21 Fitness Tips For Beginner. Everyone Needs to Know. Today, we’re going to do Q & A’s that I love to do because I’m getting so many good questions for beginners really need to know about this. I get a few weird ones every once in a while as well, but, you know, hopefully today we’ll be able to Bust a few myths and, um, give you guys some good answers to good questions.
All right, let’s get into it.
1. “For all body types, a low carb diet is the most effective. True or false?”
Well, false. There’s no evidence that are supporting that, you know, a low carb diet would be better than a high carb diet. So. Um, as long as you eat enough protein, you eat your veggies.
Then you should know that ‘fat and carbohydrates’ are both sources of energy for the body. It’s possible to eat a mix of these foods, or some may prefer a higher carb, lower fat diet, or the other way around. So whatever fitness tips works for you, but. No, that’s false.
2. “Will running melt my muscles?
No, it won’t. Running frequently may lead to a decrease in muscle mass, which could be true in some cases. If you engage in extensive running, you may experience a reduction in muscle mass.
If you don’t have enough fuel in your body and you’re, let’s say, run long distance, your body will.
Send out a signal to your brain that, Oh, we don’t have enough fuel to feed all this muscles. Uh, we better shrink them. So you will kill some muscle mass over time. If you do too much long distance running without having the fuel in your body.
So that is the answer to that fitness tips question. You have the option to sprint, run a 5k, or engage in long distance running. As you fuel up favorite superset. Well, first of all, the superset means moving from one exercise to another without taking a break. My favorite is superset, but I’m not a big fan of super setting.. But I do like to superset arms. So I’ll go from exercising my biceps to exercising my triceps without a break. So yeah, that’s my answer.
3. “Do hormones influence workouts and nutrition?”
Without going too deep on hormones, I would say yes. Hormones can affect your, your ability to build muscle mass, gain or lose fat and, Overall, how are you feeling?
4. “If I can’t go to a gym for personal reason, what equipment should I purchase at the first place??”
Well, that’s an excellent fitness tips question. I would say it will depends on your goal. It technically depends on who you are and what you want to achieve on your body. I think it’s good to get, maybe a bench, some free weights. And something you need that can help you, work your back and shoulders. The most difficult part of doing intense weight exercises is having the right equipment, like dumbbells and a bench.
5. “My knee hurts when I’m jumping. What exercise can I do to stabilize the joint?”
We have no idea what’s going on in your knee. So it’s not always necessary to stabilize your joint. You should look for a doctor who can assist you as soon as possible in my opinion.
Visit a professional or a doctor who can accurately diagnose what’s the issue with your knee. And this is super common that people think that if something hurts, that they need to rehab it right away or do a certain type of exercise to stabilize and build it up, but. Now, see a professional.
6. “Is too much coffee bad for our health or fitness?”
Well, 47 cups of coffee is too much per day. just kidding. Well, you can drink a whole lot of coffee. There’s a lot of health benefits to coffee. And, there’s some scientific proof, on that as well that it prevents. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, helps with former various forms of cancer.
And it also shields your liver. Just make sure to drink enough water because it can be a little, little dehydrating with coffee. And yeah, if, some people don’t handle coffee, well at all, they, you know, if you get too jittery, I wouldn’t drink that much, but personally, I drink coffee. Like eight cups a day and I, I’m fine.
7. “Is it necessary to wear a belt when lifting? Do we make less progress with it?”
In my experience for fitness tips, the guys and girls who are getting injured are the ones wearing a belt. You’re not getting injured while wearing the belt, but when you walk in the stairs or you’re lifting something up and I’m going to tell you why.
So I’m not wearing a belt and I’m dead lifting. That means My whole body is switched on working together. As soon as you put that belt on, I’m going to, you know, disconnect that body part. My legs are working. My upper body might be working, but my core is not firing and it’s not activated. Guess what happens when I take everything off and I go to lift that box up?
Exactly. So, if you don’t need to wear a belt, don’t do it. Some people do it to be able to lift heavier. And, Yeah, that might be working for them. I suggest if you don’t have to wear a belt, please don’t.
8. “What type of beer or alcohol drink would be okay with everyday life?” I love this fitness tips question.
You need to listen to me now. When you decide to have a beer or glass of wine, drink whatever you like. It’s better to drink whatever you like and not drink all the time instead of going with a vodka, soda, lime and drink a lot or excessive of them or every day.
So maybe I would say if you need to drink something that’s not as good as you want it to be, because it’s healthier, probably drinking too much.
9. “Is walking combined with healthy diet enough to be healthy?
Well, that’s an excellent fitness tips question. I would say if you eat healthy, that means you are pretty healthy. Walking is also healthy for you, but I do think you need more than walking. that’s not really going to work your upper body. It’s not going to work your heart that much.
So I would say walking can be overrated. Sometimes it can also be underrated many times. So it is healthy to walk and to eat healthy, but you probably need something more as well. Get a good lift in once or twice a week.
