TOP 6 FITNESS ERRORS

The information of exercise you ever heard may be wrong, so that it snow the time to differentiate fact and myth of exercise or fitness.

1. Weight Lifting for Big and Strong Body Shape

Many women get afraid to do weight lifting exercise because some of them think that this kind of exercise can make their body bigger. In fact, it is rather hard for women to create muscle tissues.

          The accumulation of body liquid and muscle tissues sometimes makes you think that your muscle gets bigger, but actually it does not. In order to build muscle mass, you need to train your muscle continuously, so that you have to have regular muscle exercise.

          Weight exercise will help you to build muscle mass and to reduce fat percentage. This kind of exercise gives various advantages for women. In a study, it is showed that after menopause, women who tend to have sedentary habit (just sit) and do muscle exercise have better body balance than other group. Besides, women do not have testosterone creating bigger and stronger muscle as man has.

2. Stop Doing Exercise Change Muscle into Fat

This myth comes because of you are afraid that every thing you have done in fitness program will be useless. In fact, muscle and fat are definitely different body tissues. Physically, it is impossible for certain body tissues change into other one.

          It is true that stopping doing exercise will make you get more fat, but it just because you have smaller muscle size. Low muscle volume will make your body less efficient in burning calorie and fat, so that it tends to add more fat.

3.  Yoga and Pilates are Enough for Body Fit

Yoga and palates are kind of useful exercise for health. They need muscle elasticity and good posture giving positive mental advantage. However, you are not enough just to do weight lifting exercise, biking, or running. The real fitness is the one giving challenge for while part of body.

In order to get the real result, you have to have good hearth beat and have various exercise to train your hearth, lung muscle, and inside organ.

4. Try Hard to Get Maximum Result

In fact, genetic factor play important role in giving respond toward your exercise. Some studies show that people have different respond although they do the same exercise.

5. Getting Older, Getting Bigger

Most people get bigger when they get old, but it is actually not a must. Basically, less physical activities and metabolism reduction happens because of lean body mass. This condition may reduce basal metabolic rate as older we are. This changing usually occurs from 20 years old to 30 years old.

The percentage of fat will increase step by step and it reduces your calorie necessity. This condition happens because of fat cell burn les calorie than muscle. Lower metabolism means that you will get bigger and bigger as old you are unless you reduce food supply.

Physical activities will help you to burn calorie, so that you can reduce body weight. Then, in the age of 40s, women starts to loose 6 – 8 % muscle, but you can return it with two months regular exercise. Of course you have to do exercise three times a week for 40 minutes including warming up, main exercise, and cooling down as the last part.

6. Fat in Certain Part of Body can be Reduced

You must be tired if you can not reduce body weight after doing hard exercise. Usually, your top arm still contains a lot of fat. This is just a myth. You have to know that body can not reduce fat selectively from one part to other part of body just because you give special attention on it.

          Body saves fat in all part of body as one unity as the genetic pattern. You can not tighten fat with certain exercise as weight lifting exercise or calisthetic. The accumulation of body fat must be reduced to increase calorie burning process with aerobic exercise and calorie controlling.

          You can strengthen and tighten your muscle for your physical health, but it does not influence fat condition. you have to pay attention on every progress you have. You can wear tight clothe once a week to measure your body weight and to recognize your progress.

 Perfect with Warming Up and Stretching

          Doing exercise to tighten muscle and skin seems very easy, but if you do it correctly, you will get maximum result. Warming up and stretching is not as easy as you imagine. In order or get perfect result and does injure yourself, you have to start your exercise with warming and stretching.

          You do treadmill or doing static biking for warming up and then continue with stretching. Do every movement with relax and fun situation. Besides, you need to walk around your house to strengthen your foot muscle. So, your buttock will be tighter, higher, and rounder.