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Weightlifting Injuries

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July 17, 2008

To get the perfect body shape is the dream of every person. Like most the physical activities in which repetitive or vigorous movement is involved, weight training can cause injuries. If compared to other sports like football its injury rates are relatively very low.

To prevent injury it is necessary to have information about the facts that may cause injury. Many persons undoubtedly don’t like injuries and also want to lower the chances of incurring an injury while participating in their favorite sport. Injuries decrease the amount of time that can spend in leisure activities, lower your fitness, downgrade competitive performance, and can lead to long term health problems such as arthritis.

For body builders there are many causes for joint injury but it can be avoided by training, nutrition, supplementation and recovery tactics.

Causes of weightlifting injuries
Excessive weightlifting is one of the prominent reasons of having injury.
People who do bench press may take care of elbows and shoulders as these parts are mostly affected by doing this particular kind of weightlifting.
Over weightlifting can cause tears on the tendons which can lead to tendonitis.
The amount of training can also be the reason of having injury, if you go through with injury predictor it may tell you amount of training you do last month and how much is good to prevent from injuries.
Our joint requires rest and nutrition. Lack of nutrition in body may lead to less able body and stress. If one continues to take poor nutrition than micro tears can start tendons as well as deterioration of the cartilage in the joints, which will give way to strain in joints.
Muscle stiffness refers to the ratio between change in muscle resistance and muscle strength. Muscle stiffness is directly resulting to muscle injury so it is important to get rid of muscle stiffness.

Prevention from weightlifting injuries
Warm-up exercises, such as stretching and light jogging, can help minimize the chance of muscle strain or other soft tissue injury during weightlifting or any sport. Warm-up exercises make the body’s tissues warmer and more flexible as well as cooling down exercises loosen the body’s muscles that have tightened during exercise. You can make warm-ups and cool-downs part of your routine before and after weightlifting participation.
Use the appropriate weight training surfaces.
Avoid training when you are tired.
Check every equipment before practicing.
You have to introduce new activities as per your comfort.

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