10 Fitness Myths That Should Be Dead By Now!

Happy Monday Everyone. 

Hope you are all having a great long weekend. It was lovely seeing new and old faces on the Peak walk on Saturday morning. The next date to put in your calendar will be Saturday 6th March. We will confirm the walk venue closer to the time. All welcome 🙂 

We will also be running a nutrition talk at the studio – back to basics, on Wednesday 17th March, looking at a 6pm start. More information to come on this. If you are interested in attending, and have some particular topics you would like covered, please feel free to email us. 

Now, on to today’s topic, 10 Fitness Myths to be aware of this year.

1 – Crunches and sit ups give you abs 

You already have abs. For most they are just hidden away under a shield. Drop some body fat and you will see that washboard. 

2 – Eating little and often will boost the metabolism and burn fat 

Eat once, twice, five times. It doesn’t really matter, it’s a case of do what works for you. 

3 – Lifting heavy weights will make you big and bulky 

Eating all the donuts will make you big and bulky. 

4 – Artificial sweeteners are safe 

Truth is that it is very difficult to causate. As in artificial sweeteners caused X But  we can definitely correlate. There is plenty of correlation that artificial sweeteners won’t do you any favours. 

5 – Breakfast is the most important meal of the day 

This is kinda true. The myth is that it needs to be eaten in the morning. You can have your first meal (breaking the fast) at 1pm and there’s nothing to say that breakfast can’t be a full roast dinner.

6 – Deadlifting is bad for your back 

Nope. The way you deadlift is bad for your back. Deadlifting done correctly is probably the best exercise you can do for your back. Done wrong and you may well be in some pain.  Do yourself a favour and get at least one or two PT sessions to get your technique dialled in. 

7 – If you’re not sore the following day, you didn’t train hard enough 

Soreness can be a result of doing a new exercise or protocol.  Being sore doesn’t mean progress. Improving a metric is a sign of progress.

8 – More is better 

As I like to say ‘more isn’t better, better is better’ 

9 – If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it 

The truth is you may be dysfunctional but not broken. If this is the case then it’s a matter of time before the camel goes for the straw. Address it before it’s a problem = Functional Movement Screen anyone? 

10 – Pilates will make you long and lean 

I’m not digging at Pilates here, I’m digging at the marketing. Truth is, you can’t change the attachment site of a muscle – that’s determined by your skeleton. You can do all the Pilates classes in the world but you will not elongate a muscle. 

That said Pilates is great for a number of other reasons.

There you have it. If you have any you can add, please let us know. 

Paul “better is better” and Krystie “yum, roast for breakfast” Miller