1735: Worst Fitness Myths That Keep People Out of Gyms
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin cover five myths that keep people from going to the gym.
- How myths have a tendency to spread and grow, and people believe them to be true. (2:30)
- What motivated Mind Pump to communicate this message. (3:57)
- The Five Worst Fitness Myths That Keep People Out of Gyms.
- #1 – That people are mean and critical of overweight members. (9:39)
- #2 – The fittest people are the most judgmental. (16:40)
- #3 – That fit-looking people have it all figured out. (21:51)
- #4 – It costs a lot of money to have access to a gym. (27:40)
- #5 – The biggest, strongest people in the gym are mean. (32:44)
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Mind Pump, right? |
| 0:19.0 | In today's episode, we talk about some of the worst fitness myths that keep people out of the gym. |
| 0:26.0 | This is probably some of the most dangerous damaging fitness myths around because they actually prevent people from working out in the first place. |
| 0:33.0 | Very, very sad, but we go over them, we dispel them, we destroy them so that after this episode, you can go to the gym. |
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