Top ten myths about exercise that need to be busted

Most of us must have stepped inside a gym purposefully this January to honour their resolution of staying fit the whole year. This makes it all the more important to know about all those half-truths and lies that do rounds as ‘fitness advice’.

Elliott Morgan, from Mental Floss, dispels ten of such common myths in a YouTube video titled ‘Misconceptions about Exercise’. So, if you thought that running on a treadmill would result in less knee injury or that running shoes should be replaced every six months, we have to break it to you that – both are completely untrue.

Ensure that you don’t fall prey to such myths and work on your mission to get those abs you have been dreaming about by checking out the video below: