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Busting the Myths of Fitness to Lose Weight
There are lots of fitness myths that believe are true that aren’t really true. Some are just harmless
misstatements, but some can be dangerous to people who are just starting out on a fitness plan. Do you know which
myths are true and which are false? Busting the myths of fitness is essential to finding an effective way to lose
weight. Make sure that you learn as much as you can about fitness before starting out on a new fitness routine to
make sure that you don’t get hurt and to make sure that you will stay motivated to make real changes in your life
and start to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle.
One fitness myth that is widely believed by fitness beginners is that running or fast walking on a treadmill is
less stressful on the joints than walking or running outside on the sidewalk or street. This myth is not true.
Running or fast walking puts the same amount of stress on the joints no matter what surface you are running or fast
walking on. That’s why it’s important to have high quality running or walking shoes when starting to run or speed
walk to lose weight. When staring a walking or running fitness routine start out running or walking a short
distance and slowly build up the distance to make sure that your joints don’t get damaged.
Another fitness myth is that doing abdominal crunches will help people lose belly fat. The truth is that there is
no such thing as spot reduction. It’s not possible to lose weight or fat in one particular body area. The only way
to lose fat is to burn more calories than you eat and doing abdominal crunches will strengthen the abdominal
muscles but will not reduce belly fat. Pilates can help people lose weight and look like they have lost belly fat
because Pilates exercises build lean muscle and burns calories but do not reduce belly fat.
One of the biggest myths in fitness is that if an activity doesn’t make you sweat, it’s not a good workout.
Strenuous cardio workouts will usually make you sweat, but some activities can be great exercises without making
you sweat. Pilates, yoga, and other activities that emphasis whole body fitness may not make you break a sweat, but
are still helping you get fit and burn calories. Just because that two mile run didn’t make you sweat doesn’t mean
it didn’t burn calories. Lack of sweating can also make people think that they need to step up their fitness
routine in order to get a good workout, which can lead people to overdo their exercise and end up injured.
One of the most dangerous fitness myths is the myth of “no pain, no gain”. If an activity is hurting you or causing
physical pain, you should stop immediately, not keep pushing yourself. Pain is the body’s way of telling you that
something is wrong, and should not be ignored. Many people end up damaged or hurt because they refuse to stop
exercising when their bodies tell them to stop because they believe the “no pain, no gain” fitness myth.
Another myth that deals with sweating says that if an activity makes you sweat, you’re not fit enough. That is
completely wrong. Sweating is the body’s cooling mechanism, and when you sweat it just means that your body is hot,
it is not an indication of fitness or lack of fitness. Many people mistakenly believe that if they sweat during a
particular exercise that exercise is too advanced for them, which is not true. Often people are fit even when they
think they aren’t and can do much more exercise than they normally do.
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