5 COMMON GYM MYTHS 🔐 🔹Soreness isn’t a measure of how good your session was. Being sore the next day doesn’t mean a good workout. Often being sore is due to your body trying something new. (Hence why alot of beginners will feel sore for pretty much anything new they do). This soreness is known as DOMS (delayed onset of muscle soreness). It’s NOT a measure of how hard you worked. More damage doesn’t equal more gains. 🔹Lifting heavy makes you bulky. I wish this were true. Because I’d be a hench mofo right now. You have to create an environment to build muscle. For example eating in a calorie surplus (this is when calories that we consume are higher than the calories we burn). Applying the progressive overload principle for a long enough period of time to expose your body to a new stimulus. Making sure your recovery is suitable and lots of other factors. Lifting heavy alone will NOT make you big. 🔹That you need to end every session breathless and sweaty for it to be a good workout. Yes we all love to get a sweat on, but again it doesn’t determine a successful session. Some people sweat more than others. And if your training conditions are warmer, then you’ll most likely sweat more. Don’t use sweat as a measure of how good the workout was. 🔹You can target losing body fat. False! The body will lose fat from where it wants to first. Usually from where the body has the most fat stores. What you can do is create the stimulus of your choice of movement and control the calories you intake. 🔹To work and strengthen the core you need to perform 100s of crunches and sit ups. There are lots of more effective ways to challenge the core. Firstly, lifting heavy with correct form will utilise your core muscles. Make sure your perform a mix of core exercise that challenge you to brace, rotate, anti-rotate and flex the spine. Hope this helps. Catch you soon 👊