Myth-busting
4 fitness 'rules' you can safely ignore
The short version
- "Soreness means it worked"
- "Weigh in every morning"
- "More cardio is always better"
- "Train through fatigue, no excuses"
"Soreness means it worked"
Soreness measures novelty, not growth. Real progress is more load or more reps across weeks — you can track that, you can't feel it.
"Weigh in every morning"
The scale blends water, food and glycogen — one number, three lies. A trend line plus body composition tells you what actually moved.
"More cardio is always better"
Past a point it competes with recovery. Your resting heart rate and HRV show when you've tipped from training into digging a hole.
"Train through fatigue, no excuses"
Fatigue is data, not weakness. Some days the honest call is to pull back — ignoring that is how good weeks turn into injured months.