DIE DIE DIE!!!
What are the top fitness/nutrition myths you would like to straight up murder?
Mine:
1. Spot reduction/toning
2. Carbs are bad and evil like satan
3. Cleanse/detox. My favourite is the coffee enema because we all know shoving a double espresso up your *kitten* will totally clean your liver.
Mine:
1. Spot reduction/toning
2. Carbs are bad and evil like satan
3. Cleanse/detox. My favourite is the coffee enema because we all know shoving a double espresso up your *kitten* will totally clean your liver.
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1200 calories.0
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Everything that you said. I'd expand on the first one, though.
1. Cardio for "toning"1200 calories.
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If you eat less your body will hold on to fat.0
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No eating after 8p.m.
Calories can't tell time.0 -
"Female lifters should fear getting bulky." -I would like to take an axe to this one. DIE!0
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Females shouldn't lift heavy weights because they will end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger0
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Starvation Mode.0
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What are the top fitness/nutrition myths you would like to straight up murder?
Mine:
1. Spot reduction/toning
2. Carbs are bad and evil like satan
3. Cleanse/detox. My favourite is the coffee enema because we all know shoving a double espresso up your *kitten* will totally clean your liver.
LMFAO! mine are
1. sugar/fat/carbs is evil
2.sit ups/ crunches will get me abs ( a woman actually told me this the other week, her ' bodybuilding . husband. Who incidentally has no abs on display, had told her this, and I was wrong for thinking reducing my body fat will help to display them!)
3. I don't want to do weights, i'll get too bulky.0 -
Bread goes straight to your belly-fat!0
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Carbs make you fat.----NO!0
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That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.0
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What are the top fitness/nutrition myths you would like to straight up murder?
Mine:
1. Spot reduction/toning
2. Carbs are bad and evil like satan
3. Cleanse/detox. My favourite is the coffee enema because we all know shoving a double espresso up your *kitten* will totally clean your liver.
I think you just won an award for my favorite post of the day...
...scratch that, favorite post of the week.0 -
That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.
It is. :flowerforyou:0 -
No eating after 8p.m.
Calories can't tell time.
They can't. :flowerforyou:
I eat after 8pm most days. :ohwell:0 -
I wore an HRM and it said I burned 8430 calories while gardening in my back yard. Do you think it's accurate?0
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Oh man, I thought this was an Avett Brothers thread:grumble:0
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Females shouldn't lift heavy weights because they will end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger0
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I heard my boss (and bear in mind we help people who want to make some lifestyle changes and start down the losing weight/get fitter road, so she really should know better) tell a client that if she stopped exercising 'her muscle would turn to fat'! What?? Um....no!!0
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1. You need breakfast
2. Artificial sweeteners are going to make you fat
3. The perceived level of cleanliness of food is what is important for weightloss0 -
My favourite one I heard recently:
Female lifters can avoid getting bulky by using a narrow grip.0 -
That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.
Ha, I was going to say the myth that artificial sweeteners are the worstest, evilest, killer poison EVAH! I hate that .0 -
If you've gained 5 pounds in a week it's probably muscle. :sad:
I wish!0 -
1. Lemon water
2. Starvation mode
3. Any and all foods labeled as "bad"0 -
1. Gaining muscle while in a consistent calorie deficit.
2. That consumption of any particular food directly increases weight loss.0 -
When people with 100lbs to go tell the people who are lean as hell that they are eating the wrong stuff...0
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Haha I don't like being told to eat breakfast.
Isn't going to happen.
ETA: Unless it's weekend brunch, than it's on. But breakfast and brunch are not the same.0 -
"To burn fat, lift light weights for at least 20-30 reps" fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..I want this logic to die! :explode:0
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That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.
This is not a myth.0 -
Wait, I follow all of these, religiously.0
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you can eat whatever you want as long as you work out.0
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