Lets answer some of the most common myths in the fitness world.
There are many myths for training out there.
Most of which are for women and weight loss.
This small blog post will highlight the most common.
1. Heavy Training for Women will bulk muscle.
Training heavy weights will build and tone the muscles. Womens testosterone levels are a lot lower than men's, so the bulking will not happen unless eat a significant amount of food.
2. Cardio will make you lose weight.
By doing weight training, you are burning off your glycogen stores to depletion at a greater rate than doing cardio (treadmill for example).
You are tearing the muscle, so after training your body will repair the muscles you have exhausted. This will result in burning more Kcals.
At a resting state, the body will burn more Kcals in a person with a higher % of muscle.
3. Doing sit-ups alone will get you a six pack.
This is probably one of the most common. Even if you did 100 sit-ups a day alone, you will not gain the six pack you crave. Your body fat % will need to be lowered for a start for the muscles to be on show. The entire trunk of the Core must be worked to gain the ideal look. This involves lower back, obliques and hip flexors.
4. Not eating very much each day will make me lose weight.
Again this is a very common myth. I would never recommend any of my clients to eat little, around 1600+ Kcals per day is needed. It's more what you eat and when you eat that's the important factor, rather than not eating enough.
Your main goal should be targeted towards building muscle for weightloss, which again is explained in point 2.
5. Supplements for weightloss. I hear more and more, people going towards supplements (mainly shakes) as the answer to weightloss. Most shakes out there have a high level in sugar in each. This for starters should ring alarm bells. There is nothing in a supplement shake that the body cannot gain by eating food. All they are is a quick fix. A supplement is also something over a long period of time you'll struggle to maintain. Suddenly entering yoyo dieting is even worse than when you started.
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