There’s a lot of mistakes you can perform during a bodybuilding routine in the gym. If you want huge muscles, there’s no other option but workout. You have to overload those muscles with heavy weight and high intensity if you want to see real results. This is without a doubt the most effective means of stimulating muscular growth.
An injury is the absolute last thing you could ever hope for, as it will stop you dead in your muscle-building tracks. Down below I’m going to outline my “5 golden rules” when it comes to minimizing the risk of injury. If you can honestly say that you implement all 5 of these into your training program, then your risk of getting hurt will be much lower than someone who does not.
1) Before you start your routine perform a proper warmup. There are 2 main reasons to perform it: If you don’t warmup adequately, your chances of injury will increase dramatically. And it will also affect the amount of weight that you are able to lift during your actual workout. When you perform the warmup in the right way, your possibilities to lift heavier weights increase. This will stimulate your heart and lungs. It will also increase the secretion of synovial fluid lubricating your joints.
2) Make sure that you are doing it right. Ask someone if you don’t know the right technique for a proper bench press or any other form of workout. Besides, if you’re doing the exercise wrong, you’ll probably end up stressing your joints making you more vulnerable to injuries. For example, when you are lifting up the dumbbells, you should never lower them with a jerk, since that easily result in tearing of the ligaments.
3) Compete only with yourself. There may be a lot of huge guys in your gym. If you try to compete with them, if you want to train in the same way that them…it’s a sure thing that you’ll get an injurie. There’ll be a time when you’ll be able to do that, until that time, the record you have to beat is your own record.
4) Never try to over-train. If you feel that you can’t handle it anymore, the best thing to do is stop and take some rest until the next set. This situation, perhaps is the most injury-prone that you can ever get yourself into.
5) Never ignore your aches and pains. When you’re motoring along through a training program and are making progress from week to week, the idea of quitting just seems impossible. This can sometimes lead us to ignore those obvious injuries and pretend as if they aren’t really there as we often “work through” the pain and hope that it magically disappears.
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