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Posted by: maxpro2

I need to make a bulletin board on fitness myths. What are the top five in your opinion, like spot reducing, toning, starving yourself to lose weight, etc.

Posted by: PWGriffin

heavy weight, low reps makes you bulky....light weight/high reps makes you cut.

Posted by: GoalGetter

You don't have to lift weights to lose weight, just do cardio.

Don't ever ever ever go over 60-65% of your max heart rate while doing cardio because you don't burn fat at a higher heart rate.

If you want to have visible abs do lots of crunches every day.

You can slim and tone your thighs by doing the abductor/adductor machines, and you can slim and tone your arms by doing bicep curps and tricep pressdown machine.

The smith machine is a good investment.

(we're just talking fitness/exercise myths, right? not nutrition?)

Posted by: CowPimp

Spot reduction/toning a la high repetition sets. (Particularly concerning abs)

Resistance training turns you bulky.

Machines are safer than freeweights.

The "fat burning zone."

Bodybuilding magazines have good training programs in them.

Posted by: GoalGetter

oh here's another good one:

Pilates creates long and lean muscles, like a ballerina.

Posted by: motopsyko32

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

You don't have to lift weights to lose weight, just do cardio.

Don't ever ever ever go over 60-65% of your max heart rate while doing cardio because you don't burn fat at a higher heart rate.

If you want to have visible abs do lots of crunches every day.

You can slim and tone your thighs by doing the abductor/adductor machines, and you can slim and tone your arms by doing bicep curps and tricep pressdown machine.

The smith machine is a good investment.

(we're just talking fitness/exercise myths, right? not nutrition?)

Blasphemy, the Smith Machine is a GREAT investment

Posted by: TJ Cline

If you stop working out all your muscle will turn to fat

Posted by: TJ Cline

More is better

Posted by: TJ Cline

Heavy weight builds hard dence looking muscle
Light weight builds soft looking muscle

Posted by: TJ Cline

If a woman lifts weights like a man she will build big masculine muscles

Posted by: TJ Cline

No pain no gain

Posted by: TJ Cline

Squats build the upper quads and hack squats build the lower quads

Posted by: CowPimp

I like the long lean muscles one. The last girl I was fooling with talked that kind of nonsense. I tried to talk sense into her, but oh well.

The one Foreman said where if you stop the muscle turns to fat is also a good one. I've heard that one numerous times.

Posted by: GoalGetter

I've also heard the "inverse" of the muscle-turns-to-fat...

"I want to start lifting weights because I've read that it can make your fat become muscle."

And the people who've said this believe that quite literally - like adipose tissue will go through some kind of chemical and physical change brought about by lifting weights.

Posted by: boilermaker

For some, this thread is going to be like when they found out Santa Clause wasn't real. Unfortunately, for some, they just found out the former.

Posted by: Double D

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

The smith machine is a good investment.

Yeah I found that out the hard way a few years ago!!!!! What a horrible investment!

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by Double D

Yeah I found that out the hard way a few years ago!!!!! What a horrible investment!

The only thing for which this piece of equipment is any good is reverse pullups/reverse pushups/horizontal pullups (whatever you prefer to call them).

Oh and for stretching my hamstrings.

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by boilermaker

For some, this thread is going to be like when they found out Santa Clause wasn't real. Unfortunately, for some, they just found out the former.

I think I did that to someone this weekend - but with regards to their diet. We went out for breakfast and I ordered my egg whites with chicken breast and some black beans and salsa, and a petite whole grain pancake no syrup, topped with some fresh berries. To drink - water with a slice of lemon.

She ordered this massacre of an omelette - whole eggs, three cheeses, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms, onions, peppers, zucchini and some other veggie, and it was drowningin hollandaise sauce. The dish came with country potatoes, and a buttered white english muffin. To drink - a large glass of orange juice, and then she got a refill on that too.

She ordered it, she said, because it was the "farmer's omelette" and had veggies and it was the "healthiest thing" she saw on the menu.

When i started to break it down for her (she asked, it wasn't unsolicited), she almost started crying. She was like, "but it has vegetables... i thought it was healthy..."

Posted by: maxpro2

Awesome, thanks for all the input everyone!

Posted by: PWGriffin

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

EVERYDAY I talk to my clients about diet and exercise...I have to hurt their feelings just like this.

