Exercise: Know your goals and reasoning

Exercise : Know your goals and reasoning
Training and types of exercise advised by professionals depends substantially on your goals and reasoning. It is much different training a competitive athlete correctly than it is others and some of the ways are completely opposite each other ! Furthermore, if you are a woman between 20-45 who wants to regain lost energy, get to and maintain a healthier weight, reduce stress , handle life, work, and keeping up with kids , while feeling better and having a better attitude your training and the exercises you do should be quite different than if you are an elderly man who wants to build immunity and prevent injury that may accompany a disorder such as frail bones, is loosing ability to and wants to continue activities of daily living, remain independent etc..
So I advise people to spend sometime thinking and writing down what they are in it for . And what they most need out of it to begin with . Or even if you already have begun .
Questions to help you evaluate this but, please do not let these push out what you'd write had I not provided them .
1.) Are you wanting to prepare and condition for a particular sport or activity such as , skiing , rock climbing , tennis , a long bike ride or to bike back and forth to work daily , a hula hoop competition etc ?
2.) Are you wanting better health ? Have an existing diagnosed ailment ? undiagnosed ailments like headaches, gas, frequent colds, joint pain etc?
3.) Are you wanting to improve your mental and emotional health ? Reduce stress, be more relaxed? calmer? improve attention span and ability ? improve memory ? handle extremes of emotion- depression, too much sadness, anger, frustration, confusion , anxiety and so on ?
4.) Are you looking to prevent future physical injury and illness? boost immune system and thus resistance to disease, colds, flu's, or organ failure, deterioration? Decrease chances of falling , breaking bones, sprains, knee failure, bruising , etc?
5.) Are you looking for improved endurance? Being able to climb stairs again or faster? walk longer ? be able to run again or farther?except a more physically demanding job? keep up with your children? or babysit energy filled grandchildren , etc.?
6.) Alleviate physical pain ?
7.) Improve coordination ? balance? respiratory endurance? sexual endurance?cardiovascular endurance? muscle strength ? flexibility ? etc.. and why ?
9.) other?
I think you should get as specific as you can rather than just know and say" prevent injury" ,know what you are most concerned about and your condition.If you need help figuring out what your goals in exercise and training are, as a fitness trainer I can help you figure them out .
There's a number of reasons I recommend doing this some include , getting a proper individualized exercise program in place and knowing what training will help you and not help you achieve your goals, it is a step to empowerment and may encourage you with physical exercise and may in part encourage you to enjoy taking further steps to achieve your goal(s) for example : goal of memory improvement - doing word search's as well , If you write them down you can more easily see in the future progresses rather than focusing on say only losing 4 lbs so far you may realize you also feel less stressed and have better concentration and improved energy which are also priorities for you .
Questions/comments are welcome.
Be well !