Bad Fitness Advice: What Not To Do To Get Fit

By Dr. Chloe Wisdom

Bad Fitness Advice is the story about one author's personal experience with fitness coaches and trainers and the dangerous, unhealthy, and stupid narratives she was sold by many of them over the years.

In the oversaturated and undereducated fitness industry, it is easy to be fooled by fitness influencers or coaches who appear fit and have many followers; but that does not mean they have smart, healthy, or foolproof strategies. She learned the hard way, but you don't have to! Read about what advice won't help you in your journey to achieving a bikini competitor look. Fitness continues to evolve as time marches on, but with that comes many bad actors. Join author Chloe Wisdom to ensure you dodge dangerous advice and find the way to the correct path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667849034

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1) Forward

If only I knew then what I know now. It would have saved me countless hours of cardio and weightlifting, gotten me more sleep and a larger calorie intake, saved me from unnecessary stress, and allowed me to set realistic expectations. Alas, you don’t know what you don’t know and so it took me years of learning the hard way, tens of thousands of dollars, several coaches, and hitting metabolic rock bottom to figure out how to get bikini competitor fit. This is a story about my journey and all the ass-backward advice I received from people in the oversaturated and under educated fitness industry and the incompetent side of bodybuilding trainers and coaches.

Photo by Dennis Cruz

2) Introduction

I have always been active and cared about my health and physical appearance. However, it wasn’t until 2012, on my second deployment to Afghanistan, that I really began lifting heavy and bodybuilding. I was 24 years old and despite being active and involved in sports for my entire youth and joining the Army at age 18, I had never given any thought to counting calories, paying attention to macronutrients, or caring what my bodyfat percentage was. Yet, there in a PX in Bagram, Afghanistan, I found myself looking at the cover of The Marine Times and being absolutely obsessed with Pauline Nordin’s muscular, yet feminine, physique. At the time, I could run 2 miles in 14:00 minutes, do 72 push-ups and 82 sit-ups in 2:00 minutes, and I worked out 5 days a week; but I did not look like her! Sure, I looked athletic, but I didn’t have the horseshoe triceps and chiseled abs this (then) 30-year-old international fitness model did. Why did she look like more of a badass, military female than I did? Woman or not, when I envisioned strength and grit, I pictured someone as strong and hard bodied as her, and that is the image I wanted people to see when they looked at me. I wanted to be the female version of GI Joe! And no, I didn’t want to look like GI Jane, she was tiny and didn’t look like she could scale a mountain carrying a 40lb rucksack or knock out 10 pull-ups upon entering and exiting a DFAC. I wanted to look strong and femininely jacked! So, then and there I dove into everything I could find about lifting heavy, counting calories, bodybuilding, and getting downright lean and mean. I ended up buying almost every single one of Pauline Nordin’s Fighter Diet plans, and despite being downrange, I followed her workouts and meal plans as closely as I could and achieved some