Not really, you need to build discipline, a work out is, as it’s stated on the name, work. It’s not “enjoy yourself” time, and most of the time it’s painful. So build discipline and do it anyway.
@@karladiaz9076 actually most people who are successful in their fitness journey will tell you it's habit, building a habit makes it easier to continue into your life style, and it's easier to make something a habit when you enjoy it, people who force themselves into restrictive eating and strict workouts very very rarely sustain results because it's unattainable. Workouts do not have to be 'work' I weightlift 5 days a week, because it's the exercise I enjoy
I love the last myth. It goes a bit with “ one salad won’t make you thin and one chocolate bar won’t make you fat”. Everything doesn’t have to be perfect 100% of the time, it’s the consistency that counts the most! Great video Abby, glad that you are making videos again!
I've been lifting for over 20+ years. I tell all my clients that they should grade themselves like in school once every 3 months. What percentage of workouts did you show up to? You're not getting buff with a "D" in bodybuilding
One chocolate bar will give me diarrhea for 2 days though. Is that a good plan for weight loss? Absolutely not. Is it a bonus of lactose intolerance? Absolutely.
If you’re like me and you HATED running and walking on the treadmill for cardio, try dancing. I started just learning choreographies through RU-vid videos. I would record myself and then practice until I perfected the routine. I was a competitive cheerleader for a long time so I had good stamina, but just not for running. I hated just doing one thing and wanted to do more movement, have fun, and have the time fly by. With dance you can see your progress. You can see how good you get on picking up moves and the rhythm. I benefit from this because I am also a musician. Just this past week alone I have lost 3 lbs after a break from a broken foot. You can dance to literally any song and go at any pace you want. It works your whole body and it’s fun. I guarantee you’ll be sore the day after you start. I pair it with my strength training, but do something that you enjoy so that when you start cardio it doesn’t feel like your torturing yourself. Have fun and go crazy!
Personally I find mixing bodyweight exercise, cardio, weight lifting and yoga throughout the entire week along with a yummy, healthy diet and true deep rest creates the best body shape overall. Keeping every activity fun and varied is the most important thing.
MeJustAimy for me I don’t use an app I just made my own plan to fit my weeks. Looks like this. Monday-yoga Tuesday-HIIT workout Wednesday-abs and upper body (I do a mixture of body weight exercises and weight lifting) Thursday-legs and butt followed by yoga (again some exercises ill use weights some I don’t) Friday-HIIT workout. Depending on how my week looks I might switch up the days to fit my schedule better and sometimes I don’t get to the yoga on Thursdays cause I’m wore out or don’t have time but hey 🤷🏼♀️
@@MeJustAimy there is an app for Yoga called Daily Yoga and an app for exercises called Keep. There is a big variety in applications for physical exercise but those are my favorite, check them out and let me know if you like them :)
Nadine Zakarya Thanks I just saw this now! I started training daily since march^^ exited to keep it up Have bought a variety of apps since though lol, I need direction and help i’m terrible at organizing and planning otherwise
0.35 - Myth 1 - muscle burns more calories than fat 1.44 - Myth 2 - weightlifting is better for fat loss than cardio 5.18 - Myth 3 - bodyweight workouts don't work 7.58 - Myth 4 - Training chest will grow your boobies 9.29 - Myth 5 - training back will improve your posture.
FTFY 0:35 - Myth 1 - muscle burns more calories than fat 1:44 - Myth 2 - weightlifting is better for fat loss than cardio 5:18 - Myth 3 - bodyweight workouts don't work 7:58 - Myth 4 - Training chest will grow your boobies 9:29 - Myth 5 - training back will improve your posture.
Dude I NEEDED to hear this. I’m getting back on track for the millionth time and I always end up getting off because of that “information overload” and questioning what I’m doing. Thank you!!
I don't understand why people say bodyweight exercises are totally ineffective. I lost 20kg and gained muscle through only doing a year of ballet classes several times a week. The most resistance involved at any point, in conditioning classes only, was a light theraband and 1lb dumbbells. I lift weights now, and my body looks different, but both activities are effective, in different ways, for different outcomes.
Ebonnie Breeze ballet is very very ineffective for muscle gain. And I don’t think anyone says ballet is bad for weight lose. Now doing push ups vs doing bench press for example is worse in both categories.
@@godofnothing428 It might be ineffective for muscle growth, but it was certainly effective for conditioning, strength, and mostly endurance. Having said that, my quads grew, despite not wanting them to.
