5 Myths about the Fitness Exercises

1. Sport is for professionals. This idea applies onlyonly super-series of fast exercises, which could
in the case of performance sports. The nativeinvolve, directly or indirectly, all the muscles.
qualities required for professional sportsmenAnyway, regular training shouldn't take longer than
(speed, skills, specific height, etc.) can only bean hour and a half. Otherwise, the body will get
developed, they can't be formed by training. Asinto the catabolic faze, when the cortisone
long as the aim of a regular person is notsecretions 'cannibalize' the muscles.
performance, almost all sports can be practiced4. Any type of exercise is good for solving your
for keeping the body in a good shape. It's allproblems. What's true in this refers to some
about dosing the training you chose, so that theparticular cases like excess of adipose tissue. This
benefits are bigger than wear and tear. Even thetissue can be 'melted' by any kind of aerobic
sports considered tough can be practiced in aexercise (running, cycling, swimming) if this is
'soft' way (tae-bo, mini-triathlon, jogging, etc.).continued long enough. Even in these cases it was
2. Training is tiring. This idea is true as long as itclear that some exercises are more effective
refers to consuming all your energy (muscular andthan others. There are situations when only a
hepatic glycogen), but it doesn't mean that trainingcombination of exercises with a certain amount of
gets you into that state of exhaustion whicheach, can provide you with the results you
would slow down the process of recovery of theexpect. More than that, repeating the same
body. Even in performance sports, the purpose isexercise all the time can have as a consequence
to have rather effective than exhausting training,not only losing balance in the antagonist muscles
so that the body can get the stimulationand in the joints involved in training, but also
necessary to qualitative progress from onestopping progress or even regressing.
training to the next.5. You're older? No more exercises! This is true
Even more than in other sports, in fitness theonly if we refer to extremely demanding efforts
sportsman is spared overexerting. However, the(really heavy weights, fast running, jumping, etc.).
training must not become ineffective. People canThere are lots of exercises adapted to different
come to the gym tired after a work day andages. Their purpose is to keep and improve health
leave relaxed (physically and psychologically) andand also to improve physical shape. The
not more tired. This is extremely useful fordevelopment of movement parameters for older
people with sedentary jobs, but also for thosepeople refers especially to muscular and
who make physical effort at work. They couldcardio-vascular resistance as well as mobility of
use the training by choosing a type of effortthe joints. Because the final purpose of training is
meant to compensate the one involved in theirnot preparing for a competition, the exercises can
job.be organized gradually according to their difficulty,
3. Training takes too long. Again, this idea is true ifeliminating the risk of accidents. Because it's based
applied to performance, which can only beon perseverance, fitness can be adapted without
obtained by working a lot. But also in this caseproblems for older people and even for people
short and very intense training or training forsuffering from different affections specific to old
relaxation and recovery are often performed. Inage.
fitness, you can get to 20-minute training, working