What is the WORST fitness advice....

"walking won't help you lose weight"

I get a never ending mud slide of unsolicited advice from people in terrible shape. The hard bodies don't say a word. Too busy training. LOL

So true. Every day I get at least one person giving me weight loss advice who has barely made it out of the gate themselves. And half the time they think I need to do something they heard on Dr. Oz... :indifferent:

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*

I used to do that. That's how I ended up at 200+. "I work out so much, but barely lose any weight. Why not?", she said as she finished eating an entire large supreme pizza all by herself...

Seriously, my band mate told me I should just try herorin.

Well.. he's probably right.. you'd most likely lose weight.. LOL.

Just not pot.. that makes you eat more..

Oh I almost forgot, my grandfather told me he doesn't believe in calories

They don't count on holidays or weekend nights or at parties though right?? LOL

BTW. those are things I have been told.

My favorite though: After you have kids you just can't lose weight anymore.. ha!

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*

my super skinny hubby who can eat everything under the sun and not gain a pound and who can work out for one hour and bulk up tells me the same thing!!

"All you have to do to lose weight is give up soda and stop eating after 6 pm."

If it were that easy, wouldn't we all be so stoked!

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!

Damn you Jillian Michaels!!!! (If that's who you got it from, I have horrific flashbacks of her shouting random words in 30DS still, so I remember it well)

You only need to exercise at 50-60% of your maximum heart rate to lose weight. Although any exercise is good for you, this is won't create fat loss. Surprisingly all the cardio machines at the gym have their "fat loss" programs set to exactly this.

These "fat loss" programs are set to 50-60% of the max heart rate because in that's the area where, in percent, the most energy you receive is won out of your bodyfat. If your heart rate increases, that fat-percentage decreases and you're percentage of energy won out of carbs increases.
However, higher heart rate -- > more energy needed. Eventough you get less energy from fat with a high heart rate and more from carbs (percentwise), you're ABSOLUTELY burning more carbs and fats than with the 50-60% heart rate.

The problem is that it implies you're automatically burning fat. You're not. If you're eating an excess of calories, you will be burning little to no fat even in the "fat burning zone." If it were that easy we could all just eat as much as we want and lose body fat as long as we spent an hour a day in the "fat burning zone" on an elliptical.

"dont do Insanity, your not fit enough for that."
this advice was given by a woman who is lazy and fat and failed to finish the first week of insanity. I am not fat, I am not lazy and I am perfecly capable of doing a cardio intense workout.
another great piece of advice was
"eat right before working out, it will help you digest it better"
actually, eating before woking out makes me throw up. thanks though.

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.

If you own a purse or use a large hair dryer, then you already lift more then that weight every day. If 3 lbs is to heavy for them so is lifting purses, babies, doors, chairs, pans, laundry, having 'fun' in something other then starfish position etc. Trying to do less is not going to do anything. I am seriously the weakest person I know and can lift much much more then 3 lbs without hurting myself (I bench 40lbs...ask all the weight lifters, they'll laugh). My spine is out of place and I have arthritis. My body has done nothing but improve since I started lifting heavier things then my bookbag to help lift my bookbag. I understand where she's coming from though. The advertising and the media has women (and men) thinking some pretty stupid ill informed things that don't make any sense at all. If I wasn't surrounded by that I probably would have started lifting things or doing body weight exercises a lot sooner. It's fun being able to leap over fences and balance on balls because you can carry yourself easily.

Having strength, its a beautiful thing for the body and mind.

Stay in a calorie deficit to lose weight.

That's how weight is lost.

"All you have to do to lose weight is give up soda and stop eating after 6 pm."

If it were that easy, wouldn't we all be so stoked!

well if you're drinking a LOT of soda it can make a huge difference. A friend of mine lost 80 pounds and all she did was change out Pepsi for water. She was drinking a ton of the stuff though.

I think stopping eating at a certain time is BS though.

The advertising and the media has women (and men) thinking some pretty stupid ill informed things that don't make any sense at all. If I wasn't surrounded by that I probably would have started lifting things or doing body weight exercises a lot sooner. It's fun being able to leap over fences and balance on balls because you can carry yourself easily.

I don't think the fitness/diet industry wants us to know how to do it properly. If we ALL know proper fitness, they can't gouge us for dieting/fitness products.

The advertising and the media has women (and men) thinking some pretty stupid ill informed things that don't make any sense at all. If I wasn't surrounded by that I probably would have started lifting things or doing body weight exercises a lot sooner. It's fun being able to leap over fences and balance on balls because you can carry yourself easily.

I don't think the fitness/diet industry wants us to know how to do it properly. If we ALL know proper fitness, they can't gouge us for dieting/fitness products.

But you'd think someone would benefit by telling the truth...I mean how many boxed 1-5lb weight sets have been bought and thrown away and bashed publicly and sold for cheap? They get bad media, the second person who picked up the weights doesn't benefit the company...If they were like *here do this and it will work* and it works...wouldn't everyone want those things and they'd benefit more? I wish the Olympic Weights people were better at advertising...I'd be able to find more then one oly bar in the whole city :P It's slim pickings at the fitness center here...you'd figure they'd be able to sell more of something that works...

Eat less fat (vitamins are fat soluble)
Eat more then 400g in carbs (um but then I need to eat less of the essential nutrients?
Eat less protein (protein preserves muscle mass, I want to get ridd of fat, not what little muscle I have)
Exercise less so you don't gain girth (exercisse depletes glycogen, so yes, when you stop, it comes back, that's a good thing)
strength training makes you bulk up (then why have I lost inches everywhere? On a calorie deficit, you're not going to gain all over mass...that doesn't make sense? Muscle is denser then fat, how can shrinking things make you bulkier?)

Would you even be able to eat anything else if you aimed for 400g of carbs a day? That seems like an incredibly high number to me.

Exactly I don't get the low protein low fat diets some people sputter on about. I was on another forum earlier and a girl didn't want to eat. She gave no info on her diet other then she hardly eats and they told her to eat less fat and more carbs for her hormones...that are regulated by actually absorbing nutrients via fat I would imagine... I was like wut?

Don't lift heavy weights, only do cardio...so I took that advice and could NEVER get my big thighs, butt, and hips down for 43 years of my life. Finally, did heavy, especially legs and made it from a size 16 into a size 6 (within 4 months). Never had thighs, butt, and hips this small and tight!!! Yes, to heavy weights!!!!