be determined by the goals of a program.

Serious beginners actually go as far as writing down the specific pounds they want to weigh, the measurements of their chest, waist, calves, forearms, thighs, forearms etc, that he or she will achieve after a particular length in the gym. Such a beginner will therefore pursue a focused program laden with only those exercises that will help achieve those targets. An even better, he or she will be able to determine achievements of the program at any time during the program. By knowing whether the program is working or not, the body builder can adjust the workouts or the diet accordingly solely for the achievement of the predetermined goals.

Fat loss or weight gain objectives are only successful if particular goals, both long term and short term, are identified beforehand and then the entire program is focused towards attaining those objectives. The disadvantage of setting goals is that sometimes the goals seem to far away from the immediate circumstances of the body builder such that they may cause discouragement. You can imagine having the goal of winning the Mr. Olympics body building title while at that time you are the skinniest guy in the entire gym. But that doesn\'t mean that you should relent your efforts in the gym just because the goal seems so faraway.

What you should rather do, is to identify some short term goals like adding 2 pounds of weight this month, building a centimeter of muscle on you biceps in the next four months or something like that. Short time goals should have a lifespan of six to twelve weeks after which the achievement accumulated is tallied. By achieving the short term goals, a body builder can continually renew his or her motivation towards the long term goal. In fact, the achievements of short term goals add up to the long term goal by and by.

Success in body building is solely dependent on the identification and pursuit of precise goals.