10. “Do you burn more fat with exercise? High intensity interval training before or after a workout?
Well, I would say you should burn about the same amount. I think the important thing is what the high intensity interval training will do to you. What I like to do before my training, because it warms me up and it prepares me for my strength session. And some people think that it makes them tired and they can’t lift that much.
So you need to figure out what works for you, but, I’m a big fan of shorter intervals, not overdoing them. So it never affects me. It just warms me up and it prepares me for, for my strength session that comes after. So, to burn more fat doesn’t matter. You can do them before after, but personally I like to do them before.
11. “Myth. You cannot eat carbs if you want to lose weight. True or false?”
False. You can eat carbs and lose weight. it all comes down to the proportion of macros and your totally calorie intake. So you should eat a certain amount of fat and carbs in a day, one or the other or a combination. And it doesn’t matter if you get them through carbs or fat, you, you will lose weight.
You will lose weight and fell weak if you’re in calorie deficit, which means that you’re eating less than what you’re burning in a day.
12. “Who have better metabolism, women or men, and why?”
It’s highly individual. There are many females that have better metabolism than other men and vice versa, so. It’s highly individual.
13. “How important is cardio? Besides nutrition, what else is most important for weight loss?”
Well, you said it. Nutrition is the most important when it comes to, to losing weight, losing weight means that you’re in a calorie deficit, you’re eating less. Than what you’re burning in a day. Uh, cardio is not super important at all.
It’s all about that calorie deficit. Cardio will help you to burn more. So you know, the difference will be greater and you might lose even more fat in a day. But yeah, cardio is not that important, but it might help you.
14. “How can I have a six pack?”
Well, You go to the store, you go to the bear section and you go to the Michelob Ultra section and you get a six pack. That’s how you do it.
No, kidding. You need to make sure that you get on top of your nutrition. It’s all about nutrition when it comes to losing body fat. We all have a six pack underneath our layer of fat and, Yeah, you could do some, some core work to, to make the, the straight abdominis, the six pack muscle bigger, but it really comes down to nutrition.
15. “Weight training makes thighs bulky, not slender and toned?”
Love that fitness tips question. It’s a big myth. Weight training will not make you bulky. And as a female, it’ is hard to build a lot of muscle mass. So you do get bulky. In the beginning, when you start training, you might feel like you’re getting a little bit bigger because you’re.
Your Muscles will bind a little more fluid, but that will, you know, that will pass. So give it a few weeks and you’ll see a lot of the, the most toned people that I train are lifting a lot, a lot of weights and they do a lot of strength training. So no, weight training will not make you bulky sets and reps.
16. “What’s the most efficient more reps and lower weight or less reps, higher weight?”
Personally, I’m a fan of doing both. Actually, I like the combined. low weight, higher reps and high weights, lower reps, depending on the muscle I’m targeting, which cycle I’m training in. And, yeah, it also depends on if you have preexistent injuries, if you’re a beginner or, or you’re more advanced and a whole lot of other things. So to go back to my answer, both works.
17. “Is it fine to eat pasta instead of rice?”
Yes, it is. I’m not sure why you’re asking that fitness tips question if it’s, about weight loss or just to be healthy. Um, you can eat pasta and be healthy. No problem. same thing with, with losing or gaining weight. you can eat pasta. It’s more a matter of how much you eat of it.
18. “Is it actually bad to do full body workouts every day?”
Well, excellent question. It depends on how many times per week you’re working out. If you work out five days a week, I would recommend to avoid full body workouts. I would maybe if you’re doing twice a week, then, then I would consider it.
So, that’s the answer to that question really depends on how many times you workouts per week you work out. I’m a much bigger fan of targeting each and every muscle, much harder when more sets and reps. And then allow that muscle group to rest the next day while I’m targeting something else. It’s less of a compromise.
19. “A myth. When you are 30 plus you’re. Too old to get fit?”
No, I’ve had 70 year olds who I helped get in awesome shape. No, it’s never too late. It’s it’s you have to adapt obviously, depending on age, how you approach training and attrition. But no, you can get in better shape and you can get in good shape at any age.
20. “You need to train at least 30 minutes for it to be effective?
No. Step into the gym with me for 10 minutes. And I’ll show you.
21. “It’s better to train on an empty stomach. True or false?”
No, it’s not better to train on an empty stomach. Actually, it might even be bad for you if you don’t have enough fuel in your system.
It depends on what you really want to achieve with your workout. If you want to build muscle mass and get stronger, I will make sure to have food in my stomach. You don’t have to eat right before a workout, but you know, within a two hour span before, I would absolutely get some protein in. That’s it. A lot of good questions as you can tell.
Hopefully these fitness tips questions and my answers help some of you out there. Please let me know what you want to see in the future. Comment below. yeah, I don’t know about you but I’m going to go and get my eighth cup of coffee. Good bye.
