They're not interchangeable.

By no means is it chemically or physically possible for muscle tissue to convert over to fat and vice versa.

Fan into muscle.

That's Sean Keegan, Mr.

I'm a clinical athletic trainer at the New York Sports Science Lab in Staten Island, New York, and he's one of three athletic trainers we brought into our studios.

My name's genial Mason.

My name is and Easter to debunk 17 of the most common exercise myths.

It really depends on your goals.

Training fasted in the morning.

Is mawr conducive to losing fat?

Because when you wake up, you're in a fasted state, and that means your body is basically consuming itself.

So it's looking at fat Storage is looking at muscle storage.

That's the time where, if your goal is to lose weight and just slim down, lean down.

That's the best time toe optimize that window for training.

But in terms of effectiveness of training in general, I don't think it really matters.

You just need to make sure that if you are training at night, you are not fatiguing yourself throughout the day.

So when most people think stretching their thinking static stretching, you achieve a certain position.

You hold that position and your goal is to increase your range of motion.

The problem with that is you can end up really loose.

And if you follow that type of stretching with something explosive or something ballistic or something, strength based you now have a loose tissue or you have a lax joint and you're not gonna be able to produce is much force.

And you could also potentially lead yourself to being injured because you're not a stable eso.

One of my favorite is when it's the holidays, right?

And you have you have that and our uncle.

That's just like, Hey, I'm just trying to lose it right here and they start pinching the lower abdomen.

I'm like, Oh, great, you can't spot reduce the part that you want.

And in good news, it doesn't go the other way, either.

It's not like when I eat a cheeseburger, it's gonna go right to my right, and if you are trying to lower your body.

Fat cardio isn't the best way to do it.

Cardio doesn't burn fat Cardio burns calories.

So if your goal is to lose weight, you want to be in a caloric deficit.

So as a part of getting into that caloric deficit, doing cardiovascular exercises is helpful.

But if you're not eating a diet, or if you're not monitoring your caloric intake on top of that and making sure that you are in that deficit, no amount of cardio that you dio you can't outrun a bad diet.

And in fact, doing too much cardio can actually be a bad thing.

If all you're doing is cardio, with the goal of losing weight, you could start to burn into that muscle tissue.

So if you're burning into your lean muscle tissue now, you could actually be slowing down your metabolism.

You could be decreasing your bone density, and you could be making yourself weaker.

And that's why I think this myth is potentially the most dangerous and damaging one for the general population.

But it may not be as common as the belief that I love this 11 myth.

I hear all the time is that muscle weighs more than fat.

A pound of bricks weighs the same as a pound of feathers.

So it's not that muscle weighs more than fat.

It's that muscle is more dense than fat, so in terms of you building muscle, you can add weight on the scale.

The scale isn't necessarily the best indicator of progress when we're trying to develop our physique, and oftentimes the first you can add muscle and the scale will reflect that you're heavier.

But over time understanding that for all the lean muscle you have, you're increasing your resting calories burned per day.

That's a long term sustainable change in your body, as opposed to just doing cardio sessions and going into caloric deficit and starving yourself.

Of course, building muscle isn't just for men.

Women think that they will book up if they start working out.

And if that's the look you're going for, I think that's great because you're doing something that you want to dio.

But if you are working out for general wellness and health, I don't want you to be afraid.

Thio lift heavy weights.

You're not going to get bulky by nature, and in fact, weightlifting is especially important for women.

As we age, we become more prone thio getting osteoporosis.

So we definitely need to be doing resistance training, where our muscles are feeling that stimulation so that the bones nearby can remain strong.

And whether you're a man or a woman, you don't actually need weights at all to build strength.

I mean the myth being that you have to go to the gym to be doing strength training.

It's crazy, right?

Your body is a weight.

So body weight exercises have been around forever, and they're so important to be able to push up your body or crunch or squat or pull up.

And if it's a six pack year after the muscles themselves aren't even that important, getting a six pack is not about doing tons of crunches.

A lot of it has to do with your nutrition, and Stern agrees.

ABS are made in the kitchen, the abs or a muscle.

If you're gonna target the muscle by doing crunches, leg lifts, bicycle crunches, oblique twist your essentially building the muscle.

So think of it as you're building the engine of the car, and then the outside is your body fat.

And how do you show off the inside of the car?

You've got to reduce that body fat.

So sweating a lot means you've got a really great workout is something I hear all the time.

Unfortunately, that's not true either.

Uh, some people are just naturally more prone to sweating.

Some people just have underactive sweat glands, so it means that you're healthy in your filtration system, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the effectiveness of your work out.

But if you do sweat a lot, how should you replenish?

I would not say that most commercial sports strengths are the most efficient way of rehydrating following a workout, but plain water isn't going to cut it either, if you're just consuming water, too, That's also not the most effective way of hydrating, because hydration is not just water.

There's also trace minerals that act as electrolytes, which helped with nerve conduction.

They help with brain function.

They help with muscular contraction.

So if you're looking for the best way to rehydrate post workout, it could be very beneficial to add just a dab of pink Himalayan sea salt water.

The pink Himalayan sea salt has over 60 trace minerals, all of which are found naturally in human sweat.

So when you consider something like a Gatorade or Powerade, they may have four or five different electrolytes in their blends, so they're falling drastically short in terms of overall hydration.

When it comes to all the minerals in your body and after a workout, you should also eat protein immediately, Right?

If you already have a protein rich diet, you don't need toe worry so much about downing a protein shake right after your workout.

Now what you are gonna be depleted of, though, especially if you're doing anaerobic exercise, you're gonna be depleted of glycogen.

Glycogen is the immediate form of energy for muscle contraction, and that comes in way of simple carbohydrates and sugars.

So post training it's important to replenish that glycogen.

But even if you're fueling muscles with a proper diet, they still need time off.

Hashtag no days off.

The old myth that we should not take a day off is in extreme.

There's a huge value in letting the muscle repair itself right, So every time you do, let's go back to the bicep curl.

If I'm doing a bicep curl, a small tear is gonna happen in my biceps.

So the body is going to repair itself because again, it's a machine knows how toe to survive.

And if I continue to do it, I don't have a window of opportunity for the body soldiers to jump in and be like, All right, let's fix this tear because this is constantly being war.

So it needs some of that downtime, um, to again to heal itself, especially if you're sore.

That's a myth for sure.

Soreness is the breakdown of muscle tissue.

It's the chemicals released during that break down.

It's not an indicator of how I'm getting stronger.

I'm getting weaker.

But if your soreness persists for longer than 72 hours, that could be assignment.

You're under recovering or overtraining.

One month is not enough to undo a lifetime of that habit, so it's important to start slow.

Find the things that you enjoy, find the physical activities that make you feel good, make that a daily habit, and there's no one size fits all approach.

There's not one type of movement that you should be doing that is better than the other.

So if you enjoy dancing, go out and dance.

Go out dancing three times a week or do a dance cardio class or something that gets you moving if you like Thio jump on trampolines do that.

I think the best movement for anyone to do something that they enjoy Because the only way that you're going to stick to your workout being a life software you is for you to be doing something you enjoy.