Have exercise misconceptions prevented you from starting an exercise routine? Clear up any confusion and let these tips improve your fitness routine. Hopefully none of these common exercise myths and misconceptions have prevented you from exercising.
1. Common Mistake: Failure to set goals. Do you exercise without a specific goal in mind? Having a clear goal set is a critical step in fitness and weight loss success. Tracking your progress will help ensure you see improvements, will help to motivate you and help you achieve your ultimate goal.
2. Common Misconception: No Pain, No Gain. Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong. Do not ignore this. When you challenge yourself, you will encounter physical discomfort and need to overcome it. An example of this would be when training for a marathon. It is important that you have covered basic training before the advance training. Basic training develops the body and gets it ready for the advanced routine. You need to learn to “read” your body. Is the heavy sweating because you are pushing your body or could it be the beginning of a heart attack. Exercise is important. Do it correctly and you can do it for life.
It is normal for you to hurt after you train, but it must be done gradually with a good amount of rest periods to allow proper healing. There are two common problems here with beginners. You can cause long lasting damage to muscles, tendons and ligaments if you work out while you are suffering from pain, without allowing enough resting time to heal. You might find yourself suffering from chronic, long-lasting pain if you do this which means that you will no longer be able to exercise.
If you wake up the next morning after you exercised and can barely drag your aching body out of bed because everything hurts, you may be less motivated to exercise at all. Constant pain is a great way of killing your exercise program.
3. Common Mistake: Sacrificing Quality for Quantity. When you are at the point where you are looking to increase the number of reps of a particular exercise, and strengthen the corresponding muscles, instead of forcing yourself to do more reps each time try decreasing the number of reps in a set and instead increase the number of sets. You will feel less tired and will be able to gain strength in your fast-twitch muscles.
4. Common Myth: Weight Training Makes Women Bulky. Weight training for a woman will strengthen and tone muscle, burn fat and increase metabolism, but is unlikely to build mass. Women do not produce enough of testosterone to build muscle mass in the same way that men do.
5. Common Mistake: Over-Emphasizing Strengths. You should start focusing on your weaknesses rather than what you are good at. This will help you to balance things out. For example, if your lower body is stronger than your upper body, then try to only work this area one day a week.
Being smart about how you exercise will take you a long way. It is important to have a healthy body so get out there and start exercising today.
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