Top 10 Weight Loss Training Myths You Have Probably Tried

Ok, let stop with mistakes. No more weight loss training myths. I am sure you have tried some of these myths without knowing, but now you have to know for sure.

Imagine that you have perfect weight loss nutrition plan, you do your cardio and weight training, but there are no results at all. Sometimes it is even worse – you are training and gain pounds instead of loosing them.

It is shocking for much people to see that they are even heavier than before, after so much training and dieting. They even do not think that the problem is their training not weight loss nutrition.

See these very common weight loss myths. You have probably tried some of them thinking they are actually right. I hope this will shine the problems and no one read this article won’t make the same mistakes.

Weight loss myths and mistakes:

1) You are training longer, so you are going to burn more fats. Aaaak. Wrong. This is the biggest weight loss myth. Too long physical training will cause too much catabolic hormones in your blood.

You will:
  • Start to burn muscles for energy and you won’t be able to recover them after that. Also do not forget that your muscles are your strongest weapon against fats.
  • This is stress situation and your body will stop burning fats to prevent loosing too much of them, because it has a limit.
  • Overtraining reverse weight loss results and block your body. If you overtrain - say goodbye to weight loss results.
I am sure you are imagine the whole picture.

2) Too long rests between weight training’s sets won’t bring me bad consequences. Another famous myth. If you rest too long between sets in your weight training this is also bad. It is even worse if you do that in your weight loss training (cardio).

30 sec to 1 min is reasonable during weight loss period. So forget about 3min long rests. Much people rest too much during cardio training and especially when they do circle weight loss training.

This will cause:
  • Less fats burn for energy.
  • Too much time in the gym.
  • Shock when set foot on the scale.
3) Really on weight training and forget about cardio. This is what most people do. They think that weight training is enough to loose fats.

The reasons why this is not true are:
  • Weight training is muscle training. It is anaerobic training which means that your muscles do not need oxygen for energy process – no oxygen no fat loss process.
  • Weight training involve fast muscle fibers. You need to activate your slow muscle fibers to achieve fat loss.
  • Cardio temp and oxygen’s flow lets you keep burning process constant.
The conclusion is that you have to do cardio unless you combine cardio and weight training in one.

4) I am on quest for weight loss so it is not important how I am exercising. Yes may be, but it is a training myth as well. If you don’t care about right exercising than what you are going to do after training injury – I will tell you what – staying at home and gaining weight instead of losing it.

So, be careful with your training and cardio. Cardio is fast, but keep an eye for right exercising if you want to go to the end.

5) It is not important when I do my trainings. Another big one. Of course it is important.

Why?
  • If you concentrate your trainings one after another at the end of week without days for rest you will overtrain and gain fats in the days you do not have training.
  • If you do cardio after your nutrition forget about fat loss.
  • If you do cardio right before weight training you will loose benefits from weight training, but not vice versa.
6) It is not important what I will choose for cardio – everything is equal. Yes, but it is not. It matters if you choose running, cycling, veloergometer or swimming for weight loss training. They all burn calories, but they have differences.

Running and swimming are harder and burn more calories. But running also pressures your articulations and can burn too much of your muscles. Cycling is good, but sometimes it is difficult to keep constant temp.

The most body spare is veloergometer training. It also can put more muscles on your legs while burn more fats and it is easy to keep constant temp.

7) If I train my butt very often I will burn more fats there. Actually it is disputable topic, but if you rely on healthy natural ways to achieve your weight loss goals do not count on this.

This is called Spot reduction and if you train your but more often you will burn fats on your hands and face. When you burn all fats there you will start to burn fats on your butt, especially if you are woman.

8) It is all right to eat before training, because my body will burn the food. It is right. But you want to burn fats, yes. If you eat before training after month you will have the same weight, because your body will burn only food not fats. Get it?

9) If I do only cardio I will loose the weight I want. May be you are right. But probably you are not. Much people loose their time doing only cardio and they can not loose as much as they want.

Very often you eat too much and only cardio training isn’t enough to burn so much calories. You have to do weight training time to time if you want be capable to handle all these calories.

10) Rely on diet and no training at all. This is what most of the people do. They want to reduce their weight as easy as possible. "Can I loose 20 pounds in a month with this diet without training" – ask they. NO, I am answering. YES, magic pill’s gurus answering.

My point is to show these common mistakes, without lying anyone, because these myths are born in some guru’s head. Now I hope there won’t be so much people trapped.

By Miroslav Nikolov
Published: 9/9/2008
 
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