The most popular one right now is that we can't work abs to get rid of their gut. That seems to hurt their feelings...they think since I'm a trainer I know the "special gut burning" exercises...

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by PWGriffin

EVERYDAY I talk to my clients about diet and exercise...I have to hurt their feelings just like this.

The most popular one right now is that we can't work abs to get rid of their gut. That seems to hurt their feelings...they think since I'm a trainer I know the "special gut burning" exercises...

oh my god don't get me started. I have a client who is seriously obese. AND he is a lower-limb amputee. AND he eats like crap.

He gets pissed off whenever we wrap up his workout and didn't do crunches! WHAT. THE. F*CK. I have told him repeatedly that doing crunches will do nothing to reduce the size of his stomach, and that just becaues he feels a "burn" there, doesn't mean it is burning the fat right off. He still will turn around after I say goodbye, and go off to the side to do crunches. Drives me nuts.

Posted by: Bakerboy

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

oh my god don't get me started. I have a client who is seriously obese. AND he is a lower-limb amputee. AND he eats like crap.

He gets pissed off whenever we wrap up his workout and didn't do crunches! WHAT. THE. F*CK. I have told him repeatedly that doing crunches will do nothing to reduce the size of his stomach, and that just becaues he feels a "burn" there, doesn't mean it is burning the fat right off. He still will turn around after I say goodbye, and go off to the side to do crunches. Drives me nuts.

Hahahaha... like you can't see him? that kills me... It sounds like the guy has seen to many AB machine ads on TV.

Posted by: kenwood

lmfao

Posted by: TJ Cline

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

oh my god don't get me started. I have a client who is seriously obese. AND he is a lower-limb amputee. AND he eats like crap.

He gets pissed off whenever we wrap up his workout and didn't do crunches! WHAT. THE. F*CK. I have told him repeatedly that doing crunches will do nothing to reduce the size of his stomach, and that just becaues he feels a "burn" there, doesn't mean it is burning the fat right off. He still will turn around after I say goodbye, and go off to the side to do crunches. Drives me nuts.

Simple, wrap up his workouts with crunches. Your job is not only to get him in shape but to motivate him and make him feel good about his workouts so he will want to come back and do more. Training 101.

Posted by: DOMS

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

oh my god don't get me started. I have a client who is seriously obese. AND he is a lower-limb amputee. AND he eats like crap.

Diabetic?

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by ForemanRules

He comes back. Motivation is not the problem. It's that he did a bunch of other core strengthening and core stability things during the workout and I am not going to waste my time counting out reps of crunches for him, propagating any myths just to make him happy.

MY version of TRAINING 101 doesn't include feeding my clients bullshit. I do crunches with those types of clients (the ones who need them psychologically) once in a while but with a 340 pound amputee, not only is this the least of their concerns, it is awkward and uncomfortable and unsafe for him - you have to see him do it to understand. He sits on the 75cm stability ball, locks his foot and prosthesis (very unsafely) into place by wedging himself against another machine and then proceeds to swing violently back and forth on the ball, using mostly his shoulders because even if i try to correct him he insists on trying to do "full sit ups" on that thing. It's terrible all around. He gets winded after like 12.

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by DOMS

Diabetic?

surprisingly no. but he's got a host of other issues - renal issues mostly. and he had a skin graft from the other leg to rebuild a stump for the leg he lost (14 years ago), so he's got a ton of scar tissue. The guy is a train wreck and he should really be going to a specialist but he likes this place, and I inherited him when i got hired. My boss would kill me if i suggested to the guy that he go somewhere else.

Posted by: motopsyko32

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

say the truth, you just dont want to have to hold his stump while he crunches

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by motopsyko32

say the truth, you just dont want to have to hold his stump while he crunches

You mean the fake leg? Hahaha. actually he's a really nice guy but he buys into every myth ever heard: Besides the crunches, he is really into the noni juice and mangosteen right now. His chiropractor peddles this crap, and convinced him these products are the key to his weight loss success.

Posted by: motopsyko32

i bet he has a bunch of infomercial products at home....

sadly, so do i

Posted by: boilermaker

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

kinda like the taco salad inventer ad by Budweiser. Is it healthy? It's a salad, isn't it?

Posted by: sonofman

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Originally Posted by boilermaker

kinda like the taco salad inventer ad by Budweiser. Is it healthy? It's a salad, isn't it?

