How many of these five fitness mistakes have you made?

Myth 1: Doing exercise on weekends

Just as people cannot eat one meal and skip the next, the same goes for exercise. For example, some people like to use the weekends to concentrate on fitness to make up for the lack of regular exercise. Fitness experts point out that being too lazy to exercise will harm the body, and concentrated exercise will also harm the body, which is tantamount to overeating.

Just imagine, if you sit in the office for the first 5 days of the week with little exercise, your body has actually adapted to this state. Suddenly taking a lot of time to concentrate on exercising on the weekend will disrupt the physiological and body balance that has been established, and the consequences will be worse than not exercising.

Therefore, the scientific and effective approach is to exercise 3 to 5 times a week. When you are busy with work and don’t have time to exercise, you should at least move your body after meals. Exercise should be done in a steady manner.

Myth 2: Exercise + diet = good figure

Many women already know how to use scientific and healthy methods to control their weight, but some still have some misunderstandings about weight loss. For example, while exercising, you ignore nutritional supplements and just blindly control your diet.

Experts point out that controlling diet is necessary, but if you only focus on exercise without paying attention to nutritional supplements, it will cause harm to your body. The human body needs a certain amount of calories and nutrition every day to maintain functioning. Women also need to compensate for menstrual losses, so a minimum amount of calories and nutrition must be guaranteed.

Otherwise, if the human body performs high-intensity exercise without long-term replenishment, it will cause a decrease in immunity and diseases will take advantage of the situation to invade.

Myth 3: Aerobics is a woman’s thing

There are usually two areas in the gym that "keep their distance from each other". The equipment training area is occupied by men, while aerobics is reserved for women. Many men always think that "aerobics is a woman's thing, a bit effeminate, and that exercising with equipment is a man's thing."

Actually, it is not. Fitness coaches believe that men prefer machine training mainly because they feel that it can increase strength and improve body shape. However, machine training cannot improve cardiopulmonary function and enhance body flexibility and coordination. Therefore, it is recommended that men should combine machine training with aerobic exercises to achieve complementary effects.

Myth 4: Muscles need to be trained every day

Nowadays, some young people are very crazy about bodybuilding. In order to build beautiful muscles, they practice in the gym all day long. In fact, the key to growing muscles is to "strengthen and relax in moderation".

Muscle training consumes a lot of nutrients. After exercise, the nutrients in the muscles will be replenished after proper rest, and the amount replenished will be more than what is consumed. This phenomenon is called "super recovery" in physiology.

"Super recovery" allows muscles to obtain more nutrients, making them more developed with more training. Some studies have shown that rest time is calculated based on the time it takes for muscles to regain their last exercise capacity, which generally takes 2 to 3 days.

Myth 5: More exercise is more effective

Appropriate exercise and fitness training can help enhance the body's immune system, but excessive exercise can have the opposite effect.

Medical experts point out that low-intensity and intermittent exercise can have a positive impact on health. Therefore, doing low-intensity exercise every day is not only good for your health, but also can reduce the risk of heart attack.

Excessive exercise will only cause adverse effects on the body, such as muscle spasms, stiffness, and strain. In severe cases, it can also cause fractures, sports-induced anemia, and even sudden death. Therefore, exercisers can consult a fitness coach to choose the appropriate amount of exercise.