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Ten
Great Myths of Physical Fitness
保持身体健康的十大误区（1）
早晨是锻炼的最佳时间段?
运动量越强，消耗热量就越快?
想快些减肥，慢跑时就应多穿一套运动衣（这样就能多出汗）？
坚持练举重，就会有健美运动员那样的身材和肌肉？
[1]One of the most striking 『显著的；突出的』characteristics
『特征，特点』of the fitness boom『热潮』is how little many people seem to
know about the subject. Predictably『可预见地』, beginners are the worst
culprits『犯错误者』, but sometimes even those who've been exercising
for years have erroneous『错误的；不正确的』ideas about how exercise and their
bodies work. Here are some of the most common misconceptions『误解，错误的观念』:
[1]健身热潮的显著特征之一是很多人对于健身这项运动认识太少。不难想象，新参加健身的人是常犯错误的，但有时即使是健身多年的人对于运动和身体机能仍有误解，以下就是一些最常见的错误观点。
【额外成就感】
That is a striking commercial success.
（在商业上那是惊人的成功。）
The girl is striking in face and figure.
（姑娘的容貌和身材都十分出众。）
Myth 1: I've been doing 100 sit-ups『仰卧起坐』and
side bends a day for weeks. Why can't I get rid of my spare tire『多余的脂肪』?
误区一：我连续几星期坚持每天做一百个仰卧起坐和侧弯腰，为什么还是不能除去多余的脂肪呢？
[2]Because spot『部位』reduction is virtually『事实上；实际上』impossible.
"When you utilize『利用』fat it comes from a pool of lipids 『脂类』-fatty
substances-throughout the body, not from one specific location,"
says physiologist『生理学家』Robert M. Otto, director of the Human Performance
Laboratory at Adelphi University in Garden City, N. Y. Sit-ups,
he points out, are fine for toning『使沉重，结实』the abdominal『腹部的』muscles,
but they won't melt fat away『消散；消失』."
[2]原因是，要想在某一部位减肥事实上是不可能的。罗伯特·奥托，生理学家，来自纽约州达登市阿德非大学人类行为学实验室主任，指出�"要消耗的脂肪是来自整个身体里的很多脂肪类物质，犹如潭中取水，不是来自某一特定的部位。仰卧起坐可以增强腹部肌肉，但对于减少脂肪却无能为力。"
[3] So how do you lose fat? It seems relatively
simple: just burn off『烧掉；消耗掉』more calories『卡路里，热量单位』through exercise
than you take in through food. Even then, explains Dr.Jack Harvey,
a physician for the U.S. wrestling『摔跤』team, problem weight may be
the last to go: "there's a genetic『基因的』predisposition『倾向』to
lay down 『放下』fat in certain areas. We lose weight last from the
place we put it on first." For most men, that will be in the
abdominal or side areas, and for most women, the upper thighs, buttocks『臀部』and
arms.
[3]那么如何减肥呢？似乎很简单，只要通过锻炼，燃烧掉比从食物中摄入的热量多就行了。美国摔跤队医生杰克·哈维解释说，即使这样，"问题"部位的重量可能是最后才能除去的，他说："除去某些部位的脂肪具有一种遗传倾向性，先增加的脂肪要到最后才能除去。"对于大多数男性来说，这样的部位在腹部和体侧，而对于女性来说是大腿上侧，臀部和胳膊。
Myth 2: If I keep lifting weights 『举重』, I'm
going to end up looking like one of those heavily muscled body builders.
误区二：如果坚持练举重，到头来我会有重量级健美运动员那样的身材和肌肉。
[4]Don't worry, you won't-not unless you're
the one in a million with the genes 『基因』of an Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Even then, you'd have to endure『忍耐；忍受』the same kind of grueling
『筋疲力尽』，high-intensity『高强度』workouts that most body builders do. "The
average person who works out three times a week for a half-hour
will never get this look," notes Dr. Robert J. Murphy, head
team physician and clinical associate professor of medicine at Ohio
State University.
[4] 大可放心，你不会成功的。除非你有阿诺德·施瓦辛格的基因，但其可能性微乎其微，只有百万分之一。即使那样，你还必须象大多数健美运动员那样进行高强度的锻炼，这种锻炼常常是使人筋疲力尽的。俄亥俄州立大学医务主任临床医学副教授罗伯特·J·墨菲医生提出："一般人每星期锻炼三次，每次半小时，根本不会变成健美运动员那样�"
Myth 3: I don't really need to lose weight.
I just want to firm up『稳固；牢固』and redistribute『重新分配』what I've got.
误区三：我并不为减肥，只是想使肌肉结实，重新分配身体的重量。
[5]"You can't redistribute weight,"
says Otto flatly『断然地』. "We're talking about two different elements-fat,
and lean 『瘦的，非脂肪的』body mass, which includes muscle, bone and internal『体内的；内部的』organs."
If you want to maintain your same basic weight, it's a two-part
process: you need to lose fat while gaining lean body tissue『组织』.
There's simply no way fat can be "firmed up" into muscle.
[5]奥托断然说到："你不可能重新分配身体的重量，我们谈论的是两种不同的成份-脂肪和非脂肪物质。非脂肪物质包括：肌肉，骨胳和内脏器官。"假如你要保持同样的体重，这一过程需要两个步骤：增加非脂肪组织，同时除去脂肪。然而，脂肪转化成结实的肌肉却是绝对不可能的。
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