Exercise, too, has its myths and most gyms in Washington, DC are promulgating these as Fitness Truths. Before you fall into the hands of these exercise fallacies, it is but essential that you meet them.
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Washington, DC Gyms Myth: Light Weights Can Tone Your Muscles
Lifting light weights is just as good as not doing anything at all. They can neither tone your muscles or help you lose the fat. What lifting light weights can do is help you build stamina.
Heavy weights that kick your butt are those that can help you grow muscles and tone them. Since these exercises can build muscles, they are best to be included in your fat loss routine. The leaner your body is (more muscles, less fat), the higher your base metabolic rate is. Once you’ve achieved this, you can get the body you want in less time than you can (if you even can!) with carrying light dumbbells.
Washington, DC Gyms Myth: Crunches Will Give You Fantabulous Abs!
Actually, anybody can get great abdominals. The key to it is to lose the fat that covers the wonderful six-pack hidden beneath it.
Crunches are part of isolation exercises that have nothing to do with burning the fat! Your washboard abs will come out of its shell naturally once you’ve ridden your body tons of fat which is only possible through the interval training and weight lifting tandem.
Washington, DC Gyms Myth: Aerobics is the Key Exercise to Fat Loss
Outright, NO. The two myths above have already mentioned how weight and interval training are the keys to busting the fat effectively. These two are the wonder twins in fat loss and weight management, and not aerobic exercises.
Here are some evidences that an Australian paper concluded:
Group 1
• 40 minutes of steady state aerobics (TWICE as much exercise)
• 3 days per week
• In 15 weeks, they GAINED an average of 1lbs of fat
Group 2
• 20 minutes of high intensity interval training (at week one they did only 5 minutes)
• 3 days per week
• In 15 weeks, they lost an average of 5.5lbs of fat
Evidently in this research, the high-intensity interval training group lost the fat in half the time that the Aero group did their workout (20 mins vs 40mins). And the Aero team even gained fat!
Washington, DC Gyms Myth: The Scale Mentality
Trainers are born with weighing scales on their hands. I have nothing against weighing scales, but if your fitness coach treats it like it’s the only tool capable of measuring and providing results… then he/she can easily run off with your dollar!
Fat calipers must be used to objectively quantify if you really lost the fat. Say, in weight training, you will notice that the scales aren’t going up, but your tops are turning into shift dresses, and your pants getting baggy each week. That’s because you gain more muscle mass! More muscle mass means you heighten your BMR, hence, more calories are burned!
Washington, DC Gyms Myth: Eat less, exercise more
Most trainers will recommend that you starve to death while you run your heart and lungs out. This is very unhealthy when in fact you need to fuel your body to sustain any activity, especially strenuous ones.
If there was one surprising thing I did when I lost weight, it was to eat more, and exercise less! Truth is, you can beat the fat out of your body if you right and do the correct exercises.
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