3 Horrible Fitness Magazine Lies You’re Probably Following

How many times have you picked up a fitness magazine and found articles inside that claimed to build massive amounts of muscle or burn body fat instantly overnight? If you fell for those fitness magazines' lies, you’re not alone. Millions of others have followed what was written in the text exactly, and the only thing they were left with was frustration.

In this article, we will look at three horrible fitness magazine lies that you’re probably following or at least have tried in the past and why they never work.

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1. Any Fad Diet

The first on our list of fitness magazine lies are fad or trendy diets. While I’m not going to break every single one down (the length would resemble a novel), I’m going to explain why they never work over the long term.

Trying a new diet may work initially, but eventually, you’ll hit a plateau or find yourself going back to your old habits. Why is this? It’s because most fad diets are not sustainable or match the lifestyle many live.

Eliminating things like all carbs or all fat from a diet is not something many people can do for very long. Yet, the goals of such diets are all the same — to put you in a caloric deficit.

A better idea would be to use a free app like MyFitnessPal and track your nutrition. Numbers don’t lie. If you put yourself in a caloric deficit, you’re going to lose weight. Weight loss is a game of numbers. Eat less than your maintenance, and you’ll start seeing the number on the scale go down in most cases. 

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2. Celebrity Workouts

Choose your favorite celebrity, and you’ve probably found yourself following their workout in hopes of achieving similar results. This is yet another one of the fitness magazine lies many find themselves in. 

Here’s the reality… There is no single workout that’s going to provide everyone with the same results. The same can be said about diets. 

If you want to achieve success through your workouts, be consistent and work on progressively overloading the muscle, which is where you try to push yourself harder each and every workout. That can mean adding reps, sets, or weight to exercises each week. 

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3. Miracle Supplements

One of the biggest letdowns and most common of all the fitness magazine lies deals with supplements. I’m not here to say they don’t work, but I will say they don’t work miracles. 

A supplement is exactly that — a supplement. It should never replace a solid nutrition plan or workout program. Can they be helpful in fast-tracking your results? Absolutely! However, the marketing of many products in magazines is extremely misleading and overhyped. As they say, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

What supplements should you start with? The staples should include a multivitamin, protein powder, and fish oil. From there, you can branch out into things like creatine, amino acids, fat burners, testosterone boosters, vitamin D, etc., according to your individual goals.

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