The Top 6 Fitness Myths You Need To Know
1. You Have To Workout Like a Crazy Person To Lose Weight.
Consistency is the key. You don’t have to put in your best workout everyday of your life in order to achieve results. You need to consistently:
- show up to the gym
- go for a run
- take the stairs
- don’t take “months” off
- don’t even take “weeks” off
If you want to create a new you then you’ve got to get into your head that the new you is a person who exercises regularly. Exercise is just a part of your life and you find ways to exercise in new ways just to have fun (ie. hiking, swimming, mountain biking, etc). So stop worrying about showing up with your “game face” to put in a super intense workout and just make sure that you SHOW UP to workout.
Look back at your day. Do you have at least 30 minutes of exercise completed? Look back at your week. Have you worked out at least 5 days? You can do it, but you’ve got to be consistent.
2. The less you eat and the more you move (low calories eaten versus high calories burned) will make you lose weight.
First of all let’s start with squashing the myth that if you starve yourself it’ll make you skinny. If you don’t eat then your body goes into starvation mode and your metabolism all but shuts down to help save energy because you’re not eating anything.
Also, it won’t matter how much you’re moving around/exercising because you’ll scarcely have enough energy to actually raise your heart rate to a respectable level that would be necessary for fat loss.
3. You can’t ever cheat (eat naughty) if you want to lose weight.
Having cheat meals, and even cheat days (yes you get whole cheat days!) is actually good for your weight loss goals. For example, if you eat 1200 calories everyday then your body will grow accustomed to that level of calorie intake and wont attempt to utilize fat for energy but instead will adjust your base metabolic rate so that you only burn 1200 calories a day.In order to reset your metabolic rate to a higher level you’re going to have to cheat. Either a cheat meal every third day or a cheat day once a week will serve your purpose of weight loss and help keep you sane.
4. You have to take diet supplements/fat burners to really take the weight off fast.
Of course you don’t have to do this! All the marketing and advertising from the fat burner companies would have you believe something else so it’s hard to believe that there’s any way to get you to the next level and off your plateau without popping some pills.I can’t tell you enough how strong a thing your daily nutrition actually is. If you eat properly, using correct meal timing and food sources, then that’s all you need. Let me restate this, “When You Eat & What You Eat”, are all that you really need to take off the body fat. Add in some strength training and cardio/core workouts and you’ve got yourself the winning weight loss combination.
5. Lifting weights only makes you gain weight.
This is of course one of the main complaints that I hear from people in regards to lifting weights. But in actuality, lifting weights helps you to lose unwanted weight in the form of body fat.It’s very important to your weight loss goals for you to strength train. That means lifting weights. There is no better way to boost your metabolism for an entire day than to include strength training exercises in your workouts.
All physical activity falls into two categories:
Strength Training & Recreational ActivityStrength Training vs Recreational Activity
Strength Training involves repetitively lifting objects (or body weight) using the same muscle groups until you reach a point of muscle exhaustion that causes you to stop. The body’s response to such a stimulus is to get stronger than it was before.
Recreational Activity involves everything that does not fall under the above description. Recreational Activities would include sports, yoga, cycling, running, hiking, skiing, and other things of this calibre activity level.
Remember, only Strength Training can give you the upper hand in weight loss. Not Recreational Activities. I’m not saying you shouldn’t participate in Recreational Activity (I do all of the above), I’m just trying to illustrate the importance of Strength Training
6. Exercise and diet is the only way to lose weight.
Here’s a fat burning tip that you’ve probably never heard before. Being in water colder than your own body temperature (98.6 degrees) will help you lose weight as your body burns calories trying to keep warm.Even a warm 70 degree water will make your body work to stay warm inside. That 70 degree water will try to steal your heat and bring your internal 98.6 degrees down to the temperature of the liquid around it. Thus making you burn energy (stored fat) to keep warm at 98.6 degrees.Cold air will work too but not as well as water because liquids transfer heat 24 times as fast as air. So jump in the water and do some laps in the pool or lake or ocean to burn some extra fat. The colder the better so get tough and take the plunge for the sake of low body fat!
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