Weight training makes you SLOW and MUSCLEBOUND
No- If you perform all exercises through their full range of motion, flexibility
will increase As opposed to being sedentary-
Exercises like SQUATS, deadlifts, bench presses, and chin-ups
stretch the muscle in the bottom range of the movement. Therefore, by performing
these exercises correctly, your stretching capabilities will increase.
Strong muscles contract faster and generate more power. That’s why professional
athletes like Shaquille O’Neil or Tiger Woods do weight training: strength
training makes you FASTER!
IF YOU STOP TRAINING YOUR MUSCLES WILL TURN INTO FAT
This is like saying that gold can turn into brass. Muscle and fat are two
totally different types of tissue. What happens many times is that when people
decide to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to
inactivity (use it or lose it) and they also usually drop the diet as well.
Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is
lower due to inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression
that the subject’s muscle is being turned into fat while in reality what is
happening is that muscle is being lost and fat is being gained.
WEIGHT TRAINING TURNS FAT INTO MUSCLE
This is the equivalent of saying that you can turn any metal into
gold; don’t we wish! Muscle is long fibrous strands that run from origin to insertion- fat is globules, bunched together- one cannot become the other!
The way a body transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight training and losing fat through aerobics and diet simultaneously.
Again, muscle and fat are very different types of tissue. We cannot turn one
into the other.
WEIGHT TRAINING MAKES WOMEN BULKY AND/OR MASCULINE
NO! Due to the fact that women do not, and cannot, naturally produce as much
testosterone (one of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size)
as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass by
merely touching some weights. This can only happen if they are either genetically very well built naturally, which is rare, or they use anabolic steroids along with other drugs in order to achieve that high degree of muscularity. Believe me when I say that they do not look like that naturally OR by accident!
Women who conduct strength and conditioning training properly- and naturally- not only improve their sporting performance but can get a firm, fit and attractive looking body to be proud of!
WOMEN ONLY NEED TO DO CARDIO AND IF THEY WEIGHT TRAIN IT SHOULD ONLY BE LIGHT
First of all, if you only did cardio then muscle and fat would be burned for fuel. One needs to do weights in order to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent any loss of muscle tissue. Women that only concentrate on cardio will have a very hard time achieving the look that they want, as well as avoiding all the injury resistance properties and strength and speed increases that training can provide for sport. As far as the lifting of very light weights, this is just more nonsense. As we have discussed- muscle responds to resistance and if the resistance is too light, then there will be no reason
for the body to change!
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING TRAINING WON’T HELP YOU GET SLIMMER AS IT ADDS POUNDS OF MUSCLE AND BURNS FEW CALORIES?
Quite the opposite in fact! In one study, three months of strength training boosted the average
calorie-burning rate by an average of 7%, lost 4 pounds of fat, and
added nearly that much muscle!
Since muscle is denser than fat, the volunteers became slimmer.
Also, they burned off that fat despite a 15% increase in their calorie content!
The researchers had to encourage them to maintain their weight by eating more than they felt like
eating, otherwise they would have lost even more weight! A combination of progressive resistance training, specific cardio trianing and good nutrition will ensure you body is strong, functional, toned and fit!
WEIGHT TRAINING IS BORING
It can be! IF you go the gym without a plan, and don’t get results- REMEMBER the 6 p’s courtesy of the U.S. marine corp.
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Training will not be boring if you have a PLAN, focus on how the PROCESS of good technique, strict nutrition, not missing sessions, good sleep, rest and recovery and maintaining a positive mental outlook brings the RESULTS you want! HOW can that be BORING??
You should not have time to get bored since you have so many things to pay attention to during the process of training! And of course, the constant challenge of improving every session is anything but boring! Think of the results at the end of all the effort that you have invested in the training process!
MUSCLE IS HEAVIER THAN FAT
True-
But it is also ONE FIFTH the volumous size- simply put, it weighs the same but is five times smaller than the equivalent weight of fat! So, a body with a healthy, well developed muscle system will look physically smaller, more compact and toned than a fatter body at the same weight!
Check my facebook reports on female clients who have become significantly slimmer in a matter of months by adhering to a progressive weight resistance program coupled with good nutrition!
ARE THERE ANY OTHER MYTHS ABOUT TRAINING THAT YOU HAVE HEARD THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDRESSED?
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