It’s ok. You don’t always have to know what you want. In which case it can be helpful to ask yourself “what is it that I don’t want?” Take the opposite approach instead of trying to search for the ultimate answer.
Like me for example. I don’t always know what I want to focus on with my training. At times nothing really inspires me enough to make me dive head first into a challenge or a training program.
But when we flip the question things change:
I don’t want to train, look or eat purely for aesthetics. I don’t want to be sore and injured. I don’t want to count calories or worry about having few beers on the weekend. I don’t want to do weights for more than four days a week or more than 60 minutes at a time.
Just by making a list of “don’t wants” I’ve eliminated quite a few things. Even if I don’t know exactly what I want to train for, I’ve cleared the picture quite a bit.
Sometimes it’s ok to not have specific goals. Just train to keep the training base that you’ve created. When a new goal that lights that fire reveals itself you’re ready to go. And trust me, it’ll happen.
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Maybe your goal for this year is to not gain any fat.
Losing fat and not gaining fat share a lot of the same habits.