Body Banao

Your training should be a source of enjoyment and not a way to get injured. Yet there are many who hurt themselves unintentionally. This article covers some mistakes that if avoided will keep the trainee safe.

#1. Lack of Warm Up
When you warm up, you are getting your muscles ready for intense training. Warm muscles are lo more elastic as compared to cold ones and do not experience lot of stress and strain once you begin working out.

#2. Inadequate Stretching
After warming up your muscle, next thing to do is to stretch them. It will lower your muscles from being strained during exercises.

#3. Lifting Weight beyond capacity
We are conditioned to believe, more is better. While lifting heavy weights is fine, it should be done slowly and gradually. A novice should not lift weights that exceed his strength capacity. Lifting heavy weights very quickly will quickly expose your muscles and joints to injury by putting weights on your body that it is unprepared for.

#4. Yanking When Lifting Weights
Always keep weights under your control. Lift weights gradually, and bring them down slowly. Prevent weight from being your boss, thus making you drop it. If you tend to yank when raising weight, choose light weights and lift under control and then move on to the heavy weights once your body can put up with heavy weights.

#5. Exercising with high Intensity
This is also a reflection of ‘more is better’ attitude. Trying to recover the time lost by doing hard work for longer duration is a precursor to injury. Exercise at medium intensity 3-4 times per weak. Very hard lifting more frequently will make you prone to injury.

#6. Exercising with very low intensity
Though any amount of activity is superior to zero activity, you can enjoy lot better health by exercising moderately lot of time.

#7. Inadequate Water Intake
Your body is losing water 24×7, irrespective of whether you are up or sleeping, active or sedentary. The amount of water lost goes up when you exercise. It is important you replace this water when you are awake. Drink water whether you are at home or in office.