I agree to a certain extent but if I had complete rest every time I had a niggle I would never end up training.
It's like starting a car in the middle of ice storm, you can't just rev her up and put your foot on the excelerator. You need to start her, let her idle and warm up for 5 minutes or so, rev the engine a couple of times to give her some guts...and then proceed, cautiously, until she's thoroughly heated.
My workouts always consist of 10-15 minute warm ups first. Never go in cold, your muscles need to be woken up first and stretched and warmed.
That is a terrible analogy. The human body is always on and warm, a car is off and dead cold and that is why it needs to be warmed up to be lubricated. Warming up properly can help some peoples performance by stimulating neural pathways but in terms of muscle tissue it is not needed. I have had people do extensive warmups and injure themselves and have others never warmups properly and yet have no issues. Most people love to blame lack of a warmup for their injury yet most times is a slip up in form, pushing one to many reps or going to heavy.
Bella, you see, I don't even use a warmup with the exeption of squatting, but that's just one set to "grease the groove" so to speak.
I just get stuck into the work set, if the exercise is smooth and controlled there is no risk of injury, by the time you get to that last rep the risk of injuring the muscle is zero.
That is a terrible analogy. The human body is always on and warm, a car is off and dead cold and that is why it needs to be warmed up to be lubricated. Warming up properly can help some peoples performance by stimulating neural pathways but in terms of muscle tissue it is not needed. I have had people do extensive warmups and injure themselves and have others never warmups properly and yet have no issues. Most people love to blame lack of a warmup for their injury yet most times is a slip up in form, pushing one to many reps or going to heavy.
I'd still keep training the areas that work, pain free.
When I tore my meniscus I stopped squatting of course, rested and walked out the problem along with leg extensions and SLDL's.
The only thing that does not make my knee flair up is squatting and leg extensions, walking or any form of sport especially squash aggravates it.
I was guilty at some point in time using the car analogy and I would often say "would you work on a car without the reading the manual", but we are not machines.
It's usually the first rep that is where the damaged is caused and the last rep is the safest and most productive.
I would have to agree the first rep can be the most dangerous.
In regards to your warmup Bella I have found women tend to need more of a warmup than guys (just in general) before feeling it and most perform better in the second set. I believe it is mostly psychological but I could be wrong. Still in regards to injury I have yet to see or read any convincing evidence to show a warm up is better and a lot of evidence that stretching is worse (unless a specific muscle group is impeeding the movement).
What they're saying is Bella, it's very hard to know EXACTLY what keeps you injury free. You may think it's warm-ups, but that's virtually impossible to 100% prove. You're not getting injured, but how is that 100% proven to be because of warm-ups? It's not. Which is why there is so much conjecture about the whole warm-up process right now.
There are givens in this world (death, taxes) and there is really really good proof (overloading muscles with work makes them evetually tire, and grow somewhat in response) and there is stuff that makes us feel good that we think might work (warm-ups, giving our Mum presents).
The last 2 are not 100% proven.
Well I did just say it works for me.
And for the record, giving gifts, always makes you feel good, the proof is in intangible and unable to be chartered on that one, but the feeling itself...is enough proof for me
Giving gifts might always make you feel good, but it's not a given the receiver will appreciate it (especially Mums I find).
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