There are a lot of myths circulating when it comes to weight training.  We will go on through several myths and tell you why they are what they are: myths without any bearing of truth whatsoever.

One common myth is that while you are doing weight training, you can eat anything you want in any amount without building fat because you are burning calories.  It is true that weight training will help increase your metabolism; hence you burn calories even while you are at rest.  Still, there is a catch.  The amount of calories you take in must be in direct proportion with the rate of your physical activity.  If you are taking in 3000 calories a day but burning only 2500 with your weight training, you will still gain fat.  Always check what you eat for excess of anything will cause health problems.

Your muscles will grow in direct proportion with the amount of workout you do.  Regretfully, this myth must be busted.  A lot of weight trainers think that in order to build muscle quickly, they need to do heavy weight training every single day of the week for the whole month of the entire year.  Experts will tell you that you need rest periods to help your body develop mass.  While you are working out, you are causing micro-tears in your muscle fibers.  Your muscles increase in size for your system will compensate by repairing these micro-tears.  This now results to muscle hypertrophy.  On the other side of the spectrum, if you do heavy weight training everyday, you will not give your body enough time to heal those micro-tears.  The result will be muscle wasting that will make your workout seem useless.  Give your muscle time to heal by spacing weight training 3 times in a week.

Pain indicates gain.  There are those that believe that they must feel sore during a workout for it indicates that they are building muscle.  On the contrary, you will feel sore at the first few weeks of weight training because you are not used to the activity.  Eventually, your body will reach its threshold and will cease to become sore.  A problem that some athletes encounter is that every pain is perceived as production of lactic acid.  They will then push themselves endlessly in the presence of intense pain, without realizing that they are actually causing injury to their muscular system.  This can predispose them to degenerative disorders earlier compared to others who know how to limit weight training.

Some people believe that you must have those expensive, complicated, futuristic, modern –looking monstrosities of equipments to be able to have the perfect set of workouts to manipulate the most of their muscles.  It may be true that those equipments will help you do weight training.  What is not true is that you need them to do your workout.  A set of weights with the proper set of exercises will help you achieve the same set of workout without having to spend thousands of dollars in a machine.

Do not let these myths hold you back in your weight training.  Proper diet, proper bio-mechanics, and spacing of training will help you achieve your goal in weight training in the best time possible.

Workouts that involve weights P90x, Tony Horton’s Power 90, and ChaLean Extreme.