Workout Injuries and How to Avoid Them

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:39:19 +0000

Muscle soreness is one thing, but how can you tell the difference between soreness and an injury to your body? If you injure yourself during a workout you will usually feel a sharp pain or visible swelling. Or if you have inflamed a body part, you will feel a dull, nagging pain in that area. Either way, you will know intuitively that something is wrong with your body.

Here’s how to avoid workout injuries:

We can’t say it too many ties in too many ways: Always warm up before exercising and cool down after! Warm up exercises are designed to elevate your muscle temperature slightly and prepare your body for the workout. Muscles are like furnaces. They produce heat and this makes them more pliable, like putty, and in that state your body is adequately prepared for exercising. Afterwords, cooldown exercises focus on stretching for flexibility, joint health and muscle protection.

Never jerk or pull a weight abruptly as this can lead to torn ligaments and joint trauma.

Don’t be overenthusiastic and lift weights that are clearly too heavy for you.

Listen to your body signals that you may be doing too much or exercising incorrectly. If something doesn’t feel right, stop immediately. Signs that you are overtaxing your body include muscle and joint pain, swelling and fatigue. Additionally, women may even stop menstruating.

Muscle Soreness and Workout Safety Tips

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:56:18 +0000

Every time you exercise, you may feel some degree of muscle soreness. This soreness is a normal muscle response to unaccustomed exercise and stimulation after neglect. Muscle soreness is actually a good thing, as long as it is not too severe, because it is a sign that you adequately stressed your muscle fibers. In about 48 hours, your muscles will repair themselves and become stronger. Even so, there are ways to minimize muscle soreness:

Warm up thoroughly before workout. This will increase your body temperature and make your body more resistant to muscle soreness.

Always perform cooldown stretches following your workout. They increase blood flow to and from the exercised muscles ensuring better delivery of nutrients and hormones for recovery and repair as well as flush out chemical waste products that lead to soreness.

Enjoy a nice hot bath after your workout. It’s all the better if you can apply water-jet massage from a Jacuzzi tub. Researches indicate that water-jet massage increases the release of proteins from muscle tissue into the blood and helps reduce muscle soreness after a taxing workout.

Also, don’t let muscle soreness sideline you and stick to you workout schedule. If you stop working out, you will only get sore again the next time you exercise. As long as you properly warm up, any sore body parts will be massaged by the repetitions of the exercising stimulating blood flow through the sore muscles for a healing effect

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Workout Injuries and How to Avoid Them

Muscle Soreness and Workout Safety Tips