They absolutely do. I’m down 15 lbs after 2 months of (insert MLM home workout here that I won’t name because fuck MLMs even if the workouts are good,) I also seem to be able to hit more muscles than I could when I was just traditionally weightlifting.
@Nugget G it's like hand/eye coordination, takes time to develop, some people haven't mastered it yet. And that's okay, no need to make people feel bad because of something so small.
The last myth is just yes!!! I am a swimmer, so my back muscles are certainly not weak there. I still have bad posture, and my physiotherapist said that my core muscles were too weak to hold up my heavy back muscles rather than my back being too weak. I’ve been told to do back exercises my entire life, but the moment I trained more core my posture got better.
I can’t believe how hard I feel the perfectionism thing and what come from over researching and knowing what feels like TOO MUCH. I feel like I would walk into a gym and feel full paralysis and panic about what I was supposed to be doing so I would walk right out or make excuses to not go at all !!! Since the gyms are closed now I’ve just been doing what feels best for my bod and I’ve never felt better!!
I've never felt so strong overall than when I was doing a weekly mix of Pilates, kickboxing, and dance workouts. And none of these workouts were more than 45 min.
@Sabrina Rustemi Fitness Blender is a really great channel that has different workouts. They have weightlifting videos, cardio videos, combination weightlifting and cardio/HIIT videos and often times there are burn out rounds that are pilates based or yoga based. There videos range from 10 min. workouts (to add in to a workout you are already doing) to 20 minute, to 30 minute, to 45 minute, to 60 minute workouts. They have a very wide range of videos to chose from.
In regards to calories burned during strength vs cardio training - Yes, but after your cardio workout is done, since you’ve likely done very little muscle damage (torn muscle fibers that need to be rebuilt), you don’t burn any more calories. But when it comes to strength training, or any kind of workout where you’re really working on building muscles, yes you burn maybe fewer calories during the actual session, but then you continue to burn a greater number of calories over the next few days as your body works to rebuild that muscle tissue!! - I studied kinesiology, this is a very basic concept we learned. And it’s logical. So in the end YES strength training definitely burns more calories. It doesn’t have to be simply during the session.
Totally agreed, I think the way she initially phrased that Myth was extremely misleading for people that are new to the information. Almost making it seem as though it doesn't matter whether you do weight training or cardio, you'll lose the same amount of weight; which couldn't be more false.
The Last Myth is the one I appreciated the month. That perfection paralysis has also gotten into me to the point where I stopped altogether to work out for almost two months after a year of consistent training just because of not knowing what to do. But yes, LESS IS MORE! Thank you for this video.
I feel the same way. I the more I tried to learn about fitness as I got more fit, the more I questioned everything I did. Which oddly led to me just falling of the wagon after having been really consistent and seeing results. And here I am again binging information trying to figure out what happened. I loved hearing her mention this because it helped me clarify what is going on mentally for me. I don't need a "perfect" program I just need to have one and stick to it again.
@@ShellTay32 EXACTLY! I'm in the same place, going back to actually doing and not letting the perfection paralysis or shame hit me. So keep going my friend with whatever works for YOU.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, ABBY! Body-workouts can be killer! Over the past 3 years, I have developed lots of issues with my hands, wrists, and arms and have had multiple surgeries. Right now I cannot lift heavy-weights or even push up my own body weight and it discouraged me so much to see heavy-weight lifting projected as the only viable form of fitness. Thank you for telling me something I really needed to hear ❤❤❤❤
I would love a video dedicated to the last 'myth'. I am a perfectionist, have OCD tendencies and have an all or nothing/black or white mentality when it comes to fitness and eating. This is such a major issue for people and I think many people would benefit from hearing about it. I have the mentality of success or failure, there is no in-between. For example, I will have a great meal plan for the day, but I "fuck up" by eating something that my mind will consider to be unhealthy (cake, chocolate, chips/crisps etc.) Then my mind will be like "well, you already failed, you did not stick to your meal plan, you might as well keep eating shit." That causes me to spiral and I cannot get back on track. I continue to eat unhealthily, I binge eat large packets of chips/crisps. This can last a couple days, a couple weeks or months. or another example is, I skipped a workout for whatever reason, my mind will go back and say that I have failed, so might as well don't bother for the rest of the week, the month or however long it takes me to get back on track. I started my fitness journey at 78kg, lost 20kg and was at 58kg. I got a really bad cold and chest infection, which left me unable to breathe without coughing for 5 weeks. Because of my sickness, I had "failed". The success or failure mentality lead to extreme binge eating, days where I "couldn't be bothered" getting out of bed. Crying hysterically because I am a "failure" and I am "fat" and "ugly". It has taken me 7 months to get back on track. IT WAS ALL MY MENTALITY. My mindset and mentality were completely damaging my progress. This is an extreme issue that I would love for you to discuss on your channel. I honestly believe so many people would benefit from learning about this topic.
