The Top Myths About Weight Loss and Exercise

by editor on January 29, 2016

When you’re trying to do your best with weight loss and exercise, the last thing you want is to fall victim to one of the common myths that are always circulating about these topics. While many of them don’t appear to make any sense, and you wonder why you believed them in the first place, there are others that can appear to be quite logical, and it might be difficult to accept that they aren’t actually true.

The key to being able to dodge some of the top myths about weight loss and exercise is to do what you can to learn about them and remember what you’ve learned. Pay attention to what has turned out to be true and what is not.

The following are some of the top weight loss and exercise myths that are currently in circulation:

All you need to lose weight is exercise – though exercise is certainly a good part of a complete weight loss strategy, a growing number of studies are showing that it may not be enough just to be physically active if you continue on with all the other lifestyle habits you’ve been maintaining and that led to your weight gain in the first place. Exercise is a vital part of weight loss for most people, but without also making appropriate changes to your diet, it may not be enough.

You can’t be fit if you’re overweight – if you are regularly physically active, regardless of your weight, it is possible for you to be fit. This means that you eat well and work out regularly to the point when you have a reduced risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, certain cancers, and even depression and anxiety. A rapidly growing body of evidence is showing that you can be metabolically healthy even if you are overweight, provided you keep up a regular activity level.

Only resistance training leads to weight loss – many people feel that the only way a workout will bring on weight loss is if you target the right groups of muscles. This is what has led people to rely nearly exclusively on completing sit-ups, crunches, push-ups and squats. While this does help to build muscle, which naturally helps the body to burn through more calories, cardio workouts are actually the ones that burn the most calories per exercise. Therefore, it’s a good idea to mix them up so that you do a few of each every week.

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