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The diet and fitness industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars across the world. It seems everyone is looking to get healthier and improve their fitness levels. Whether the reason is purely aesthetic, or you have other fitness and health goals, people are prepared to pay a lot of money.
However, there is a lot of misinformation out there as well as a frankly unscrupulous company trying to sell products and services promising fast results with minimal effort. In many cases, these products are useless and sometimes dangerous.
If like many others, you’re planning to get your health and fitness act together in 2022, one of the best things you can do is educate yourself and seek out trustworthy sources of information.
Learn about exercise and physiology lot of products and exercise programs make very spurious claims about what can realistically be achieved in your journey to a healthier you. The very best thing you can do is learn about how the body works and the best types of exercise for your goals. There are pros and cons for both cardio and strength training. You can consult
with a personal trainer or even build a bodybuilding trainer course to make sure you have the right information with which to build your exercise routine.
Learn about nutrition
It’s a common misconception that weight loss is down to exercise, when in fact it’s about 80% nutrition and 20% exercise. The diet industry is full of fad diets that promise quick fixes but often make you feel miserable and put weight back on when you begin eating normally again.
One of the best skills you can learn is how to fuel your body well without resorting to starving yourself of dangerous diet products.
Find trustworthy sites
If you’re like most people, you probably head to Google to look for information on health and fitness. But what appears at the top of the search results is just the information with the best SEO, not necessarily the correct information.
Choose sites that have scientifically backed information on them such as WebMD, Healthline, or the Department of Health. If you’re unsure of whether an article is trustworthy, look at the sources it is quoting and verify them yourself in other places.
Choose your social media influencers carefully
There are many fantastic fitness influencers out there, who know what they are talking about and give great advice to their followers. Unfortunately, there are a lot of influencers who are also giving out very bad information and pushing items that don’t work or are dangerous in order to sell products. When you start following someone on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, don’t just take everything they say as truth. Always do other research and remember that many of them get paid to promote products.
Takeaways
To give yourself the very best chance of reaching your health and fitness goals, educating yourself on your body, nutrition and exercise are some of the best things that you can do to make sure you achieve them safely while building great habits for life.
