Topic: Fitness myths.

[Caffiene]

The next problem is her bad knee excuse. We do mostly lunges and squats and she won't participate in leg workouts for fear of making her knee worse. I am also certain proper technique (and no weight) in either of these exercises will do her a world of good.

Tell her instead of avoiding leg exercise, she should go to a physio and get extra leg exercises.

[Plastique]

This article is hilarious.  It's for the lady lifters, which I'm working on becoming.


http://www.stumptuous.com/lies-in-the-gym

Thank you.

I have been weight lifting and swimming (occasionally running) with a male coworker, and good friend of mine, for about 3 months now.  A lady in the my office I can't stand has recently started inviting herself with us to the gym. She is about 40 lbs overweight and refuses to push herself at the gym for a variety of reasons. Mostly because she doesn't want to get huge muscles and it is driving me crazy. She usually starts with the lightest weight a machine will go to and then keeps it there for every set. My lifting buddy wants her to keep going with us for the hope that it will improve her health problems (she has a couple because of her weight), and I agree. But I need to keep knocking down her excuses and rid her of her bad habits.

The next problem is her bad knee excuse. We do mostly lunges and squats and she won't participate in leg workouts for fear of making her knee worse. I am also certain proper technique (and no weight) in either of these exercises will do her a world of good.

Ugh, nothing worse than someone like that being on a piece of equipment you want to use. Thing is, they'd get basically the same benefit from standing beside it watching you use it.

[Plastique]

Rather then starting a new thread that Lonely Moa will hijack I will just put this here.

I have always heard number five, and have always questioned it. It is good to see that negative calories don't exist, although I would like a better citation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-504763_162-57413337-10391704/why-calories-count-10-common-myths-busted/?pageNum=6&tag=next

Here's what Snopes says.

[pandamonium]

I hurt my knee badly enough to need physical therapy. You know what they do when you're in physical thereapy? They make you exercise. Building up the muscle architecture, as I remember it was explained to me, helps support the knee. I still do the stretching exercises, if not the exercise exercises. For one, I don't own a trampoline. For another, I walk and bike enough at work.

[lonely moa]

I hurt my knee badly enough to need physical therapy. You know what they do when you're in physical thereapy? They make you exercise. Building up the muscle architecture, as I remember it was explained to me, helps support the knee. I still do the stretching exercises, if not the exercise exercises. For one, I don't own a trampoline. For another, I walk and bike enough at work.

The exercisises they prescribe often are aimed at developing muscle groups that won't be helped much or at all by walking or cycling.  Like rebuilding one's vastus medialus, or as I have recently learned, the supraspinatus.

[lonely moa]

Rather then starting a new thread that Lonely Moa will hijack I will just put this here.

I have always heard number five, and have always questioned it. It is good to see that negative calories don't exist, although I would like a better citation.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-504763_162-57413337-10391704/why-calories-count-10-common-myths-busted/?pageNum=6&tag=next

a bit presumptive, imho. 

[AQB24712]

I hurt my knee badly enough to need physical therapy. You know what they do when you're in physical thereapy? They make you exercise. Building up the muscle architecture, as I remember it was explained to me, helps support the knee. I still do the stretching exercises, if not the exercise exercises. For one, I don't own a trampoline. For another, I walk and bike enough at work.

Panda, do they want you to run or jump on one of those little exercise trampolines that are about eight-ish inches off the floor?  (I have one that I jog on, much to the consternation of my cat.)  If so, maybe they have one to lend you, or a medical equipment company might have one to rent.

[pandamonium]

I hurt my knee badly enough to need physical therapy. You know what they do when you're in physical thereapy? They make you exercise. Building up the muscle architecture, as I remember it was explained to me, helps support the knee. I still do the stretching exercises, if not the exercise exercises. For one, I don't own a trampoline. For another, I walk and bike enough at work.

Panda, do they want you to run or jump on one of those little exercise trampolines that are about eight-ish inches off the floor?  (I have one that I jog on, much to the consternation of my cat.)  If so, maybe they have one to lend you, or a medical equipment company might have one to rent.

Oh, this was last year. But, yeah, it was that kind of trampoline. I think I've seen them for not too expensive at places, but I have no place to keep such a thing. Not with the roommates' dog. The chewy little bastard.