# Fitness goals that tell you if you are on pace

A goal is only useful if you know whether you will make it. Tie a goal to a metric, set a target and a date, and the goal card shows your smoothed current level, the change you need per week, the change you are actually making over the last two weeks, and a projected date. When a goal falls behind, the week plan adds one concrete adjustment.

## How it works

1. **Pick a metric and a target.** Weight, waist, pull-ups, a 5K time, resting heart rate or anything else you track.
2. **Set a date.** Pace needs a deadline: the card then shows the rate per week you need.
3. **Log as usual.** Current level is a 7-day average, so daily noise does not swing the status.
4. **Follow the adjustment.** When a goal falls behind, the week plan adds one concrete change.

## Who uses it

- Weight loss: "It told me I needed 0.3 kg a week and was doing 0.1, then added steps to my plan."
- Strength: "Ten pull-ups by summer: practice days appear on my week plan."
- Health marker: "Resting heart rate down five beats this year, tracked as a goal that goes down."

## Smoothed, not noisy

Current level is a 7-day average, so one salty dinner does not make a weight goal look off track.

## Honest status

On track, behind, flat or achieved, with the numbers that decided it.

## The plan adapts

A weight goal that is behind adds steps and on-plan meals to the week; a strength goal adds practice days.

## Questions

### What goals can I set?

Any metric with a number: weight, waist, pull-ups, run distance, sleep, steps, resting heart rate.

### Does it work for goals that go down?

Yes. The direction is set from your start and target values, so weight loss and resting heart rate goals work the same way.

### How many goals can I have?

Up to 12 active goals. Pause or finish one to add more.

### What does 'flat' mean?

Your trend over the last two weeks has barely moved. The brief and the week plan name it so you can change something.

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