Workouts Should Hurt, and 9 Other Fitness Myths

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Most fitness professionals have seen or heard it all. Miracle diets, perfect workouts, promises of flat abs in two minutes a day. Chris Hoover, fitness supervisor at the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis, says he constantly sees people acting on that misinformation.

"I don't know what it is," he says. "They see a big muscle guy come in with his muscle magazine, and he sounds like he knows what he's talking about, so before you know it ... word of mouth, it's on someone's Web site, and suddenly everyone has this [wrong] information."

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Workouts Should Hurt, and 9 Other Fitness Myths

Jeremy Koerber, lead exercise specialist at BJC WellAware Center, agrees. "You've got this quasi-expert who has worked out for years, and maybe he did something and it worked, but maybe he just has th...

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