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