Fitness Trick Or Treat?

Happy Halloween! Trick-or-treating is the most popular tradition during this time of year, but I'm going to put a little twist on it.

1. You lose weight in the reverse order you put it on
   
   
   
2. You need to drink 8 cups of 8 ounces of water a day
   
   


3. Muscle weighs more than fat
   
   
   
4. If you walk one mile or jog one mile you burn the same amount of calories
   
   


5. You need to belong to a gym to get fit
   
   
   
6. Muscle can turn to fat and fat can turn to muscle
   
   


7. You can spot train your trouble areas
   


8. You should do core training before your strenght or cardio workout
   


9. If you do cardio you do not need to strength train your lower body
   

Answers:

1.Treat

2.Trick, more recent studies recommend half your body weight in ounces

3.Trick, muscle is more dense than fat. A pound is a pound, so a pound of muscle and a pound of fat weigh the same. The fat is more volumous.

4. Treat, both are roughly around 100 calories

5.Trick, there are many outdoor, in home, recreational, you can do to stay in shape.

6.Trick, you have a set # of muscle and fat cells, they increase and decrease in size depending on your fitness level, nutrition, etc. When you don't workout your muscle cells shrink (atrophy) and your fat cells may grow (hypertrophy).

7. Trick, this is what infomercials want you to think. Doing 500 crunches a day alone will not get you a six pack.

8.Treat

9. Trick