10 Exercise Myths and Facts : 7 - If I exercise, I will get where I want to be without changing my diet

7 - If I exercise, I will get where I want to be without changing my diet :

If you think this, you're heading down the wrong path! How would you expect to lose weight, put on muscle, get healthier if you're still eating the same rubbish that helped you gain the weight in the first place?! The idea of exercise and balanced nutrition, is to get you and your body healthier, leaner, and in better condition. What you put into your body will determine this.

Take this example - Look at builders and brick layers etc. Now, doing such a physical job day in, day out, all that lifting, they should have bodies of a greek Adonis? But what do they eat? Fry ups, pasties, crisps, all manufactured foods, and therefore they end up having a belly, high blood pressure, and probably a poor immune system. Let me make this clear, you will only get health and fitness results if you pay attention to your diet. I would go as far to say that weight loss, muscle gain etc is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise. Yep, now you see the need for quality food?

 

👉 10 - Women will get bulky from lifting weights
👉 9 - Carbohydrates make you fat
👉 8 - 2 sets of 15 is all you need for each exercise
👉 7 - If I exercise, I will get where I want to be without changing my diet.
👉 6 - Machines are safer than free weights
👉 5 - Running, or cardio is the way to lose fat.
👉 4 - Targeting specific muscle groups is the best way to lift.
👉 3. You need supplements to get in shape
👉 2. Cutting calories down will help me lose weight
👉 1. Crunches will get rid of your belly fat