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1. Sit-ups or crunches will burn fat off your abs

“I see a lot people come in here and say they want to lose their stomach,” Koerber says. “I say, ‘Modify your diet and start working on a treadmill,’ and they look at me like I’m crazy. You could have abs like Schwarzenegger, but if you have a layer of body fat over them, you will never see them.” Don’t get us wrong - abdominal exercises are great for strengthening your abs and core, but they’re not going to take the fat off.

2. There is an easy way to lose weight

Nothing could be further from the truth. Fines have been levied against diet pills that claim to have the quick fix. “There is no magic fix,” says Koerber, who teaches a class called “infomercial myths” at BJC WellAware. “It’s called work. [That person in that ad] didn’t get that body in 20 minutes a day, three days a week. It’s just not possible.”

3. If you don’t have time to get in the government’s recommended 30 to 90 minutes a day, you shouldn’t bother

The truth is, anything you can do will be beneficial. Studies have shown that even splitting up those 30 minutes into 10-minute segments is good for you.

4. Weightlifting makes women big and bulky

“That’s just not true,” Hoover says. “Unless they are using steroids, it’s not going to happen.” He says many women are so afraid of this that they lift weights that are too light to properly tone and strengthen their bodies.

5. You aren’t working hard enough if you aren’t dripping in sweat

How much you sweat depends on much more than just how hard you are working. Your body temperature, the clothes you are wearing, genetics and more determine how much you sweat. “Some people can get in a great workout without breaking much of a sweat,” Hoover says. “And then there’s the guy who sweats when he does a biceps curl.”

6. Workouts should hurt

Though feeling sore a day or two after a new workout can be fairly normal, you should never hurt beyond that. “If the soreness worsens, or if you have it four, five or six days after the workout, something’s wrong,” Hoover says. “You may have some sort of inflammation.”

7. If you stop exercising, your muscles will turn to fat

Muscle tissue and fat tissue are completely different, Hoover says. If you stop exercising, your muscle will become smaller and perhaps atrophy. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you will get fat. You’ll gain weight only if you keep eating the way you were when you were exercising. If you eat less to make up for not burning calories, you won’t get fat.

8. As you age, you will lose muscle and gain fat

Though there is some truth to this, it’s not an absolute. As you age, your metabolism decreases, but resistance training can increase and help you maintain lean muscle mass. “You can maintain your muscle - you just have to work a little harder,” Hoover says.

9 Workouts must be intense to burn fat

Actually, the body burns fat as efficiently when you do low- to moderate-intensity workouts. Unfortunately, though, it takes longer to burn calories in a low-intensity workout as compared with a high-intensity.

10. Stretching isn’t important because it won’t make you thinner

Most people skip flexibility training because they think it doesn’t have a direct effect on their fitness. But if you think about the fact that without proper stretching you could become injured, thus missing many workouts, it’s vital, Koerber says. It’s also important to maintain your body’s range of motion as you age.

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Exercise, or lack of it, is a lifestyle choice that contributes significantly to our quality of life as we age. Experts recommend that for good health, adults achieve a minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week, 60 minutes for youth and 60 to 90 minutes for those who need to lose weight or maintain weight loss.

An honest look at your current level of activity and lifestyle habits will quickly help you to determine whether changes should be made. Luckily, it is never too late to begin.

Exercise is one of the best ways to maintain a healthy weight and prevent problems with muscles, joints and bones. Muscle and bone loss happen gradually and are examples of changes that we have the ability to slow down or even reverse. Our genetics, and changes in the brain and nervous system, influence the rate and the extent to which we lose muscle and bone density, but our level of physical activity also plays a huge role in this process.

Other lifestyle choices influence how we age, including smoking, stress, excess alcohol consumption and poor sleeping and nutritional habits. Along with regular resistance exercise for muscle and bone density, cardiovascular [aerobic] exercise is also important. Your heart is a muscle and needs regular workouts to help give it the best chance of staying strong and healthy. Cardiovascular exercise allows the heart to pump blood through your body more efficiently and has a positive effect on at least three major risk factors for heart disease — high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes.

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Wondering what to do with the packaging that your wiimote and nunchuck controller came in? Why not fill them with chocolate! We did.

They’re both stuffed with sponge fingers to fill them out a little, otherwise we’d have used a lot more chocolate. Not a bad thing in itself, but we didn’t have that much chocolate.

Monday Monday Monday. As a gamer, I’m starting to love Monday because I know we get new game releases in the coming week, and Nintendo updates it’s virtual console on Mondays as well. Here’s the list of what you should expect to show up at 9am PST/12pm EST.

• Donkey Kong™ Country (Super NES®, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
• The Legend of Kage (NES®, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
• New Adventure Island (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, 600 Wii Points)
• Streets of Rage™ (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)

As you can see, today would be a great day to spend 1600 Wii Points. I mean, who can overlook the ground-breaking Donkey Kong Country as well as the instant classic Streets of Rage. It looks like I’m going to have to pony up some more money into Nintendo’s virtual console.

Come back after the break for the official press release.