What is the WORST fitness advice....

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  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Stay in a calorie deficit to lose weight.
  • meaningful99
    meaningful99 Posts: 174
    A woman told me in all seriousness that her secret to weight control was to drink four beers instead of food for dinner every night, and she suggested I try it.
  • MooMooooo
    MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
    My overweight husband always likes to tell me 'I don't need to diet - exercise is all anyone needs to do' OK champ *rolls eyes*
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    more reps, lower weight will tone your muscles.

    this was conventional wisdom for many years.
  • AlongCame_Molly
    AlongCame_Molly Posts: 2,835 Member
    You do not need cardio to lose weight.

    You don't, though.

    This. You can very easily lose weight with little to no cardio. I did!
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    that you should have a rest day.
  • scaredofcoasters
    scaredofcoasters Posts: 90 Member
    "It's genetic." I even believed this for a while. That I'd never get fit because I come from a heavier family. Yeah right! Now that family keeps telling me, "I wish I could lose weight like that," yet they never take my advice.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    \If you can't go A2G, don't bother trying squats.
  • delaney056
    delaney056 Posts: 475
    You can eat as many calories as you want, as long as you low carb it.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    That you should do absolutely no cardio when you're losing weight, even if you enjoy it and have several foot and bike races coming up in the next few months.
  • JSheehy1965
    JSheehy1965 Posts: 404
    that women shouldn't lift dumbbells over 3lb.
  • amandapye78
    amandapye78 Posts: 820 Member
    you can get addicted to exercise and you need to be sure that doesnt happen. My entire family is afraid of this affliction lol
  • JJordon
    JJordon Posts: 857 Member
    Do nothing, submit to your fate.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    You do not need cardio to lose weight.

    The worst advice you've ever received is something true? What a blessed existence!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    You do not need cardio to lose weight.
    You don't. You could do all the cardio in the world and not lose weight.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    that you should have a rest day.

    I'm not sure people are reading the topic. This is supposed to be about BAD advice, not good advice!
  • nsagley
    nsagley Posts: 84 Member
    Don't eat ANYTHING that's white.
  • NathanHaines
    NathanHaines Posts: 5 Member
    ?
  • Tishy78
    Tishy78 Posts: 108 Member
    A variation of the lifting one...

    I don't need to lift, I just need some bands to tone those areas I want.
  • fresh_start59
    fresh_start59 Posts: 590 Member
    that women shouldn't lift dumbbells over 3lb.

    I have 3-pound weights and was telling a friend that they weren't heavy enough (even for weakling me). She told me that I would hurt myself using 3-pounders and gave me a set of 1-pound dumbells to use instead. It may not have been the right advice for me, but I know her advice was given because she genuinely cares.
  • NathanHaines
    NathanHaines Posts: 5 Member
    I apologize i have lost 82 pounds doing cardio and weight lifting. I know that some people do not have to do cardio but for the state I was in before I started losing weight i had to do cardio otherwise I was not going anywhere
  • DoingitWell
    DoingitWell Posts: 560 Member
    Don't left weights because when you get older your muscle will turn into fat. Ummm is that even biologically possible? lol
  • plipsurt
    plipsurt Posts: 185 Member
    That people weighing double what I did can do jumping jacks so man up and get on with it. I'm now waiting for knee surgery as I popped the cartilage!
  • laf0195
    laf0195 Posts: 71 Member
    I must say, all the worst advice I've ever gotten has been from my school gym coaches. Isn't that comforting? The people hired to teach school children about fitness still spout fonts of wisdom such as, "girls should do high reps with low weight to tone." Also, even when teaching us about healthy eating, they never explained ANYTHING so I never really knew what a calorie was. Lol. The best thing they ever taught me was how to do a sit up; last year I showed a trainer how they had us do them and he informed me that they can do damage your spine after doing then for years. O.o fantastic.

    Oh I almost forgot, my grandfather told me he doesn't believe in calories. That was a fun conversation.
  • laf0195
    laf0195 Posts: 71 Member
    Don't left weights because when you get older your muscle will turn into fat. Ummm is that even biologically possible? lol

    No. Muscle does not turn to fat, unless you ask the bros at the gym. Lol.
  • jayche
    jayche Posts: 1,128 Member
    Guy told me to bounce the bar off my chest while benching one time.
  • samantha1242
    samantha1242 Posts: 816 Member
    What's the point in yoga? It's not like you are getting a workout stretching, praying to some yoga god and listening to monks chant. Only do cardio.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Knees can't go past toes when squatting.
    "A study done by Fry AC, Smith JC, Schilling BK. (Effect of knee position on hip and knee torques during the barbell squat. J Strength Cond Res. 2003 Nov;17(4):629-33) examined joint kinetics during back squats under two conditions. The first condition placed a board in front of the participants’ shins, which restricted forward displacement of the knee. In the second condition, movement wasn’t restricted at all. They squatted normally and the knees were allowed to pass the toes.

    The researchers found that restricting the forward excursion of the knees during the squat (not allowing the knees to go over toes) increased anterior lean of the trunk and promoted an increased “internal angle at the knees and ankles.”

    The results showed a 22% decrease in knee torque and a 1070% increase in hip torque! That stress has to go somewhere. Keeping the knees behind the toes definitely reduces the forces on the knee, but those forces were transferred more than tenfold to the hips and lower back."
  • bmqbonnie
    bmqbonnie Posts: 836 Member
    Don't do crunches or other ab exercises, it will actually make your belly stick out more.
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    I had a work mate that didn't think counting calories made you lose. *blinks* Uh, yeah..that's sooooo how I didn't lose the weight I did. HA! Some people are ignorant.

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