Separating Fitness & Nutrition Myths From Facts

Myth: If you exercise regularly, it doesn't matter if you eat right.

Fact: If you exercise regularly, it matters even more that you eat right.

Myth: Cardio or Target Heart Rate aerobics is better for burning fat than weight training.

Fact: To transform your physique, you must perform anaerobic cardio and train with weights.

Myth: It's too complicated to figure out how to eat right.

Fact: Feeding your body the right way is very simple, not complicated.

Myth: Low-carb diets are the best way to lose fat.

Fact: Low-carb dieters gain all or more of their weight back 97% of the time.

Myth: Once you reach a certain age, you can't get in shape.

Fact: You can improve your health and energy, no matter what your age, gender, or condition.

Myth: Foods that are good for you are bland and don't taste good.

Fact: Healthy recipes can be delicious and nutritious.

Myth: Eating right takes wayyy too much time.

Fact: You're guaranteed to create more time in your life by eating healthier.

Myth: You need to have a certain type of genetics to get ripped.

Fact: Everyone has the right genetics to get great fat loss results.

Myth: To lose weight, you need to take a prescription or diet pill.

Fact: When you lose fat the "right" way, you don't need prescriptions or diet pills.

Myth: To be healthy, you just have stop eating bad foods.

Fact: Your health and energy is greatly enhanced by eating healthier, portion-controlled meals.

Myth: You should not eat for "emotional reasons".

Fact: You should enjoy eating, and it should be a pure pleasure!
Myth: To stabilize blood sugar, you have to stop eating carbohydrates.

Fact: Eating protein with fibrous carbs, and small amounts of friendly fats balances blood sugar.

Myth: To make a change, you need to wait until you're all ready.

Fact: If you wait until you're "ready." You'll be waiting forever! Successful people do it now.

Myth: If women lift weights, they'll get "bulky."

Fact: Resistance exercise helps women create lean, toned bodies.

Myth: Weight training is only for young athletes.

Fact: People of all ages should be weight training 3 or 4 times a week.

Myth: Muscles grow and fat-burning happens while you're working out.

Fact: High-intensity, twelve minute workouts are "stimuli" for the results that occur while you're resting and recuperating.

Myth: Longer exercise bouts burn the most fat.

Fact: High intensity effort produces the best results.

Myth: Eating right means three "square meals" with small snacks.

Fact: Eating five to six small, nutritious meals a day is the right way!
Myth: People who overeat lack will power.

Fact: Overeating is a natural instinct that can be overcome with the right philosophy.

Myth: High-carbohydrate, low-fat diets work best.

Fact: People are becoming fat from a "carb overdose" and misleading information.

Myth: You have to count every calorie you eat.

Fact: You should count "portions," not calories.

Myth: If you "eat right," you don't need to take supplements.

Fact: Studies show our soil and foods nutrients has drastically depleted, so we all need to take supplements.

Myth: You need to drink water only when you are thirsty.

Fact: Your body needs way more water than it's telling you.

Myth: You have to eat "perfectly" all the time.

Fact: Strive for Consistency NOT perfection, because there's no such thing as eating "perfectly."

This is the foundation to get you started on long-term fat-loss *habits*.

 Without habits, you start over again and again.

 If you don't keep an eye on them, or make them a permanent part of your lifestyle, they will "sneak" back into your life, causing you to regress back to what the media and masses promote - Fat-loss quick fixes and get-rich-quick schemes.


Don't fall for it. Live by the "right" philosophies so you can build health and wealth *long-term*.

Shaun Hadsall
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