How it all started

If there's anything my 20+ years of exercising with weights taught me it is that there are very few absolute truths out there. I think it applies to every area of human activity but here I'm talking specifically about exercising and nutrition. I spent years reading and following advice of numerous programs and experts in my search for that ultimate "fitness" truth until I finally realized where the truth is. Inside. People lock horns over things that are often not truths but personal beliefs at best. Which of course makes them "truths" technically speaking because what you believe in does end up becoming your truth in the end.

So I decided to put together something like a list of statements - some of the major ones - that I ran across during my years of working out. I call them myths only by analogy with a "Mythbusters" TV show that I enjoy watching. I probably should have called them statements. Most of them have been served as "truths" or rules, some - as top secret "discoveries", many - as scientifically proved facts. I personally believed in all of them at different stages of my life! Some of them even contradict to each other. The funny thing is that all of them are true and all of them aren't. Often times it's the interpretation that distorts the original idea. That's the reason I don't want to call these things "myths". Because they are truths! Although only for those who chooses to believe they are! I choose to call them "open questions".

Anyways, as I was getting tired of hearing those things over and over again I set out on a quest to find original scientific research artifacts that would either prove those "myths" or "bust" them. I'll try to keep it as unbiased as I can.