Health & Medical sports & Exercise

How to Avoid Top Gym Injuries

Injuries are not good during your workouts and you should try to avoid it as much as you can.
You will be greatly frustrated  especially if you start seeing changes on your body the way you want and all of a sudden, you have to put a stop to it because you had an injury.
  Moreover, this can slow down your progress as some injuries can take weeks or months.
This means no workout at all for you to recover fast.
Keep an eye for those usual reasons why people get injured while inside the gym so you can avoid before it happens to you.
Otherwise, you will end up surprised an unappreciated.
To avoid them, here are some things you need to look at: Injury: Lower Back Pain This is common injury anybody can have.
There as some form of exercise, which are more dangerous for your lower back.
For instance, when you are lifting weights force, it comes down on the muscles tissues, which can eventually affect on lower back.
So what are the big exercise that can usually injure your lower back? They are the more common form of exercise, which are shoulder press, bench press, lateral raises and squats.
This is for most exercise routines, part of the instruction are to have your back in straight posture.
Avoid curving or moving it around you in the middle of your routine.
To get a better idea, when doing shorter press, imagine squeezing your butt muscles and pulling in your stomach as you push your weight overhead while doing a shoulder press.
Otherwise, you will get a sway in your back.
The same goes with bench press.
You have to make sure your lower back will not start lifting up off too much on the bench.
Some weight lifting is okay especially if it will help you push more weight.
However, if you do it too much, you are on your way to getting your lower back injured.
Injury: Knee Pain Second on the list is knee pain.
To avoid this, simply make sure that your knees are always following the toes when you are doing lunges, leg push, squats and step-ups.
Otherwise, grinding will occur that will cause you unbearable pain in your feet.
Injury: Tennis Elbow Third on the list would be tennis elbow.
And just because it says 'tennis' it doe not mean it can only happen to tennis players.
If you are not careful enough, you will not be spared from this injury.
Your elbow is the one that usually works hard during a workout as you extend it and doing this can gradually grind as well as wear and tear the joints and tendons.
  Keep an eye on the volume you are doing when you are performing bench presses or incline presses, as these two can worsen the tennis elbow injury.
If you start feeling pain, put an ice pack on the injured area afterwards and replace it with another form of exercise that will not force your elbow as much.
Injury: Pulled Groin Finally, be aware of the pulled groin injury.
This usually happens if you are doing heavy squats or lunges.
This may just be a simple muscle pull but can take you off your routines for weeks.
To avoid this one, you must know the appropriate and realistic weight your body can handle.
Additionally, make sure that you are properly warmed up before doing any exercises, as cold muscles while lifting heavy weights can also be an issue.
Try to look for injury prone routines or exercises so you can prevent injuries before they happened.
You should aim to stay pain-free and injury free during your workouts.
 

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