Fitness Tips - Top 5 Popular Fitness Myths

Kalev Personal Training Tip: Top 5 popular fitness myths - Beginner training tips

#5 - Lifting weights will make you bulky. When you see the big guys walking around the gym what exercises are they doing? Bench press, squats, shoulder press, pull downs and other compound and isolated muscle specific exercises. The reason they are big is not because they choose to do these exercises it’s because they have good diets, exercise consistently for many years and train specifically to gain muscle. Will this happen to women? Probably not… Women produce 20 times less testosterone than men and generally have diets that aren’t catered to muscle growth.

#4 - If you do cardio you won’t be able to gain muscle. Cardio burns both carbohydrates and fat for energy while muscle is made out of protein. It will be harder to build a lot of muscle if you are doing cardio everyday but not impossible. As long as diet has enough calories for your body to build new muscle and your workouts are intense enough, you will gain muscle.

#3 - If you look fit you must know a lot about fitness. Some people are blessed with bodies that look fit no matter what they do. Just because they are in the gym it doesn’t mean they know anything about fitness.

#2 - Dead lifts and squats are dangerous. These are two of the most functional exercises in the fitness arsenal, they both work a large number of muscle groups and will help build new muscle. Yes, many people injure themselves doing squats and dead lifts but this is because they use improper form or push themselves beyond their physical capabilities. There is nothing inherently dangerous about these exercises.

#1 - Doing crunches will give you a flat stomach. The only way to get a flat stomach is to lose body fat through cardio and diet. Crunches will help tone the muscle underneath the body fat but you won’t see results from crunches until the fat is gone.

By Kalev Personal Trainer - Eric Walker

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