MYTH #1:  I can "spot reduce", losing fat only in the hips by doing specific exercises such as lunges or squats.
 

TRUTH:  Fat will be lost throughout the whole body when one is losing weight.  One exercise cannot cause one to lose fat only in one spot.

MYTH #2:  I don't need to lift heavy weights since I only want to "tone up". I should use a body sculpting routine to do this.

TRUTH:  There is no such thing as "toning up".  Look in any physiology textbook and you will not find an official term called toning up.  The term "toning up" is simply without fat.  In other words, when there is no fat covering a muscle, the shape of the muscle is more apparent and pleasing to the eye.  This is what is meant when one uses the term "tone up".

MYTH #3:  I should perform cardiovascular exercise or aerobic exercise to lose weight.

TRUTH:  Strength training is actually the most effective and efficient form of exercise for burning calories and losing fat weight.  Due to the double reducing effect from strength training (burn calories while training and burn calories at a faster rate while resting because every pound of muscle burns between 40-50 calories per day in order to maintain that pound of new muscle).

MYTH #4:  Strength training makes women look big and bulky (bulked up).

TRUTH:  Due to the lack of the hormone Testosterone in great enough quantity, women will have a very hard time adding great amounts of muscle mass.  Any woman who says she is bulking up, simply needs to eat fewer calories as she is strength training and she will quickly see her inches and fat levels reduce.  If any woman thinks she is bulking, I can assure her that it is not muscle, but rather fat that is being pushed put.

MYTH #5:  I will burn more fat by performing lower intensity exercise (i.e., slow jogging or light weight strength exercises).

TRUTH: Higher intensity exercise will always burn more calories and ultimately more fat calories that slow steady state exercise. Higher intensity exercise also will show greater improvement in one's blood chemistry ultimately improving one's overall health.