Many articles are written about bodybuilding nutrition, training, and supplementation. However, one key element of bodybuilding success is often overlooked. Despite being the foundation for all other bodybuilding success, most trainers don’t even consider thinking about injury prevention until they experience their first injury. Injuries to the body – whether they are muscle, tendon, or otherwise – prevent bodybuilders from training to their full capacity, and therefore result in lost bodybuilding progress. Here are six keys to remember which just might keep you in the gym, and off the injured reserve list. Consistency Many injuries occur when a trainer is attempting to come back from a short or extended layoff. Ten reps on the flat bench with 225 might have been a good warm-up when you were training all the time. But after a break, your body ...

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Bodybuilders, both natural and chemically assisted, often feel invincible. After all, they are 20 to 40 pounds bigger, and much more muscular, than anyone in every room they enter. They are strong, powerful, and generally feel that as long as they eat, train, and rest by the rules; they will feel this strong forever. Age and chance are two influences which often feel otherwise. As we age, our tendons lose some of their flexibility. It becomes harder to move our arms and legs than it was twenty years ago. Cartilage in the joints naturally wears away, making the likelihood of an injury increase. Additionally, thanks to chance, we never know precisely the moment when our muscles will prove to be too strong for our tendons, and damage will occur. We do know, however, that ...

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Sometimes injuries are inevitable especially when you are training with weights. However although weight training is risky, it has many benefits. Some of the benefits include; It helps reduce the adverse effects of aging such as osteoporosis thus you will be able to enjoy your old age, it helps enhance your strength and flexibility because it leads to an increase in muscle size, weight training also help you boost your metabolism because it leads to an increase in lean muscle tissues, weight training leads to loss of fat as a result of increase in body metabolism, weight training also improves you posture because it increase the ratio of muscles to fat, if you are an athlete then weight training will help you boost your performance, weight training is also useful in boosting your psychological health. If you carefully consider all the above benefits ...

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Obviously if you are in Florida don't bother reading this article. Up here in New England we have a lot of opportunity to get a full body workout from this chore, about 3-6 times per year. This is a heavy duty workout for sure. It should be looked at as just that. The same rules apply as with other high intensity workouts. if you are over fifty years old, or have a heart condition,or high blood pressure consult your doctor before tackling shoveling snow. Unfortunately many people die from this activity because it isn't looked at as being as strenuous as it really is. Use caution. There is another factor to be concerned with when engaging in this activity. Slip and fall injuries. Obviously snow and ice is a slippery substance and ensuing fall can break wrists, sprained ankles and even ...

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The bodybuilding training pendulum seems to swing, every few years, from “power” training to “pump” training. For a few years, you’ll have the classical, Zane-like physiques winning top bodybuilding shows, and everyone in every gym in America will be training with isolation exercises, completing high-rep sets, and trying to “pump” their way to a symmetrical physique. Then, a few years later when most people have tired of the swimmer look, powerful physiques will return to the forefront of magazine covers and bodybuilding stages. Soon, you’ll have every kid in America squatting, benching, and dead lifting their way through 3-rep sets in attempts to be the biggest guy in the gym. Though the pendulum swings every few years, it appears we are certainly currently entrenched in a “power” phase, where the bigger man is considered better, and the ...

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As more and more people are getting into bodybuilding, and the levels of quality bodybuilding physique continue to rise, a new epidemic is beginning to become prevalent: Nerve injuries. Advanced training techniques, heavier poundages, and chemical advances also lead to higher instances. Nerve damage is a serious cause of delay and sometimes failure in bodybuilding careers, and any symptoms of it should be addressed immediately with your physician. Causes Nerve injuries, or peripheral nerve injuries to be more precise, occur when excessive trauma, stretching, or compression occurs in a muscle group. Symptoms Any sort of tingling, pain, weakness, or numbness in muscle group area could be a sign of nerve damage, particularly if sensation continues for weeks. Testing An examination of the affected area for physical response as well as nerve conductivity leads your doctor to making a determination. This is not something that ...

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From aching body joints, stiff backbones to sore muscles, bodybuilders are always complaining of injuries and impairments that shadow their gym lives. Injuries are second to normalcy to any bodybuilder or athlete though more prevalent to those who are in full bodybuilding excursions, due to that psychological or physical stress that has been placed upon the body. Injuries cannot be just wished away and might cost one the gains one has labored, by missing work outs, lack of sleep as well as ending that promising career. It is thus paramount to be aware of the different injuries that one at a specific period in the order of training experience or be inflicted with. Injuries are very widespread and a lot. Tendonitis is one type of injuries which reflects the inflammation of ones tendons which connect the body muscles to the ...

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Q:  I am recovering from an arm injury. Someone told me to use German Volume Training because it will stimulate muscles enough to keep size and maybe continue growing. Is that true or false? A: Well I'd say you have nothing to lose in this case, because most arm injuries sideline bodybuilders for all upper body work until they are healed, so any amount of maintenance, let alone gain, will be good. My personal opinion is that GVT is good for working around injuries because the weight doesn't feel heavy. I've used it for arm exercises such as curls, lateral raises for shoulders and on the Smith machine with front squats and find it moderately effective. I also use it for dips once I've been doing dips for awhile and have my joint strength back. Point is, you're wanting to ...

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