502: Debunking 7 Fitness Myths Everyone Believes (AVOID THESE NOW)
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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In today's episode we go over seven fitness myths that everyone believes, why they are false and how to avoid them in your journey.
Listed points:
1- Myth: More sweat equals a better workout/better results
- The amount of sweat produced varies between individuals and depends on factors like temperature and humidity.
2- Myth: Spot reduction is possible.
- Fat loss occurs throughout the body as a result of overall calorie expenditure and cannot be targeted to specific areas.
3- Myth: Lifting weights will make women bulky.
- It's difficult for women to gain a significant amount of muscle mass due to hormonal differences compared to men. Lifting weights can actually help women improve their strength, tone their bodies, and achieve a lean and fit appearance.
4- Myth: Crunches are the key to achieving six-pack abs.
- Visible abs are primarily the result of low body fat levels, which are achieved through a combination of a healthy diet, overall fat loss, and strength training.
5- Myth: You have to eat all clean food to see results. OR do keto, fasting, carnivore, etc.
- Different things will work for differe people and there’s no one diet that will be best for everyone.
6- Myth: Stretching before exercise prevents injuries.
- A better approach is to engage in a dynamic warm-up, including movements that mimic the upcoming activity.
7- Myth: You can’t have carbs after (insert made up time) or you’ll gain weight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we jump into the episode, if you are looking to level up your fitness, get results |
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| 0:19.4 | Colossus Fit. C-O-L-O-S-U-S-F-I-T. We will get you guaranteed results. You're going to feel absolutely incredible when you show up for yourself day to day and just feel amazing. So we're excited to help some of you awesome people send us that message. Now into the episode. What is going on, everyone? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm our coach and host Josh here with. |
| 0:42.1 | It's co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. |
| 0:46.2 | And we got an episode of MythBusters for you today. |
| 0:49.5 | There are too many myths. |
| 0:50.7 | I've been seeing more and more of them I find with summer. |
| 0:52.9 | We get all the just the experts |
| 0:55.1 | that have been waiting to pop out always ready to chime in with the tip uh at the most random time |
| 1:00.6 | you're like what the heck is this coming from and it can be tough especially as someone who does |
| 1:04.9 | this for a living who has a very good understanding of the science of the application and hearing |
| 1:09.6 | someone just come out with such confidence sometimes like oh my gosh so be like, oh my gosh. So we're going to save you from that. We're going to get through seven of the big ones and why they're in fact myths. So we're really excited to jump into it. What's number one, Kyle? And number one, we're starting with a workout one here, which is just that more sweat equals better results and better workouts. And I've heard this quite often and to this day I still, you know, we'll get messages, hey, I'm not sweating during my strength training. Are you sure I'm getting, you know, doing the right stuff? Like just there's a lot of people out there who are just focused simply on trying to sweat. You'll see photos of someone that's absolutely drenched who just feels like they've |
| 1:44.9 | just done the absolute most. And that's not typically how it works. It's awesome that you're working |
| 1:49.9 | up a sweat. You know, typically speaking, people will sweat from either leg days or cardio, but it shouldn't |
| 1:55.0 | be something that's simply focused on. Like there's so much more to getting results, having a periodized |
| 2:00.0 | routine, progressive overload. Like a lot of people I know like simply, there's so much more to getting results, having a periodized routine, |
| 2:19.9 | progressive overload. Like a lot of people I know, like simply, there's some people I used to train someone. She would just walk into the gym and start sweating. And that's just the way that her body produced the heat. And that's everyone's so unique. Everyone's so different. But it shouldn't be a goal to sweat more. Like it feels good when you're like, man, I worked. I just, You know, you just take your shirt off and it is just all sweating everything. |
| 2:51.7 | But that's not how it works. Simply focused on progressive overload, making great progress and not focused on that will see better results in the long run. Yeah. Like Kyle said, the sauna is not going to be your saving grace to losing weight. You're just going to lose water. That's all it really comes down to. And sweating is a great function of the body to cool the body. And it can be absolutely awesome. Like being in a sauna, getting a sweat, feels good to get a sweat. And I like to use a marker even for cardio. If I am sweating, I like that rule of sweat every day. Do something that challenges you enough to actually make you sweat. But sweating isn't just like just because i put myself in a garbage bag i'm not going to lose more fat that's not how |
| 2:56.2 | it works especially not at a significant degree so this is a big misnomer that people have and getting |
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