Fun Fact Friday: Did you know that your muscles cannot turn to fat when you stop exercising regularly?

It’s true- they can’t.

Why, you ask?!  Because muscle and fat are two separate and distinct tissues.  There is no physical capability to change from one to the other.

No way Jose!

With muscles, you either “use it, or lose it!”  When you’re not using muscle, it will literally just waste away.  When that happens, it’s called atrophy.

Here’s a good example for you:
Think about someone who wears a cast on a broken leg/ arm.  When the cast has been removed, the leg or arm that’s been unused will be smaller than they were before.  If it was true that muscle turned to fat from not being used, you’d see  a fatter leg or arm after removing the cast- that isn’t the case, though.

With that being said, don’t let those muscles waste away!

It’s Friday and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Is Losing Weight Extremely Difficult?

Let’s set this straight.

Losing the weight (for most) is pretty easy.  Once you get going, you’re golden.
The most difficult part about this process- the weight off.

Studies show that 75%-90% of dieters who lose weight will actually regain the weight they dropped within 1-3 years of fully “completing” the diet.  Faster is not better.

Exercising regularly and maintaining healthy eating is a great way to keep the weight you worked so hard to lose, off of your body.  Once you reach the weight you desire, or the “look” you desire, doesn’t mean that you should go right back to old ways. Treat yourself once a weak to a cheat meal (because it is okay every so often to let loose) then for the remainder of the week, keep to your schedule of eating healthy & working out.

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I do understand it’s extremely frustrating to have to wait to get to your goal weight; however, the work that you put into your body and your health will show.  Give it the time to do so!  While your body is changing, so are your systems!  It does take time and some don’t have that patience, but how about you make that something to improve in your life as well?

I’ll repeat this again… because it’s so true:

YOU’LL GAIN THE WEIGHT BACK AS FAST AS YOU LOST IT.  Don’t look toward the “faster” route for weight loss- It. Takes. Time.

Myth Busting Monday: Do you really lose more body fat if you make yourself sweat more?

You hear that all the time, don’t you?

 “If you wear sweats and make yourself soaked in your own sweat, that means you’ll lose weight much quicker…. “

Eh… Yes and no….. Here’s what happens:

Well, it does make sense that when you exercise in a rubberized suit or sweats you will indeed sweat more; however, any “weight loss” you experience after your workout isn’t from losing fat, it’s actually from losing water within your body.
After your workout, you’re going to want to eat or drink and as soon as you begin to replenish your body fluid stores, those pounds you had lost from “sweating it out” will return almost as fast as they had left! 

Please keep in mind that while wearing rubber suits and sweats to drop numbers on the scale… there is a slight potential danger- heat injury.
This happens when exercising too vigorously in extreme heat…or purposely wearing clothes that will make you sweat profusely.  Keep in mind that you aren’t a super human and can’t control what’s happening inside of your body like you can control what you’re putting on your body to workout in.  Working out in these conditions keep you from being able to safely control your internal temperature (or core) by preventing the sweat you keep producing to evaporate.

There are so many reasons why someone is perspiring…

• temperature
• humidity
• lack of conditioning
• body composition
• individual variability

Don’t measure the amount of sweat to how much energy you’re expending during your workout.

Just be mindful what you’re wearing and adjust to the weather and stay hydrated! We are all built differently, and with that being said…we all sweat differently! Sometimes I go through an entire workout and I’m not drenched in sweat like I am for other days I have worked out… but the next couple of days I know I worked hard because my body is surely telling me!

Don’t tell yourself, “If I don’t sweat a lot and my shirt isn’t soaked at the end of the workout… I must not have worked out hard”

That isn’t always the case…at all.

Please share this with your friends!
Thanks for taking the time to read my post! I’m almost finished with my courses to become a personal trainer and I’m getting very excited! I can’t wait to begin my job!
I hope that this gave you some good tips.  I really enjoy sharing what I learn with you all!
I’m going to be doing Myth Busting Monday every Monday so that way you can continue to learn with me!

Have a great night, everyone!!