Top 10 don’ts for weight loss and muscle gain October 1
Nowadays many people start to train on the gym to gain a general fitness or build some muscles, but some of them lack the knowledge that is needed to train correctly. But sole training will do no good if you eat fast food without needed nutritions.
Here are 10 tips that I have found on the net that will tell you what you should NOT do while exercising.
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1. Don’t wait with starting to exercise and introducing a diet
There won’t be “a better time for it” nor will you “find the best training program / diet”. There is no ideal time, as well as there is no diet / training plan that will work forever. Postponing won’t change anything, start NOW, time is running out!
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2. Don’t hurry! Do NOT start a training plan that you are not ready for
Exercising more than your body can stand will give the opposite results. Moreover, if you will increase weights slowly, your training goals will prevail and you won’t get discouraged.
3. Don’t change everything at once
The road from laziness and eating junk food to intensive exercises and healthy diet is long. Don’t try to change everything the next day, it will result in failure. Start with trainings and gradually change your eating habits.
4. Don’t exercise only when you have willingness for it
Training and healthy diet should become an integral part of your life and day plan, so you can stick to it. If you will exercise and eat properly only when you want to, you won’t have to wait long to see that you stopped doing any exercises and your diet is long forgotten.
5. Don’t expect to have results as in commercials
Don’t trust that some kind of training plan, a supplement or a device will give you the results you dream of, in a month. Working on your body is a hard job that lasts months or even years. It’s better to know this in the beginning than give up after two weeks because of minor results.
6. Don’t be a slave to one plan
Because no training program is perfect, sooner or later every plan stops working. You should gain knowledge about dieting and exercising, while looking at training programs created by different people. Try to find the similarities between them (not the differences). There is a great possibility that the “thing” recommended by many experts from various training/dieting schools, will work. Don’t trust in an unique, catchy “thingy” that is suggested by only one guru that probably reads to many cheap e-books.
7. Don’t waste your time and energy
If you want to have results, you don’t have to train two hours every day. More not always means better. In the majority of cases a three days a week with 30 to 45 minutes of training will be enough (especially in the first few months). It is more important how much work you do in a period of time than how long you do it.
8. Don’t do the unknown
Don’t start to perform exercise that you are not familiar with, do not swallow supplements when you don’t know how they work, don’t start a diet about which you have small knowledge. First get to know it, then try it.
9. Don’t overtrain your muscles
At least not when you are a beginner. Until you learn the correct technique for each exercises and increase your strength, always leave 1 or 2 repetitions in reserve. (If you want to know you shouldn’t overtrain read Overtraining in Sport
10. Don’t relay on supplements
Every nutrient that comes from a normal meal consisting of natural products is better and more healthier than ANY artificial supplement. Don’t be fooled by commercials that show great bodies of bodybuilders gained presumably by using this supplement. It is always a lie, bodybuilders either “create” their bodies by eating the right food or by using illegal boosters. Supplements can be used only when you have good diet and results, and only to tune your diet better. In the beginning the best supplement you can get is FOOD, as natural as you can get.