I went through something similar. I was training solely for aesthetic and for the image it gave to other people of me. (Being fit, healthy, attracyice, talented, etc) I started hating going to the gym so much I took a couple months off in the fall and then fell sick with pneumonia in the beginning of December. It ended up being around 6 months completely off from the gym. It took me all that time to get to a reasonable place mentally where I can train to feel good for myself instead of training to make myself look good to others. Now I’ve just started the physical part or retraining and being at a new starting point. I think this type of things happens to a lot of woman and reminding ourselves that we are beautiful and worthy no matter what helps us to channel positive energy and self love into our workouts. I’m on that mental journey with you and I’m sending you love 🤍 it’s good to I’m not alone in that way of thinking
Also wanted to say that going through those ups and down are PART of our progress, not a stop sign on our progress. Just an opportunity for us to recognize what’s going on and work through it 🤍
@@kdlf333 I am glad I am not the only one that has experienced this. Thank you for your comment, it means a lot because I have never spoken to someone who has had a similar experience to me, it has made me feel less alone in my journey and my experience! 🤍 I wish you all the best in your journey (both mental and physical) 🤍🤍🤍
Same. I'm 15 and I've got OCD, I've literally suffered with since really young, like almost 10 years. I've definitely felt like this before, tried to make myself sick many times (because I binged or thought that I wasnt like enjoying what I was eating so there was no point, I was literally just eating fat and thought I've f**ked it all up, I sometimes still feel like this, especially when I've taken a couple of rest days off), and saw food as just calories and numbers. I've started eating healthier now tho and doing it so my body gets all the nutrition it needs and ive been exercising to help my body build strength and generally to be healthy! I still limit my food and wake up like hungry but I'm definitely better than before.After I've had my lows there will always be highs x
I used to spend so many hours at the gym doing cardio, I used to be a marathon runner... but honestly, the changes that made my body look good really came from lifting weight. It takes to much less time at the gym and looks good. Of course, that I also have developed a healthy diet over the years too, with little sugar, lots of dark green vegetables and lean meats. I WISH I hadn't spent so many years on a treadmill. Also - I stopped doing weights for about a year, I did vinyasa yoga 3-4x week. I loved it, I can now do pushups, I have so much control over my body/core/meditation - but I lost muscle on my butt/legs/back. One month back in the gym, and the definition is also back.
Nice! I've found that I make the most progress when I switch up my routine to match what I actually enjoy doing, dancing, long walks, weight lifting, plates, etc. If you enjoy your workouts you'll be more likely to stick with them! And usually the cursed treadmill is NOT the answer
Regarding the cardio vs weightlifting debate: you have to take into consideration that after the workout your heart rate stays up for longer with weightlifting, which burns more calories. Additionally, muscle growth is greater when you train with weights and to sustain muscle growth, the body has to use up calories Still, I think the difference between the two is marginal at best. Just do, whatever feels right to you👍🏻 After all, doing something will always be better than doing nothing🤷🏻♀️
the whole elevated heart rate after working out thing is true but it is also not that big of a deal. it is estimated that that extra post workout "burn" is only 6-15% of how much you burned while working out. so if you burn 500 calories doing intense weight training that would mean that the EPOC would represent an extra burn of 75kcal at best, which is really not that much
This is my favorite video that you’ve done. Super informative. I used to do heavy weights and little cardio at the gym 5-6 days a week, eating healthy and it didn’t seem to work much for me. But I did it because everyone else said it would make me lean and I would lose weight and look better and my body did not change as I wanted it to. I started doing body weight/HIIT/ yoga exercises from home and the results are exactly what I’ve been looking for. I can see toned muscle and I’ve lost fat and extra weight. Just like you said, the fact that nothing happened for me at the gym made me quit for months. I felt discouraged. But- I’ve been working out from home now for about 3 months 6 days a week and my life is changed. It’s going with something you can see yourself doing forever, not just the short term.
