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Want your fitness programme to succeed? Set your own goals

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Setting your own exercise goals and pursuing them immediately, could help result in long lasting changes. Image: REUTERS/Pilar Olivare

Frank Otto
Senior Medical Communications Officer, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Effect of Goal-Setting Approaches Within a Gamification Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Economically Disadvantaged Adults at Elevated Risk for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events
Setting your own goal can be highly effective. Image: Patel et al (2021)
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