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DIE DIE DIE!!!

shmerek
shmerek Posts: 963 Member
edited February 25 in Chit-Chat
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.
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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    1200 calories.
  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
    Everything that you said. I'd expand on the first one, though.

    1. Cardio for "toning"
    1200 calories.

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  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    If you eat less your body will hold on to fat.
  • DymonNdaRgh40
    DymonNdaRgh40 Posts: 661 Member
    No eating after 8p.m.

    Calories can't tell time.
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    "Female lifters should fear getting bulky." -I would like to take an axe to this one. DIE! :smile:
  • kimothy38
    kimothy38 Posts: 840 Member
    Females shouldn't lift heavy weights because they will end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • branflakes1980
    branflakes1980 Posts: 2,516 Member
    Starvation Mode.
  • fozzie500
    fozzie500 Posts: 177 Member
    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.
  • happysquidmuffin
    happysquidmuffin Posts: 651 Member
    Bread goes straight to your belly-fat!
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    Carbs make you fat.----NO!
  • HardyGirl4Ever
    HardyGirl4Ever Posts: 1,017 Member
    That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.
  • JGonzo82
    JGonzo82 Posts: 167 Member
    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.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.

    It is. :flowerforyou:
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    No eating after 8p.m.

    Calories can't tell time.

    They can't. :flowerforyou:
    I eat after 8pm most days. :ohwell:
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    I wore an HRM and it said I burned 8430 calories while gardening in my back yard. Do you think it's accurate?
  • Erin_goBrahScience
    Erin_goBrahScience Posts: 1,215 Member
    Oh man, I thought this was an Avett Brothers thread:grumble:
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Females shouldn't lift heavy weights because they will end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Overnight....
  • plumsparkle
    plumsparkle Posts: 203 Member
    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!!
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    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 weightloss
  • ElusivePete
    ElusivePete Posts: 50 Member
    My favourite one I heard recently:

    Female lifters can avoid getting bulky by using a narrow grip.
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    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 :angry: .
  • Fiercely_Me
    Fiercely_Me Posts: 481 Member
    If you've gained 5 pounds in a week it's probably muscle. :sad:

    I wish!
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    1. Lemon water
    2. Starvation mode
    3. Any and all foods labeled as "bad"
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    1. Gaining muscle while in a consistent calorie deficit.
    2. That consumption of any particular food directly increases weight loss.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    When people with 100lbs to go tell the people who are lean as hell that they are eating the wrong stuff...
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
    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.
  • skeo
    skeo Posts: 471 Member
    "To burn fat, lift light weights for at least 20-30 reps" fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..I want this logic to die! :explode:
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    That artificial sweetener is perfectly fine, or good for you as some think.

    This is not a myth.
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    Wait, I follow all of these, religiously.
  • MuscleAndMascara
    MuscleAndMascara Posts: 1,260 Member
    you can eat whatever you want as long as you work out.
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