14 Top Exercise Myths
1. Fat can Turn into muscle, just like Lead can not turn into gold they are
two different chemical compounds and one can’t turn into another. So never worry
about your muscle turning into fat and unfortunately fat can’t turn into muscle
so you got either lose your fat or build your muscle or what ever you want
because one can’t be the other.
2. lifting weights doesn’t bulk women up, lifting weights does build muscle
though muscle for most people and especially women is very hard to build, what
you may be experiencing is that you have added some muscle and got some more
tone but you haven’t lost your fat yet so you have a perception that your arms
or legs are now bigger. Not saying that it isn’t impossible though for the
majority you won’t get big and bulky by lifting weights if anything it will get
you to burn fat faster than anything else.
3. Long slow Cardio in your fat burning zone does not burn more total fat
than doing high intensity interval cardio with a super high heart beat. The
higher the intensity always burns more total calories and burns a whole lot more
fat.
4. Lifting light weights will keep me leaner and help me get cut, sorry
folks lifting light weights only builds endurance, stamina, and helps develop
more capillary beds to the muscle does have it’s place in any ones training
program though it isn’t the best method or a very good method for building
muscle or keeping you lean.
5. More Exercise is better than less, not true you can get millions of
benefits by exercising just a few minutes every day or week than not exercising
at all. More exercise can produce more cortisol a stress hormone that breaks
the body down. So too much exercise can be a bad thing to muscle gain and
burning fat.
6. Exercise is only for the young and fit, this is so untrue anyone and
everyone can benefit from exercising and working out. If your 90 years old and
have never lifted a weight, weight training has been shown to make a tremendous
different in your life for the good. Making exercise great for all ages of all
shape and size.
7. Bodybuilders know more about getting big and exercise than others.
Anyone can educate themselves if any field. Bodybuilders are not necessary the
smartest and the best people to ask because many have used steroids or other
harmful chemicals that got them to look that way, so don’t listen to someone
because they look the part look at there background and education first. Good
genetics and hormones can do amazing things to some ones physique so just don’t
ask the big guy or great looking guy or girl In the gym.
8. You got to get in shape before working out with a trainer, never wait to
get great advice and information learn to train smart from the beginning so you
don’t hurt yourself and you get trained properly and get results faster than
trying to do it on your own.
9. Sit ups will get you a six pack, there is no such thing as spot reducing
so no matter how many sit ups, crunches, or abdominal exercise will ever rid
that fat from your belly. You can’t work out any area on your body and expect
lose fat from that area. There is no such thing as spot reducing so focus on
exercising the right way and don’t waist your time on doing a ton of sit ups
because they will never burn all that fat from your belly. Abdominal exercises
are important for developing strength and building your ab muscles, but they are
not the best method for losing the fat from that area.
10. Exercise needs to be at a gym, you can exercise any where and everywhere
using any kind of equipment your body weight, make exercise your friend and work
out outside or at your home.. The most important place that will get you the
best results is the place that you will exercise.
11. You need to use free weights or machines to weight train, not true your
body weight for some people is all they need or any other form of resistance
remember gravity creates force so you don’t need any fancy machine to weight
train you can use anything that adds more weight to your body or resistance to
get a good weight training workout.
12. Stretch before you warm up, you want to warm up first to heat up your
muscles so they stretch easier, you shouldn’t stretch first because your muscles
are cold and they are not as flexible. You should always warm up first and
always stretch at the end of every workout because it is more important and
helps elevate soreness and keeps you build flexibility and makes it sure you
don’t get stiff from not stretching and exercising.
13. Exercise makes you stiff, no anything makes you stiff if you don’t move
though out the day, you get more stiff from sitting down in the office more than
anything. Lifting weights does tighten your muscles so this is why it’s so
important to stretch at the end of exercising than at the beginning.
14. Pain no Gain… You don’t have to kill yourself to get millions of
benefits from exercise, sometimes light exercise is far more valuable than
killing yourself. Stressing the body too much with exercise or anything else
causing problems hormonally with your cotisol levels which helps you add more
body fat, not good.
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