stupid advice on exercise

I spent years looking through articles on running, biking, swimming, yoga, weight lifting, and so on. I still read several fitness magazines on a monthly basis. I enjoy reading about the topic, but I have to say that it is not very often these days that I read something and think, Oh, I must try that. Way more often, I read something and thing--that is completely wrong or untested.

So, as a prelude to a later post on stupid advice on writing that I hear at conferences, I thought I would wri...