| When a body builder becomes the slightest bit | | | | faster than you can say fast. If the barbell gets out of |
| careless during workouts, he or she entices injuries like | | | | control or the dumbbell strays from the correct path, it |
| flowers attract bees when they sprout. Just in front of | | | | can wreak extreme havoc within an instant. |
| a body builder at all times, is the possibility of muscle | | | | The thing to remember here is that each human body |
| injury. This is because the weights used in training are | | | | part has some very distinct biomechanical pathways, |
| a danger themselves if used without due caution. | | | | which if exceeded under a weight, results to extreme |
| Experts agree that there is something intrinsic and | | | | muscle damage. Your arms and legs can and should |
| inherently dangerous when it comes to pushing, pulling, | | | | only move within certain pathways, especially when |
| tugging, lifting and straining against the cold, solid-hard | | | | you are under the stress of weight. Keeping to this |
| iron bars in weight training, and doing it with all your | | | | technically perfectionist methods of muscular |
| strength. A slight fall, an incident of loosing balance, a | | | | movement is what we call correct exercise form. |
| slip, a loss of grip or even a miss of accuracy while | | | | Each exercise should be done in due respect to its |
| placing, lifting or pushing weight can and sometimes do | | | | integrity, without twisting, twitching, turning or contorting |
| send potential body builders to the wheelchair for the | | | | the body while pushing the weight. |
| rest of their lives. Yet these same weights are the | | | | 2. Training with Too Much Weight |
| fastest surest way of stimulating maximal muscle | | | | When a body builder uses too much weight while |
| growth. | | | | performing an exercise, the risks of getting injured are |
| The following two represent the most common | | | | compounded in an equal proportion to the extra weight |
| causes of accidents in the gym and the causes of the | | | | added on the optimum. Over load taken to the |
| most serious muscle injuries among body builders in | | | | extremes comes not with more muscle gains but rife |
| weight training. | | | | with muscle injuries. The reason is simple; while training |
| 1. Using the Incorrect Exercise Technique | | | | with a weight too heavy for your body strength and |
| Indeed, the most frequent weight training injuries in the | | | | endurance, it becomes easy for the weight to slip out |
| gym, are caused by poor exercising techniques | | | | of control during a lift or a push. |
| employed mostly by beginners and careless body | | | | Secondly a weight that's too heavy is lowered much |
| builders. By incorrect technique, we refer to those | | | | too fast, such that it moves beyond the biomechanical |
| movements done using weights but they exceed the | | | | boundaries of a muscle. Thirdly, a body builder using |
| natural limit of motion for a particular muscle group. | | | | too much weight that he or she can handle must jerk |
| Exerting the hands beyond their natural cyclical limits, or | | | | or heave it before lifting it. Those three signals are |
| the hands, back or legs, usually pulls, rips or wrenches | | | | indicative of danger. An ideal weight should be at most |
| the particular muscle to injury. Incorrect movement also | | | | one and a half times the body tare weight, with |
| tears the delicate connective tissues in a muscle, | | | | specific limits for individual exercises and body parts. |