Health and Fitness Myths I HATE TO HEAR!!

I want to loose weight, I need to go to the gym.

TRUE AND FALSE.

Weight loss is 70-80% of your food intake. Its about what you eat, and how much at a time. And balancing. Although it is doctor reccommended to get 3-5 days 30-60min of exercise. Exercise is to change the look of your body. (Which requires more than 30-60min). You can loose weight by changing what you eat BUT it is doctor reccomended to exercise.

2. I ate a Salad thats my vegetable.

TRUE AND FALSE

Salads are a great way of getting in vegetable. However it is not when you coat it with tons of fattning dressing, crutons, and multiple ingredients at a time. My rule of thumb for salads is 4-5 ingredients.... 1- cheese, 2-meat or fish, 3- crackers, bread crumbs or crutons, 4- vegetable 5-dressing.

3. I need to do cardio everyday to loose weight!

FALSE

No. You need 3 things- CARDIO, STRENGTH, AND CONDITIONING to get a strong, lean and fit body. Cardio is to burn the fat, strength is to give you strong muscles, conditioning is to stretch, lengthen and repair your muscles. If you want the michelle obama arms lift weights, do power yoga, if you want the long lean look, try thai chi. You want to get your heart pumping and loose that extra 5lbs, do cardio. An even balance between the 3 will get you going.

Personally I do 2-3 hrs of each

My typical exercise schedule

-3 hrs of Cardio (Zumba- Mon, Tue and Sat)

-2 hrs of Conditioning (Pilates- Mon and Thursday)

-2 1/2-3 hrs of Strength- (1hr Weight Class- Wed, Weighted Core on the Gym Floor (30 min)- Tue, Wed, Thur, Sat)

This gives you a guideline for mapping out your exercise weeks.