10 Tips To Help Avoid Injuries :

10 Tips To Help Avoid Injuries :

1.. Train your body as a whole. Don't disco train the muscle groups you only show in public.

2. Video your form on all exercises and then analyze. Do it with work weight, not just light weight. Form changes when effort goes Up.

3. Check your posture. If you're rotated forward in your shoulders, adding more pec, lat and biceps work without adding tons of back and rear delt workout = you're going to get hurt.
4. Know that most people are quad dominant. This means squats can sabotage your knees UNLESS you work the booty and hamstrings hard. Avoid stimulating banana legs.

5. Work the weak links religiously: rotator cuff, lower traps, glute medius, wrist extensors, rear delts, erectors, hamstrings, abs.

6. Always do unilateral work to avoid building one dominant side more and more and weaken the weak.

7. Stretch the muscle groups you are prone to get tight. Note that consistent tightness in muscle groups can indicate weakness of that muscle group. For instance, tight hip flexors can be WEAK hip flexors.

8. Don't cheat on your workouts more than you can get away with. If you're getting PAIN (not regular good soreness), you need to take a gentler approach. Not all bodies can tolerate annihilation on a weekly basis.

9. Don't rush into a new workout routine and assume you won't get the wear and tear pain. BUILD UP the strength bit by bit. If you go from nothing to everything, your body will say, HELL NO.

10. Do NOT take NSAIDs to mask pain or to train around injury. The inflammation process post training is necessary to grow muscle. Kill that and you kill gains.