Here are 33 of the Top 100 bodybuilding, fitness and strength training myths.
1) To make muscle grow, you have to stay in the 8 – 12 rep range.
2) Only low-rep sets work for building strength.
3) There is an ideal ratio of protein, fat and carbohydrate.
4) Even to gain mass, you need an ultra-precise diet and have to weigh your food.
5) Bodybuilders aren’t strong.
6) Powerlifters have no muscles.
7) Powerlifters are all fat.
8) To be strong, powerlifters have to be fat and overweight.
9) There is one true, magical training system.
10) Muscles grow fast if you follow the programs of professional bodybuilders.
11) 5×5 programs are only for building strength.
12) Eating too much fat is exactly what makes you fat.
13) Eating cholesterol is what raises your cholesterol.
14) Eating meat causes heart disease, high cholesterol, heart attacks and high blood pressure.
15) Every gym trainer knows how to make your muscles grow.
16) When structuring your workouts, you should rely only on scientific arguments.
17) When tracking your nutrition, you should trust only scientific studies.
18) Supplements work only if they have been scientifically studied and proven.
19) All supplement manufacturers are the work of the devil.
20) All supplements are the work of the devil and pointless.
21) All supplements are useless.
22) The beneficial effects of all supplements are invented lies.
23) You have to keep surprising your muscles all the time.
24) Mike Mentzer was normal.
25) Joe Weider was a guru.
26) You absolutely must change your training program every 8 – 12 weeks.
27) You have to eat every 2.5 – 3 hours or you’ll die.
28) The body adapts to heavy weights progressively.
29) It is possible to completely master squat technique.
30) It is possible to completely master deadlift technique.
31) It is possible to completely master pressing technique.
32) Skip LaCour has always been natural.
33) Steroids are the work of the devil through and through.
Author: Janar Rückenberg (translation)
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