Love your comment. I remember in my 20s, before all this crazy information overload time we are living in, I would simply do exercise videos at home. Wasnt concerned with whether I lifted or not because as we know "that is the answer to all our problems"🙄 as soon as I started looking for more and more information, first by googling, then by seeing what others were doing on Instagram, that was the beginning of my extreme confusion and discontent with what I was doing. Never got the results I wanted and many times I did things I didnt enjoy. I'm older now, late 30s and I stopped looking for the next best workout, structure, etc.. I simply got tired of it all. I still go to the gym and I still lift but now I do it more for health. I see younger girls who I can tell are obviously copying Instagram workouts and I feel bad for them. In some ways I think this is the worst time to "learn" about fitness and health overall.
I found as a runner for some years that I don’t really sweat when I run or after rather I sweat when I am completing exercise routines that hit parts of the body I am not use to using such as the obliques and powerful plyometrics. To explain, the exercises I am not use to doing cause me to sweat, and the exercises I adapted myself for I no longer sweat.
OMG yes!!! I really really struggle with the “all or nothing” mentality. There’s so much to know about fitness and so many different things that people say it’s hard to keep up it’s really discouraging. Thank you so much for saying that you don’t have to do everything right
I’m a sprinter and weight lifter. During off season I mostly focus on strength training. I agree that cardio in the moment doesn’t make you hungry, but after that blood flow returns I am EXTREMELY HUNGRY. I feel like with weight training I eat a bit after I work out but after I cool down from cardio I want to eat the whole house lol. Maybe it’s just me.
love that the last "myth" applies to anything! we ingrain ourselves with the "all or nothing" mentality, but at the same time, know that moderation would probably be the better option and its also one of the most difficult. now that's a hard pill to swallow.
I'm so happy to hear you can get fit with bodyweight workouts! I can't afford the gym right now, but I was scared that if I just did bodyweight exercises at home it would be useless. Thank you for being so informative
Kit Kat i have such a bad anxiety and been suggested by my psych to workout to help with it. I only workout at home, they work! I follow Chloe Ting’s workout, I’ve been seeing results.
The best results I've had in a long time came from a body weight mixed cardio routine. But, then I started hearing that wasn't a good workout and fell off track trying other things and now I am back at my starting point. It WAS working for MY goals but I let lots of info overload distract me.
I think functional training can’t be ignored... if you don’t use it you lose it. We should be training in all planes of motion with and without load. That includes rotation, front to back, side to side... all in all, exercise is necessary to be healthy and move well. Some is better than none. Smart training is better than average unfocused training 👍🏼💪🏼
You are so right. I'm a dancer and we train that way. We tend to think we are a shape from the front and the back, when in fact we are 3d hahaha and when you train with that in mind, you see so much results, not only aesthetically, but also mentally
I have just recently discovered you, Abby, I have to say two things: First, you explain things very well and I like how educated you are, plus the fact that you can "reflect" on the previous affirmations/videos. And secondly, YOU ARE SO RIGHT, overthinking does not help at all, overthinking only messes with you. this happened to me, I was in great shape, and then everything fell apart. I stopped listening to all the podcasts and audiobooks on how to improve myself, and suddenly I started to be back on track, more sustainable more mentally healthy for ME. So as long as I am happy, everything is good. Now, I would like to ask you, have you ever had to deal with the loss of period during your journey? Would you make a video reflecting on the downsides of losing fat too fast? i.e quick transformations etc. This had happened to me, and it drove me mental, I think is a great subject, I read the Women's book (don't know if you heard of it) and it gives GREAT scientific research. Cheers!
Thank you for mentioning that any activity is better than no activity. and that END PART. More is not better!! I spent a lot of time getting SO caught up in all these myths and what they meant for me until I realized that I should be exercising for fun, and eating what makes me feel good, so that I can live longer and happier. As someone with a plethora of hobbies, interests and other things going on in her life, it's so nice to sit down to a video that talks about exercise as something to slow down with and just enjoy for the sake of living a healthy, active life-- not something to perfect and micromanage. Focusing on health above all is so important and I wish more people talked about that online tbh. Thank you Abby!
I’ve found that I love weight lifting because I’m lazy and I can take breaks and I don’t feel like dying the whole time. I hate cardio and before when I tried to focus on cardio I’d give up after a few weeks because I just didn’t enjoy it. But now I find myself excited to go to the gym. So, I think the thing that works is what you enjoy. Once working out really becomes part of my weekly routine for several months, I will try to add more cardio in there but for now, I’m proud of myself for even going to the gym multiple times per week.
