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You have to exercise to lose weight.
If you don't exercise, your muscle will turn to fat.
Gyms/fitness centers are in the business of making people healthy.
It is impossible for muscle to turn into fat! People who don't exercise have higher fat percentages because their muscles are smaller.
Edit: My bad! I forgot that the topic was about the worst fitness advice.
Muscles don't exactly "turn to fat", but when you stop working out you lose muscle. When you lose muscle you no longer burn calories as efficiently/your metabolism slows down. And when your metabolism slows down, you put on fat much more readily.
No ... they're in the business of making money. The only person who has your fitness at heart is you.
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Originally Posted by yayoi
It is impossible for muscle to turn into fat! People who don't exercise have higher fat percentages because their muscles are smaller.
You both are correcting VegasGrace, but you seem to have forgotten what this thread is about, which is listing the WORST fitness information you've ever heard. That's what VegasGrace did. I doubt she actually thinks muscle can turn to fat.
Yeah, the low weight/high rep thing bugs the buhjeezus out of me.
Or women who say they don't want to use weights because they don't want to look like a man.
D'oh!
Or all the people who don't understand why they don't look better after going to the gym - peeps, you actually have to TRY hard to get results. Sitting on the leg extension machine set to 20 and talking on your cell phone is NOT trying.
There is so much bad advice it would be hard to narrow it down. One saying that I hate is "go hard or go home", as if going home to sit on your ass is better than doing a moderate workout.
Another top one would be don't squat, its bad for your knees/back/neck/shoulders/whatever. If squatting is so bad for people, you would think there would be thousands of injuries per year from people getting up off the toilet or out of their chair. Squatting WRONG is bad. Squatting properly is good. There are variations that can make the exercise work for almost anyone.
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but the Contour Belt! it's a belt that sits on your abs and makes you feel like you've done 1000 crunches! I borrowed one from a friend to see what it was like, I wore it for 30 seconds and had burn marks on my stomach...lol...real safe huh. It says it stimulates your muscles to contract even when you're not trying. It didn't work for me at all...
Is this how you respond whenever someone corrects your statements? Your point doesn't stand because the original statement is false and misleading. I'm not trying to pick a fight. I just think it does a disservice to people who come here looking for information when someone posts something that's wrong, which is what you did.
What, my point about how I must be doing something right because I have a lean fit body and I'm healthy? Yeah, that's false and misleading.
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People who don't exercise have higher fat percentages because their muscles are smaller.
I forgot that the topic was about the worst fitness advice.
