McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Breaking Myth: Exercise Misconceptions That Changed My Life

9 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A personal monologue by McCall McPherson describing how common exercise myths (e.g., using exercise to "burn off" food, needing excessive exercise to be smaller, gendered assumptions about lifting) led her to over-exercise during physical therapy school and group fitness teaching; learning that these beliefs were largely false changed her results, physical well‑being, and teaching approach.

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So I have a very personal reason for educating the way I do specifically, and it's because I was one of those people that believed everything I was sold about exercise. That you can use exercise to burn off what you eat, that you have to exercise a lot to be smaller, that, you know, at one point I thought, like, women do yoga and Pilates or cardio and light weights, and they don't lift heavy weights. And so now when I realized 99% of the things were sold are untrue, it has changed my life, it has changed my results. It's changed how I feel physically. So I started in kind of after college when I was in physical therapy school, developing a habit of over exercising. So I was teaching group fitness at the time. And then I would also go do my own workouts. So there would be days where I was, you know, teaching and then working out and lifting and doing yoga and so much activity and so much intense activity, and it was all fine until it wasn't right.