Excellent video Abby! You hit on everything I was searching to find today! I’ve been seeing great results weight lifting + nutrition focused + some cardio sprints (10minx2 weekly + 30-60liss cardio X2more weekly) I’ve dropped about 40lbs of body fat and gained a lot of muscle from what it feels like. 162 to about 130lbs and muscle replaced some fat) I have my 14th wedding anniversary in 4 weeks. I decided to try a mini cut to lose about 5-8lbs of body fat in order to look a little more defined in the dress I bought to wear. I’ve restricted my caloric to 1400 instead of about 2000 and upped my cardio to every day. I’m only a few days in so I can’t testify to results yet but I am miserable. I am hungry and I am tired. I was starting to think I just am not eating enough and maybe too much cardio when I thought about going twice today just to speed things up. Then I came across this video. Little changes seem to be the way to go as this intense may be vaulting things and giving me even less results before my anniversary? I am kind of torn on what to do. On one hand I feel like 3-4 weeks of pushing myself might give me results and not hinder since it wouldn’t be long term but maybe not? Wish I knew but your intel makes me think I’m doing it for nothing and will just go into starvation mode? 😩 anyways. Wish I would see more uploads from you! We all miss you! -love from Las Vegas!
Abby’s videos are so great and full of truth! I will have to say as a surgeon and women’s health expert, I’m about 99% sure she had her breasts augmented. As fit as she is, she would not be able to have that much fat on her chest. And it’s absolutely okay to change your body to however you want it to look like. That doesn’t take away from her expertise on these topics. I just feel it’s important for other viewers to know that her body comes 95% from insane discipline but a also from augmentation.
I'd love to hear your updated opinion (if you've given it in the past) about the idea that doing cardio will reduce muscle? Or like inhibit gaining muscle? Or is that all to do with calories in versus calories out too? Thank you!
If you’re following a strength or hypertrophy based program and you add in a ton of cardio which is endurance training you will see less gains then if you follow a only a strength / hypertrophy program. However, it’s debatable how much cardio actually causes this effect. If you enjoy cardio and you aren’t over training I would encourage you to continue to do it. However, certain types of cardio use different types of muscle fibers so short bursts of cardio such as sprinting or intense HIIT will cause a greater number of bulkier looking muscle fibers than distance running/cycling. If you want to support your more full muscular look I’d recommend those types of cardio 😊 - Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science 🧪
I'm so "all or nothing" thinking its really been detrimental to me. This was good to hear, I got injured after doing a marathon and now can walk not run but walk half a mile. I kept hurting myself cause I kept thinking I should be able to do more. This was a really good reminder to work were im at and talk it slow and healthy.
you look so gooood babe!! i'm so glad you're back to youtube!! your videos are the best in the fitness area !!i learn so much from them💗💗💗love love youu 💗
I was struggling with my look overall since middle school, I was always sporty, did everything in school and then I gained more weight I don't even know when it happenned as I was always super skinny kid but everything went down from there. But because I was always a sporty person I started doing workouts which didn't work, my eating habits got worse then I went studying at university and the first year was still the same then I got gym membership and started lifting but my body wasn't changing I felt so defeated and after that I decided to finally go to some classes with more people. I went for boxing because that was always lowkey my dream to go back to martial arts (I did judo as a kid) and that is what got me looking better but more importantly feeling better. I love going to my boxing and now also kickboxing classes, I love being around people and hyping eachother up and I just love it. I do what I love and it actually helps me finally both physically and mentally. I still have a way to go to the look I am striving for but because other people see the difference and I do as well I feel confident in what I am doing.
I did insanity and my body changed incredibly and I had abs and leg muscle but then I had my second baby so I’m starting again. I love your videos. It’s so helpful. I’m trying to to loose fat and get lean. I’ve got my diet under control but I’m so unsure whether to do weighs or cardio again. I am desperately trying to get leaner legs and a lifted bum. Thank you for sharing your videos xxx
Check first your pelvic floor is totally recovered before lifting weights! You can start with low cardio so you don't hurt yourself and then add up intensity, then go for the weights Idk, better check with for doctor or personal trainer
Ideally, you might want to do a mix of both. Cardio will not give you a lean, lifted bum. Only resistance training will (whether it be body weight/banded or with weights). If you do do both then you should also space your training so that your cardio doesn't impede your resistance training gains (minimum 12 hours apart). Other than this, my advice is to do what you know you can continuously do. It is truly consistency that is key more than any particular type of workout.
