6 Common Myths About Exercise And Weight Loss

6 Common Myths About Exercise And Weight loss

In this article, you will learn about 6 common myths about exercise and weight loss.We know that daily exercise is very good for optimizing health. But with so many limitless and options, it is easy to get overwhelmed with what kind of works. Here below various exercises, you can do it for ultimate fitness.

1. The More you sweat, the more Weight you drop :

Sweating doesn’t make you lose weight. But, burning calories is all about loosing weight. To lose weight, in the end of the day you have to burn more calories than you have eaten. We want more calories(energy) to “go out”, rather than “going in”.

Surely, sweating makes you lose some weight in the form of water, but that’s temporary (the weight you lost, goes right back on you). This is because burning calories has little to do with sweating.

If running and excessive sweating ain’t your thing, you can walk preferable. Burning calories is associated with the number of steps you have taken in a day. Usually most people try to achieve a goal of 10,000 steps, a day.

2. Walking, wearing ankle/ wrist weights, helps you in burning more calories :

Wearing weighted items while doing exercise can ruin your efforts to burn calories. Using of weights (putting strain on joints and ligaments) while jogging or walking can damage your body. Putting strain can increase the chance of injury, and then you might be resting on the couch, bearing pain and burning no calories.

3. Exercising, more than an hour will burn up your muscle tissues:

You will not burn your muscle tissues, even if you exercise more than an hour. Our body is continuously burning a mixture of carbohydrate and fat with a small amount of protein. Getting to the point where you only burn protein is extremely rare.

However, we do not recommend exercising for more than an hour at a time, not because that it will burn the muscle tissues. But it’s because, joints, ligaments and muscles get weak after an hour of exercise, which increases the possibility of an injury.

4.  No pain, no gain:

Burning muscles does not mean that you are getting fit. Cardiorespiratory fitness is very important as it provide all sorts of health aid, like a stronger heart and a leaner body. But, if you feel a lot of burn in the muscles while exercising, that means you are not becoming more cardio-fit.

In fact, you may only feel a little change to your actual heart and experience more burn in the muscles. To have a fitter body and cardiovascular system, you have to exercise more than your targeted heart rate zone.

5.  Targeting at one area, alike belly fat, and getting rid of it :

Media has created a hype about “Spot reduction”, which really is not a thing. Physiologically it is impossible to lose fat, specifically in one area. Losing fat from hips, belly, butt, and anywhere else does happen, only because you have created an energy deficit, i.e., you are burning more calories than you are eating.The scientifically proven way to do this, is with lifelong healthy habits- intake of a fiber rich, low calorie diet and exercising daily.

So, everyday dedicate time for aerobic workout. And thrice a week, target all of your major muscles with strength training exercise. It is equally important to eat- fruits and vegetables, beans and whole grains each day. And you will lose all the excess fat, from everywhere on your body.

6. Exercising over your heart rate zone will not burn fat:

It is true that the relative percentage of burning fat will go down, but the fat burned in total will stay the same or will go up.As long as you are healthy, maintaining good body shape, and comfortable with exercising at higher levels, you can carry on doing more exercise over your heart rate zone.You need to avoid Exercising over your heart rate zone, only if you are having heart related problems, a negating treadmill stress test or, you have been advised by the doctor to not exceed your heart rate.

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