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Exercise Myths - Week 1

Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2006/08/10, 01:21 PM Good e-article that is sent to my email once a week, thought I would share. RB EXERCISE MYTHS - Week 1 Over the next few weeks we will discuss exercise myths - some of which might be preventing you from getting the right level of fitness in your own life. The surgeon general estimates that if more Americans got up and got moving that 200,000 lives each year could be saved. There is a lot of advice out there and we're going to try and help answer some of your questions. Myth: "If I lift weights I'll be too muscular. I don't want to have a masculine physique." A lot of women fear that lifting weights will make them appear bulky or too muscular. Strength training is NOT for men only. Women have less bone and muscle than men, increasing potential for diseases like osteoporosis. Muscle atrophy or loss of muscle mass increases a woman's risk as she ages. Generally women do not have the testosterone levels to achieve big, bulky muscles. Female body builders have to do a lot of extra things to achieve their physique - things that don't exist in most exercise programs. Myth: "I want to boost my workout so I use light weights on my arms and legs." You may see people with weights out walking or jogging, some even strapped to ankles. Exercise physiologists now say that this can be more harmful than beneficial. Added weight can slow you down, decreasing aerobic benefit. And generally the weight isn't enough to give you strength training benefits. You would be better off to lift weights that you can do only about 10-12 repetitions of. As you increase strength you can increase the weight to adequately stress the muscle. Do your aerobic exercise separately from your weight training. Stay tuned…next week we'll explode two more myths! -------------- Bettia.... You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain ravenbeauty@freetrainers.com
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/08/10, 01:47 PM I love these myth busters!!!I myself believed probably most of them when I started to workout.These are great!!
Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2006/08/15, 09:26 PM still awaiting week 2..LOL! -------------- Bettia.... You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain ravenbeauty@freetrainers.com
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/08/15, 10:05 PM Sometimes it's weird to me that people believe these things. I don't understand why someone would put that much effort into an exercise program without first understanding what is happening. -------------- Iron and chalk.
Ravenbeauty Posts: 3,755 Joined: 2002/09/24	2006/08/17, 11:33 AM Tell me about it, I find that hard to , but they really do. if they didn't, these clarifications wouldn't have to be made.:dumbbell: -------------- Bettia.... You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -Mark Twain ravenbeauty@freetrainers.com
BILL06 Posts: 755 Joined: 2006/08/08	2006/08/17, 03:54 PM Hey wrestler, for someone like me just getting started out but is very interested in whats going to happen to my body and would like to learn more about it, could you recommend a book that maybe you have read and find true to form, you seem very passionate and well informed on the subject ? -------------- \"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\" ~ Mark Twain
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/08/17, 03:57 PM Oh boy. :big_smile: -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/08/17, 04:22 PM Get your reading glasses out bill....that will be a long one.....I'm comfy wrestler...go ahead.
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/08/17, 09:28 PM Hey bill - The New Rules of Lifting is a good read. As is Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (which is an e-book). -------------- You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
BILL06 Posts: 755 Joined: 2006/08/08	2006/08/18, 07:59 AM Thank you asimmer, ill look into them :big_smile: -------------- \"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\" ~ Mark Twain
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/08/18, 10:14 AM Also there is a thread called book recommendations - check fit buddy.