Damn girl quit calling me out like this!! Jesus Christ thank you SO MUCH for saying that at like 11:00 because THAT IS ME!!! I’ve been hitting hot yoga so hard and I hit the gym hard for a while but I am trained to research and it really was INFORMATION OVERLOAD!!! I just quit going to the gym as often because I wasn’t even sure if I was doing the right workouts for my body type!! Keep preaching girl! I needed that! 💕💕
Curious about why you didn’t address the fact that cardio slows down your metabolism when your body adapts to it which only takes about 3-4 weeks depending on the person
jc no she didn’t. She mentions hunger but that is so incredibly different from metabolism. She also doesn’t address long term vs short term effects of using cardio or weightlifting for fat loss which is the main point of my initial comment
You are so right about too much noise in the industry. I'm in my 60's and relatively healthy. I have two issues that are endemic to my age group, posture and muscle mass loss. So I embarked on a journey of doing Pilates and selected the Convict Conditioning program to deal with muscle mass. Bodyweight is much much safer than weight lifting so I chose that route, besides, bodyweight is closed kinetic chain exercise and that is proven to be much safer from injury than open kinetic chain exercise. And just like you said, you see a vid on Crossfit or body building or whatever and it plants a seed and then whamo boomo, I'm off experimenting on something totally interrupting my progress and gains. So thank you for your practical advice, your logical advice, your rational advice. Keep up the good work kiddo and thank you.
I have gained noticeable muscle and shape from "just" body weight exercise (YOGA rules!). People ask me all the time about my buffed arms and shoulders.
Girl, you are my favourite fitness star! I love how you don’t make claims, you back everything up with science and your so humble and genuine. Keep it up! You’re incredible and thank you so much for the valuable information! I always turn to you for the answers! You have helped me tons. You inspire me to want to get on here... MUCH LUVVVV ✌️
The "myth" is not that weightlifting burns more calories, but that weightlifting helps you loose fat better than cardio. And that is true in my books, because you body adapts quite quickly to cardio and become efficient at eg running and sends an overall signal to the body, that it needs to be efficient with the calories you intake. If you only do cardio to loose weight you will most likely end up loosing weight (includes fat and muscle), but then the calories you eat for loosing weight will end up being your maintenance calories, so you have to eat even less and end up in a downward spiral. When you lift weights on the other hand your body will still adapt, but not only can you step up the intensity easier (by applying progressive overload) your body will want to build muscle to adapt to that new signal by lifting weight, so you will loose much more fat than muscle, when you loose weight. So you won't end up in that downward spiral of restricting your calories.
In my experience, only training my back muscles didn't completely correct my posture. What made a bigger difference was building good core muscles with doing planks and also deadlifting and running! All of these exercises require you to keep your core tight and helped me with my anterior pelvic tilt. Of course I also had a lot of tightness in front of my shoulders so upper back workout was necessary as well.
I've never heard someone describe that flaw so well, and I ABSOLUTELY have the same issue! There's a song lyric that says "a morbid fascination with all things in extremes" and I may as well get it tattooed on my forehead, because I'm so damned all or nothing about everything. Fitness/diet is one of the BIGGEST things I struggle with because of that. You really can derail your entire freaking plan just because you heard someone say something that made you think what you are doing isn't right or the best way to do things. Perfectionism...it's a blessing and a curse! Thank you for talking about that. It helps a lot to hear it from someone else, especially someone like yourself who has managed to work around it!
You are so friggin pretty I'm distracted. Glad you addressed that muscle vs fat burning thing. *I lift regularly and also run regularly and my husband tries to tell me I should solely strength train to burn fat.* 🙈 I've also done the math. I'll have to show him your video. 😄👏🏼👍🏼
As a coach, I only ever recommend weight training if there is a muscle imbalance or strength deficiency. There's a reason why certain professionals like Lebron James aren't roided up hulks. They've got the necessary muscles to boost them in their sport period. And as a sports coach, I don't ever recommend just getting big because it negatively impacts agility and flexibility needed in many sports. The way to approach this muscle vs fat is that the fact that more muscle mass = more calories burned is a nice side effect, not the primary focus. It just happens to burn a little more.
Smart on you for doing the math. There is also a huge difference between fat burning and fat loss. Too many people complicate stuff with crap about a "fat burning zone" and similar garbage. Strength training is wonderful, but there're a lot of other ways to train.
Ok holy moly, once i got to the end i got shivers because of how much that applied to me! I have been doing this for 2-3 years and NOW all a sudden i want to give up?? Becase i read some books that made me feel like i did everything wrong?? Or because i was listing to the nay sayers?? What the heck happened to me! This was a wake up call, so thank thank thank you Abby!!
