2. Weights and expensive gym equipment are necessary for
resistance training exercises While free weights and other
gym equipment are necessary to speed up your progress,
they are not necessarily the only things that you can use to
build muscles. There are a variety of ways that you can build
muscle and some of them include: resistance bands, bar
method, Pilate's, using your own body weight and isometric
training.
There are many programs for resistance training that do
not use any equipment yet they help people to achieve
excellent results.
3. When you grow old you cannot build muscle. This is not
true because studies show that even people who are 70
years old can build muscle. In addition, people who are in
their 50's or even 40's can be able to build adequate muscle
mass with just a few training sessions per week.
4. Resistance training requires hours and hours of training
per day This takes the crown for being the biggest
misconception about resistance training that can help boost
your metabolism.
Experts believe that as long as you eat a healthy well
balanced diet and you do not have any diseases, you will only
need about 20 minutes to half an hour sessions per week for
you to realize results.
It is not the hours that you spend at the gym training but it is
how often you do them and how hard you push your body. It
has been established that when you add even a pound of