Those Bud ad's are the funniest

Posted by: CowPimp

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Originally Posted by ForemanRules

Bleh, sometimes crunches are the last thing they need. In the case of GG's client, that sounds like it is most definitely the case. People are happy when they get results, even if it's not what they thought a program should look like.

Posted by: TJ Cline

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Originally Posted by CowPimp

I'm sure she has a great workout for him but letting him do something he wants to do for the last 3-4 min isn't going to hurt.

My boxing coach kicks my ass for 45 min but knows after I'm totaly spent and can do no more that I will find the energy to work the speed bag because I love it. If he let me do it first or not at all I would not get that extra 5 or 6 minutes of work in.

Posted by: PWGriffin

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Originally Posted by ForemanRules

I understand EXACTLY where you are coming from. I try to explain better ways of working the abs (core)to my clients and why....so hopefully they don't feel the need to do crunches everyday and we can focus on other things.

Today I had a client do planks at the end of every small series of exercises (3 total) Then a rotational exercise at the end of each of the next series...she had no desire to do any crunching at the end of that workout. heh.

Posted by: GoalGetter

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Originally Posted by PWGriffin

That is more along the lines of what i do with my clients (the amputee being the exception when it comes to planks) - planks, rotational stuff, unilateral work, etc. I throw in small amounts of crunches here and htere mostly for psychological reasons (theirs not mine). MOST understand now, but some like the amputee insist otherwise.

Posted by: GoalGetter

And as i type this all out - there is a trainer here who has spent at LEAST 30 minutes doing only CRUNCHES and variations of crunches with her two clients. I say "at least" 30 minutes because that's how long i've been here and they haven't moved from that spot on the floor in all this time.

Posted by: DOMS

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Originally Posted by GoalGetter

And as i type this all out - there is a trainer here who has spent at LEAST 30 minutes doing only CRUNCHES and variations of crunches with her two clients. I say "at least" 30 minutes because that's how long i've been here and they haven't moved from that spot on the floor in all this time.

All that effort, and they'll probably give up on fitness in the near future...

Posted by: CowPimp

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Originally Posted by ForemanRules

Yeah, you're probably right. That's usually what I do with isolation stuff that people like to do. However, in some cases the isolation stuff is contraindicated because they have shitty posture stemming from shortened/tight and weak/inactive muscles which is causing other issues like shoulder, knee, or back problems.

Posted by: ebabette

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Originally Posted by TJ Cline

can you get a flat stomach after 60?
I've always been pretty healthy and I run at the gym. Is it mostly about fat intake? Btw, I am vegetarian.

Posted by: Gazhole

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Originally Posted by ebabette

can you get a flat stomach after 60?
I've always been pretty healthy and I run at the gym. Is it mostly about fat intake? Btw, I am vegetarian.

Its about energy balance.

In a nutshell, if you are taking in more calories than you are eating, then you will store that as fat in adipose tissue.

It doesnt matter a great deal whether that energy comes from carbs, protein, or fat - just that there is too much of it.

Fats have lots of beneficial uses in the body.

Posted by: Motorcycled00d

fat makes you fat

the older you are the more time you have to spend lifting (7 days a week)

muscular physiques can only be achieved with steroids

creatine is a steroid

Posted by: FishOrCutBait

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Originally Posted by Motorcycled00d

fat makes you fat

the older you are the more time you have to spend lifting (7 days a week)

muscular physiques can only be achieved with steroids

creatine is a steroid

I could tie the knot in the rope for you if you like

Posted by: Perdido

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Originally Posted by Motorcycled00d

fat makes you fat

the older you are the more time you have to spend lifting (7 days a week)

muscular physiques can only be achieved with steroids

creatine is a steroid

good ones.

Another to add to the myths:

You need to exercise to "get" abs.

Posted by: FishOrCutBait

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Originally Posted by FishOrCutBait

I could tie the knot in the rope for you if you like

woah.

bahahahahahahaha

I was in the wrong tab when I wrote that Im sorry.

Those were great fitness myths

Posted by: Motorcycled00d

hahaha no problem i figured it was just some creatine rage

Posted by: camarosuper6

" I dont want to workout with weights because they make you bulky looking"

" I have a brother in law, once removed who is as big as you"

" I have to hit the muscle from multiple angles and lots of sets to see it grow"

"Low volume doesnt work"

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