This is my first of your videos that I have watched (and more after this). I have not even began to touch my fitness journey and all these hit home. I was sitting here worried that I won’t be able to “transform” or “build” my body the way I wanted. Like you I’m a perfectionist and let the anxiety of failure overcome the want to achieve. Thank you for the video!
I always thought myth #2 is a myth. Whenever I incorporated cardio I always lost more weight than gained muscle and in less than a week. Not as much when lifting heavy.
@@miskaball1734 I saw most weight loss when I workout for atleast 5 days a week. And don't compare my work hours with yours because your body is different than mine, so it will have different needs. I usually don't like slow workout so I blend cardio and weight. But when I'm focused on weight alone results take longer. Do what makes your muscles feel worked up and heart beating fast as if you can't do another set. And keep rest time short between sets.
Bunny how were you tracking your results ? Was it through the scale or measuring? Cause maybe as you were losing .5 lb of fat, you were also gaining .5 lb of muscle so that’s why results seemed more slow if you were weighing yourself on the scale. Just an idea
If you only look at the number on the scale, sure.. For about 3 weeks I was unable to do any sort of cardio, so I did 3 heavy lifting sessions per week, I "gained" 2 lbs during those 3 weeks, but I lost body fat, I had to make another belt hole for my pants to stay up..
For me it's the opposite - cardio does very little for me, even if I run daily. *If I lift weights* I see good results much, much faster, even if I don't eat clean. I am a mesomorph, so maybe that's important as well.
Girl that last thing made the whole video worth it! The perfectionism/self doubt thing and the info overload is so legit, I end up panicking and getting in my own way to achieving what I want to achieve. BTW, you look amazing, you're literally goals, I love it!
That last part hit home here. I used to be a personal trainer, then took a break for making babies and never got back to a professional setting. However I do keep up with a lot of research and dietary stuff, etc etc. I'm at the point now where I say I know TOO MUCH because I get all "deer in headlights" when I try to organize my fitness or nutrition goals from just information overload. Its also damaged me so badly trying to follow the research where after trying Keto for a bit for health reasons and then stopping, I had to re-train my brain to say that an orange IS OKAY TO EAT. It is HEALTHY even though its far too high in carbs for keto. Its a real fuck-y place to be in.
the most trustful video so far. You know I actually am in the same position, the more info I got, the more doubt I got. What is the right exercise for me and so on? So, I stopped educating more and just trusted to some apps I've used and I saw the results. Bodyweight training is a must.
I cannot tell you how thankful I am that you explained the hunger difference with heavy weights vs. high intensity training. When I do bodyweight/low weight HIIT and running I have no issue maintaining my weight. When I do heavy lifting I am STARVING.
If you do your weight lifting part of your workout with 🔄high intensity +lifting heavy weights+doing more reps and sessions🔄 you'll lose the weight you want. I'm telling you I hate doing cardio and I dont but I'm doing this circle with every workout I do. For me this is the best way to tone your body and to feel your best.🌱💚✌🏻
Short rest period between sets, when paired with opposing or different muscle group exercises, such as a cable crunch superset with a GHR is a way to be more efficient in the gym, and also can be used as a means of progression for hypertrophy training over time. Intensity techniques, such as decreasing rest periods and super sets, can drive muscle hypertrophy 🔥
Your videos really help me with form & unintentionally helped me understand how to heal my DR (from pregnancy) & support my current pregnancy. Thank you for sharing all of this information 🙏🏼
Can you pleaseeee talk about the stomach vacuum exercises and if they actually work cuz they have so many contradicting opinions about it? You are the only no BS trainer I have seen in youtube and I know I can trust you! Thanks alot and lots of love!
11:25 that is me!! That is one of the reasons that it took me so long to get to the gym and trust myself and even now sometimes I still catch myself thinking that what I'm doing is wrong and doubting myself and I will get no results. I have to try really hard to learn from that last myth
THANK YOU! this is what I needed to hear! There's so much information out there that I end up just getting confused and feeling that I'm not doing enough. And I love the point you made about how it's you're body and you don't need to build muscle if you are happy with where you are. I feel like there are alot of people out there that say all these things about "you need to build more muscle" because they want an outcome that they approve of, not an outcome of which the person is happy with. So thank you, again!
