Avoid injury

It seems like every faggot who weightlifts gets injured, has to have surgery or some other for of cuckery, how to avoid injury? Books, guides. articles, videos.. I'm all open.

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just use machines. barbells are retarded and dangerous

Lift big, take risks. If you're not willing to risk injury stick to ottermode or light ripped and it's nearly impossible to get injured without being retarded

Just make sure your form doesn't suck and progress at a natural rate. I have a 1500lb total with 4 years lifting and my worse injury was something with my SI joint a year and a half ago and I was only unable to lift for a week because of that.

Follow matt wennings stuff how he trains and warms up. Record holding powerlifter for years no injuries at all. Rotation of excercises, isolating hamstrings before squatting and doing his 300 rep warmups will help injury proof you but mainly it's just paying attention to your training and taking recovery seriously and not just chilling until the next workout. Most people warm up like bitches or just do some squats with the bar and then don't feel truly warmed up and safe to squat till halfway through the working sets.

Also look at adding some unilateral leg work like split squats in your warm ups and using terminal knee extensions with a band.

If you're asking about weightlifting specifically then just don't weightlift unless you are genetically awesome at it. You are literally just throwing weights around at some point it will go wrong and just get you.

Sometimes shit happens, I had damn near perfect form on bench (touch n go to chest, no bouncing, elbows tucked) and still strained a pec muscle. More likely due to being on a cut and my diet wasn’t on point. The injury lasted about 6 months until it went away. This is also about 6 years into lifting.

Muscle stains are by far the most common injury, but if they're not severe enough you'll probably lift through the pain and without proper prehab before lifting and rehab outside of the gym it can make the recovery time take even longer.

stay mad injurycuck

Forgot to mention look up Joe Defrancos limber 11 and his knee prehab excercises are some of the best lower body warmups and prehab stuff you can do just everyday when you are bored to keep mobility and stability in your lower body.

If you don't have a set of bands at home you use for shoulders and just generally doing mobility work in your spare time you need to if you plan on a long shelf life in excercise.

Also just wear knee bands on squats and heavy knee movements more often. Just cause harry squatter only uses a white rag on his knee doesn't mean your knees can be invincible too.

Don't do meme exercises like squats and deadlifts

How do I squat heavy without risking blowing my knees out? My right knee gets a little red after leg day, otherwise don't have a history of leg injury.

My dad has gout, though.

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I know you say shit happens but I like matt wennings view on this were it doesn't just happen. There's many factors that you could control, was your volume too high for your calorie cut? Was your warm-up inadequate? Recovery poor from last session due to bad sleep or training sessions between? Did you ignore niggles or aches in your body before the session?

I know myself I've looked back at injuries in the gym and realized it was something I could have controlled like a quick jump in weight or poor balance in my routine like undertraining upper back for weeks and fucking my bench up because of it.

Wear knee sleeves for max comfiness, stoic makes a pair that are a good price for the product. Squat with as little forward knee travel as possible to reduce torque on the knee joint.

Your squat from is prob jacked up, start doing box squats and sumo deads instead. Start warming up your hamstrings before you squat and practice goblet squats until you can box squat and goblet squat knee pain free.

I feel like people watch some YouTube videos of people doing deep ass oly squats and just think they can do whatever they want with their knees on the squat. Get your ass back and avoid forward knee travel until you are strong and mobile enough to maintain glute and hamstring activation even at the bottom of the lift most people can't do this and should stick to powerlifting style squats. Don't just do ATG and relax at the bottom and try bounce out.

Well yea I contribute the injury to high volume on a cut and probably a poor sleep schedule. But I was having a great lift that day and on a heavier set it just happened. Felt a pop in my outer pec and couldn’t hit chest at all for a couple weeks.

>terminal knee extensions
But I don't want to die

My point is your decision to lift on bad sleep and low food caused an injury but you could have gone lighter that day knowing these factors where against you if you wanted to avoid injury.

Thanks for the feedback mates, I'll tone it down a bit and make sure my form is up-to-snuff. All my squats are ATG (don't sit at the bottom, just down/up), so it could definitely be the torque/shearing of not stopping at parallel.

fuck it dude, i have lifted and i've not lifted, done fight sports, blah blah..

you will get injured doing anything, minimize what you can but those who go a lifetime in any sport without eventually having some kind of ailment or surgery are a statistical speck

just deal with it man

tldr; it goes like this: hill, skateboard, car, collarbone.

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To be clear nothing wrong with atg but if you are getting knee pain then your hamstrings are not helping out enough and you should use a box squat or wide stance style to help with that, slowly bring back ATG squats at lower weight while also doing heavier wider squats and to wake up the hamstrings in the squat.

Also just try doing 3 or 4 sets of light light 25 rep hamstring work before your squats.

It’s because these retards fly too close to the sun.

STOP DOING ANYTHING THAT'S NOT CABLES OR BANDS

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Is there a kind of "safe" weight with which you're very unlikely to get an injury? Say, you squat your bodyweight +/-

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Well I put a few more warmup sets between the empty bar and my working weight.

thanks brah matt wennings looks like an awesome dude

>going heavy on OHP
>feel pop in upper back
>severe pain for a week
>doctor says my rib got out of whack and popped it back in place
>be 3 weeks later
>doing heavy on OHP again
>feel pop in same place
>only feel a tiny bit of pain, like 1/20 of the pain as last time
>stop immediately and workout is ruined
>sit in hot tub wishing I could lift heavy without my body breaking

forgot tfw

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I only do climbing/bouldering to stay fit, however I’m prone to sore elbows after training for too long/often in one week, what do? Warm up more? Stretch more? Specific warmups? The stuff on YouTube seems nigh pointless