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Mistake 1: Working "Hard"

Devon says, "it's very common for people to prioritize intense workout sessions and workouts that *feel* hard, followed by some light weight training and then maybe focus a little bit on eating 'healthier'." Just because you're sweating buckets, with a beet-red face, running for an hour on the treadmill doesn't automatically mean you're burning fat. Meghan Nagel, the manager of fitness programming at Virtual Health Partners, agrees and says, "Sweating isn't the best measure of workout effectiveness."