It's a MYTH!

chicklidell

Weight training turns fat into muscle. This is the equivalent of saying that you can turn any metal into gold; don't we wish! The way a body transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight training and losing fat through aerobics and diet simultaneously. Again, muscle and fat are very different types of tissue. We cannot turn one into the other.


Lifting weights increases your chest size. Women’s breasts are composed mostly of fatty tissue. It is impossible to increase breast size through weight training. As a matter of fact, if you go below 12 percent body fat, your breast size will decrease. Weight training does increase the size of the back, so this misconception probably comes from confusing an increase in back size with an increase in cup size. The only way to increase your breast size is by gaining fat or getting breast implants


As long as you exercise you can eat anything that you want. I wish this were true! However, this could not be further from the truth. Our individual metabolism determines how many calories we burn at rest and while we exercise. If we eat more calories than we burn on a consistent basis, our bodies will accumulate these extra calories as fat regardless of the amount of exercise that we do. This myth may have been created by people with such high metabolic rates (hardgainers) that no matter how much they eat or what they eat, they rarely meet or exceed the amount of calories that they burn in one day unless they put their mind to doing so. Therefore, their weight either remains stable or goes down.


Women only need to do cardio and if they decide to lift weights, they should be very light. First of all, if you only did cardio then muscle and fat would be burned for fuel.You need to do weights in order to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent any loss of muscle tissue. Women that only concentrate on cardio will have a very hard time achieving the look that they want. As far as the lifting of very light weights, this is just more nonsense. Muscle responds to resistance and if the resistance is too light, then there will be no reason for the body to change.


If you stop weight training your muscles turn into fat. This is like saying that an apple can turn into an orange. Muscle and fat are two totally different types of tissue. What happens many times is that when people decide to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to inactivity (use it or lose it) and they also usually drop the diet as well. Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression that the muscle is being turned into fat while in reality what is happening is that muscle is being lost and fat is being accumulated.

DavidLasVegas

Great article, thanks for posting.

jdhosier

Thanks for posting. Fitness myths are insidious obstacles to good health.

tamiesue2

Love how you lay it out there!! I have seen soooo many newbies completely confused by what I consider the basics. Great idea putting it all together!!

careyharv

Great article!! Thank you for posting.

hjfischer

Awesome, thanks. Weight lifting is part of the key to optimum health.