When it comes to fitness, fat loss and building muscle there’s information EVERYWHERE but not all of it is accurate, making life a little confusing and hampering your progress. We’ve busted some common myths below to help set you up for success!
❌ "Lifting weights makes you bulky."
✅ Reality: Strength training builds lean muscle, not bulk—especially for the general
population. Muscle takes up less space than fat, making you look leaner, not bigger.
❌ "You can turn fat into muscle."
✅ Reality: Fat and muscle are two different tissues. You lose fat through a calorie
deficit and build muscle through resistance training and adequate protein intake.
❌ "Doing ab exercises will burn belly fat."
✅ Reality: Spot reduction is a myth. Your body loses fat systemically, not just from
the area you train. Focus on full-body strength and nutrition to reveal abs.
❌ "Cardio is the best way to lose fat."
✅ Reality: Strength training boosts metabolism and preserves muscle, making it
more effective long-term for fat loss than just doing cardio alone.
❌ "If the scale isn’t changing, you’re not making progress."
✅ Reality: The scale doesn’t tell the full story. Body composition changes (muscle
gain + fat loss) may not always reflect as weight loss, but you’ll look and feel better.
❌ "Fat turns into muscle when you train, and muscle turns into fat when you stop."
✅ Reality: Fat and muscle can’t transform into each other. If you stop training, you
lose muscle mass, and if you overeat, you gain fat—but they don’t “convert.”
❌ "More sweat = more fat loss."
✅ Reality: Sweat is just water loss, not fat burning. You can sweat a lot and not burn
many calories, and you can burn calories without sweating.
❌ "Eating late at night makes you gain fat."
✅ Reality: Fat gain happens from eating more calories than you burn, not from the
time you eat. Late-night eating only affects fat gain if it pushes you into a surplus.
❌ "High reps with light weights ‘tone’ muscles."
✅ Reality: There’s no such thing as “toning.” You build muscle with progressive
overload and reveal it by lowering body fat. High reps improve endurance but don’t
make muscles “long and lean.”
Hopefully that’s busted some myths, if you have any other questions though don’t
hesitate to speak to the team and we’ll do our best to help!