&quot;The education in popular culture around exercising presents it as a magic pill, as being a major driving force behind weight loss. You see this on magazine covers and on tv, &quot;belly fat exercises&quot;, &quot;toning exercises&quot;&quot;<p>There&#x27;s def some of that going on, but there&#x27;s also a fair amount of fad diets - atkins, south beach, paleo etc etc popping up here and there.<p>The fact that you get the 6 pack by dieting and not by doing crunches is common knowledge in the &quot;lifting community&quot;, on the flip side - lifting when dieting is also important to maintain body comp.<p>And then of course there&#x27;s the obvious fact that &quot;losing weight&quot; != &quot;losing fat&quot; which makes articles like this not only click-baity but also bordering on being misinformative.