Training goals can be set by arbitrary selection or by using fitness testing to identify lagging areas.

“Way number one is to just pick something. Arbitrarily decide I'm going to run a 5K. Or I've done that before, and I want to improve it by 10 seconds. I want to lose 10 pounds. You can just pick one. That's great. Another way is to run through that fitness testing protocol we described a few episodes before. And if you do that, you can see which of these areas that maybe you have the largest lagging in. Or what is the most severe performance anchor is how we refer to it. And then choose that as your primary goal.”