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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Q: I have been bodybuilding now for about 3 years and am developing nicely. My question isn’t about how to make a body part grow, it’s about injury prevention. I understand how to avoid injury to the knees when working legs, and how to avoid injuries to other body parts, but am a little unclear about preventing shoulder injury and wanted to know what to avoid and what to do? A: Shoulders are one of the most important body part/ joints in which to preserve soundness. They make all upper body exercises possible, just as knees make all lower body work possible, and are about as crucial to a bodybuilder’s success as the knees. I’d even say that blowing out a biceps or triceps muscle would be less serious in the long run than a rotator cuff or super spinaetus injury to the ...

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