6 Fitness Myths

Myths abide about just about anything and fitness and exercise is one of them.

It’s safe to say when a large enough group of people believe in something, that thing usually becomes the truth even when that is not the case at all.

Well, here are the more common fitness myths:

* Muscle will turn into fat. Fat cannot turn into muscle and muscle cannot turn into fat. However, you can burn fat and build muscle. Someone who stops going to the gym will shrink in size as each muscle cell becomes thinner. They will only become fat if they eat the same amount of food, and the excess calories get converted to fat and are then stored in fat cells.

       * Doing lots of crunches will give you a toned midsection. If you're working out, one thing that you will definitely want is a toned midsection, whether it be a ripped six-pack for guys or a flat stomach for girls. Doing lots of crunches do not burn fat off your stomach. If anything, you might actually see a slight increase in your waistline due to the muscles growing underneath the fat.

 

*Lifting weights will make girls big. This is one very common myth that almost all of my girl-friends believe in. This is not true because firstly, the physical makeup of women makes it almost impossible to be muscular. Guys have a lot more testosterone (male muscle building hormone) than girls, and even so, there are many guys who hit the gym yet do not even look remotely possible as having visited the gym before.

*Eating fat makes you fat. A lot of people consume too little fat because they are afraid it will make them fat. Fat is actually very important in maintaing a balanced diet. It is excess calories that makes you fat. Anything that causes large amounts of insulin to be released into your blood makes you fat too, like donuts, ice cream and soda.

Though there are several more, here are the more common ones…but now that they are exposed, it’s safe to say attaining fitness should be much easier now…right?

 

To Health.

 

Aje

 

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