Thank you for myth #3! I cannot lift weights anymore due to my lax joints. I either pull my shoulders out of their sockets or, because my shoulders sit so shallow in the sockets, it pulls on my trapezius too much and I end up with strained neck muscles and a migraine for days. I love body weight exercises as this is all I can handle. I’m 96lbs and any dead lifting kills me. I can’t even carry heavy objects. I was holding a 2lb dumbbell in my hand and put my hand on my hip and now I’m dealing with a 3+ month injury because that dislocated my shoulder and then ended up with an impingement. So all these muscular people saying to lift weights makes me feel defeated since I can’t. I’m so flat that I need to gain some shape (and weight) just for my confidence. (Im tired of being called anorexic.) I would love to get a butt! Any standing exercise recommendations would be awesome since I can’t even do a tabletop plank right now because I’m not supposed to put weight in one arm until my shoulder heals. I have all these cute crop tops that I would love to wear but I end up wearing loose and long tops to cover my flat butt :’(
I discovered your chanel 2 days ago and ive been binging your videos ever since... I love the honesty and the information has been super helpful...keep going👍
Weight lifting burns more calories than cardio because you continue to burn calories after you are done with the session. It elevates your metabolism for a longer period of time post workout. Wish she had addressed that aspect. Obviously you could work harder with cardio than weightlifting and therefore still burn more with it but the studies do show that weightlifting results in more net calories being burned. I'm not talking about massive changes. Just like if you burn 200kcal running for an hour and 160kcal resistance training for an hour you will burn an additional 60-120kcal after the resistance training session from the raised metabolism which will cause your net expenditure to be higher than with cardio.
I've got a follow-up myth for you: I have large breasts that are heavy and droopy. Does training my pecks give them a least a little lift? Or change them in any way? Please answer if you can!
This was helpful. I gained 80 pounds after my grandmother died and another 50 after my mom died and I got guardianship of a especial needs sibling and I've been scouring RU-vid for information on how best to go about getting my life back. Thanks for the information.
Hi! I have a question, I trust you but I’m confused from hearing so many different things about weight loss from people, just need something cleared up! You said the myth is “weightlifting is better for fat loss than cardio” but started to mention which burns more calories.. but isn’t weight lifting better in the long run to burn fat because you build muscle which helps you to eventually burn more calories at your resting metabolic rate which then helps you to maintain weight loss? Pls help! I’m so confused and never know what to focus on to lose weight/burn fat
I have a BS in Exercise Science so i thought i would answer your question some! Weightlifting is definitely a very important factor for weight loss because you are correct, lifting increases muscle mass which increases your RMR. When you lift you are in a way replacing the excess fat in your body with muscle, which is a leaner tissue, allowing you to lean down and burn more calories at rest. In my opinion, you should always include both weight lifting and cardio into your workout plan because both have so many different benefits and basically every study have shown that a combo of both types of exercise is superior to just doing one or the other for your overall health. Weight training is an excellent tool for weight loss and for keeping the weight off, however, if you also want to lean out the muscle that you are building cardio is a great way to do that because it is training the different muscle fibers. A calorie deficit is important for weight loss, however, there is such a thing as eating too little and ruining your metabolism, so you need to make sure that you are eating a sufficient amount of calories in order to keep up with your workouts while also being in a slight deficit (working out and weight lifting will allow you to still be in a deficit while also eating more than you would otherwise). Additionally, upping your protein intake is an essential part of losing weight, and building muscle from your workouts (you should typically be eating about 1g of protein per pound of body weight each day or a little less). Make sure that you are fueling your body correctly before and after each workout and that you are really pushing yourself with each workout and progressively increasing the weight you are lifting every couple weeks in order to see results. Typically, you want to workout for 150 minutes/ week upping it to 300 min/week (of moderate to vigorous intensity exercise) to really see results. Really focus on these things and you should be able to lose weight and eventually it will become a new habit and being in a constant deficit wont be necessary for maintenance!
12:20. Yes yes yes. This was me. Felt great looked good loved what I was doing. Then I started doing new stuff more stuff listening to too many voices. Messed myself up. Ugh. Preach it girl
Thank you so much for this video, I have been stuck on #5 for weeks now, but your words were the snap out of it moment i needed. love you, love your videos, thank you for everything you do!!!!
Girl yesssss!!!! Love you and I’m at this place on my journey. I just started training on my own after having a trainer for 2 yrs. it’s a big difference doing it alone but a good journey of discovering how to train alone without outside motivation. With that being said I have been overwhelmed by all the advice and recently stopped seeking it. Your video is definitely confirmation that I’m on the right path. Thanks for being awesome !
