Question

You have decided that you are ready to start a fitness program. Why is it important to set short-term and long-term goals?

How will you keep track of your progress toward reaching your goals? Why is it important to reflect on your progress?

Answer 1

this is a little late, but for the people who are just now doing the question the answer is

Step-by-step explanation:

it is important to set short-term and long-term goals cause certain exercises can be dangerous if you set it as a long term goal. But an exercise such as jogging, really has no down downside if you set it as a long term goal.

Answer 2

Setting short-term and long-term goals is very important to stay on track and motivated to improve fitness levels. You can keep track of your progress by weighing yourself every day to track weight loss, and by steadily increasing the difficulty of the exercises to track your strength improvement. It is very important to reflect on progress, so you can evaluate what you need to do in the future to remain on track, as well as seeing how much you've improved.