Fitness Introduction

Revision as of 08:32, 28 January 2008

Everything you know about fitness is wrong. All those lessons in nutrition at school, those info-mercials on TV selling you ab products, any diet book you have ever read, are all wrong. If you are serious about changing your body composition then you must forget all that you have learned and teach yourself. The internet is packed with a lot of good information, hopefully this is just a starting point.

Misconceptions

My personal trainer knows what they are talking about

Most personal trainers know less than you will after reading a little bit about fitness in general. Personal Trainers go through very little actual training and only know as much as they are willing to learn. If a personal trainer ever recommends using machines before moving to free weights, walk away. If a personal trainer is not willing to show you how to deadlift, walk away.

You may find a personal trainer who knows what they're talking about. You'll have found one in a million, they do exist, but they are hard to find. If you get a free session with a personal trainer and they are not willing to show you particular excersizes, or contradict what you have taught yourself about nutrition, excersize or general fitness, walk away, they'll be wasting your time and if you start paying them, sucking away your money.

Machines are better than free weights

Free weights are dangerous

Lifting weights will make women bulky

I'm skinny and skinny is healthy

I'm too old/fat to lift weights

I'm too poor to join a gym

Gyms are full of roid freaks

I don't want to look like a condom full of walnuts