Facts and Myths

1. Myth.   Muscle turns to Fat.

    Fact. Muscle and Fat are 2 completely different things. Like Chalk and Cheese so how can one
              turn into the other?

2. Myth.   I don’t want to train with weights or machines because I don’t want big muscles.

   Fact.    Muscles are what you use to burn energy. If you burn more energy than you eat you will lose weight.
               Big muscles are really hard to get without steroids, If you trained hard for a year to get big muscles
              (without steroids) you would be lucky to put 4-5 lbs (2kg) of real muscle during that time. Don’t confuse
               losing fat and exposing muscles you already have underneath that fat with actually building bigger
               muscles. So train with weights, machines or against your own body weight until your muscles are the
               size you want, then don’t add any more weight and they will not grow anymore..

3. Myth    Aerobic exercise burns more energy than weights or machines..

    Fact.     In the short term i.e. during aerobics (normally 45mins to 1 hr) you do burn more energy than
                 weights or resistance exercise, but after a few hours of aerobics your Base Metabolic Rate
               ( your bodies resting or tick over rate) returns to normal.
                 However after resistance workouts, lasting the same amount of time, it can take anything up to 36
                 hours for your Base Metabolic Rate to return to normal.
                So in short any resistance training burns more energy than aerobics over a 24 hr period of time...

4. Myth.    I'm big boned, from a big family, have always been overweight so it’s harder for me to lose
                weight.

   Fact.      Stop looking for excuses; you have eaten more food than your body needs so it has stored it as
                 fat..

5. Myth.    Weights and machines are for men, not women.

     Fact.     99% of muscles in men and women are the same so they both respond to the same exercises
                  Also Why do they put padding in ladies jacket shoulders if not to widen them and give the impression
                  of a smaller waist? So another way to appearing to have a smaller waist is by getting bigger
                  shoulders...

6. Myth     I don’t want to look like male/female bodybuilders so don’t want to lift weights etc.

Fact       See Myth number 2. Also Professional bodybuilders both male and female dedicate their whole
              lives to taking exercise to its extremes to achieve a particular look, which by the way takes a lot of hard
              work, dedication and years to get.So the ones who achieve that level without cheating (using steroids)
              deserve respect for their efforts...