THE 10 BIGGEST FITNESS LIES EVER

Contents

Introduction

Fitness Lie Number 1

You Can TONE

Fitness Lie Number 2

You Can Spot Reduce

Fitness Lie Number 3

Cardio Is For Fat Burning, Weight Training Is For Muscle Building

Fitness Lie Number 4

Women Should Lift Lighter Weights In The Higher Repetition Range

Fitness Lie Number 5

Men Should Expect Their Level Of Sexual Fitness To Fade With Time

Fitness Lie Number 6

Hard Earned Muscle Will Eventually Turn To Fat If You Stop Using It

Fitness Lie Number 7

You Need To Drink Multiple Protein Shakes Per Day To Build Muscle

Fitness Lie Number 8

Protein Shakes Will Make You Bulky

Fitness Lie Number 9

Supplements Will Significantly Boost Your Metabolism

Fitness Lie Number 10

Cardio Is A Great Way To Get Thinner

Bonus Fitness Lie

Exercising Daily Is Optimal

Conclusion

Introduction

ARE you looking to get into the best shape of your life? Is your goal to drop 10-15 pounds? Or, perhaps you would like to add 10-15 pounds of lean muscle mass?

Whatever your goal may be, before you dive in, it is important to first come to grips with the biggest lies in the fitness industry. Otherwise you may end up not only wasting your valuable time, but perhaps even doing damage to your long term health.

The sad fact of the matter is that not everyone has your best interests at heart.

This is a consequence of the simple reality that professionals in the fitness industry – be they gym owner’s, personal trainers, or supplement company representatives – all  make their living off people who are looking to get fit.

If everyone was able to reach the pinnacle of health and fitness, those who make their living helping them reach that goal wouldn’t be earning quite as much money as they currently are. Sure, you’ll have to maintain yourself by continuing to go the gym, seeing a personal trainer from time to time, and utilizing a few key supplements that help you  keep your body from deteriorating. But you wouldn’t need to invest anywhere near the time and effort you would if you were trying to develop your body.

Maintaining yourself is far easier than getting fit in the first place. It’s a dirty little secret that most people in the fitness industry don’t want you to know. After all, it’s not in their best interest for you to be at the top of your game.

They want to sell you on more quick-fix products, sell you on daily personal training sessions, or pricey gym memberships and extras such as group fitness classes.

And while some of these extras really are to your benefit, some aren’t. So it is YOU who is responsible for making sure that your money is well invested.

It is YOU that has to do the background check on your trainer to ensure they have many success stories to their name and that they clearly  do have your best interest in mind. It’s up to YOU to look into any supplement you take and make sure there is research backing its claims of effectiveness and that a number of people before you have found that the product does indeed help them achieve the claimed benefits of taking the supplement.

This may seem like common sense, but all too often people will assume that everything they are being told about how to achieve their desired fitness goals is the truth when it simply is not.

It is very easy to become yet another victim to one or more of the major fitness lies.

Fortunately, I’m here to help.

I’m going to reveal to you the top 10 biggest fitness lies in the industry. This way, you simply won’t fall prey to them because you will know better.

Some of the information that I will present to you will run counter to everything that you believe in – everything that you know to this point. You are going to feel the urge to fight it. To reject the information.

Try to avoid this. If you truly want to experience optimal progress from your workout and nutrition program, you absolutely must know these lies inside out – and then side-step them every chance you get.

So with this said, let’s move forward and present the top 10 fitness lies you must know.

1

Fitness Lie Number 1:

You Can TONE

TONING. You might not see that fitness professional roll their eyes when you bring up the subject of toning with them, but believe me, they are thinking about it!

That is because when someone mentions the word “tone” it is usually without any clear understanding of what it might mean.

This common term, usually used when speaking to the female audience basically implies seeing more muscle definition. But with the exception of a small number of women who may be looking to compete in professional fitness or bodybuilding (more on this later) a bulky body is highly undesirable. So most women who use the expression “toning” do so without realizing they are asking for more muscle definition.

But make no mistake, toning is all about giving your physique that feminine look where some muscle definition is seen, so you look fit, but at the same time you’re still exhibiting curves in all the right places.

When someone says “I want to get toned”, this is usually the image they have in mind, whether they fully understand the nature of their request.

So toned is really nothing more than lowered body fat percentage.

Here’s a little secret.  Everyone – even you, right now, has great muscle tone. The only problem? You may have a layer of undesirable fat covering that muscle tone, so you don’t see it.

So the real secret to getting “toned” is actually just to lose weight.

Next time you see a program that promises to help get you toned in no time, realize this is a weight loss program you are going on. Therefore, if the program does not come with a solid nutrition plan (a key element for any weight loss program), chances are it’s not going to be delivering the results that you want to be seeing any time soon.

Don’t fall for the toned gimmick. There’s either muscle building or fat loss. In most cases, it’s fat loss you need to get toned (apart from the few that are very naturally thin, in which case, muscle building is what will be needed).