Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Fit Guy. You know, you can certainly learn a fair share about exercise injuries of the Get Fit Guy website. For example, at Getfitguy.com, you'll find injury articles and

episodes that include six tips to avoid common fitness injuries. How to exercise with an ankle and

foot injury, a knee injury, a low back injury, a shoulder injury, how to use water for exercise

when you're injured, how to recover after

a workout or an injury. Well, your important goal should be to avoid getting injured in the first

place, you should also be prepared to get rid of your injuries faster, since I've personally

never met an exercise enthusiast who didn't have some kind of injury at some

point in their life. So I am going to give you seven tips for getting rid of injuries fast.

Tip number one, ice. The initial response to an injury is inflammation and swelling, which can

increase pain and pressure on nerves and decrease range

of motion. That's why your immediate plan of attack should be to get ice on an injured joint for

15 to 20 minutes, and then repeat this every few hours until the initial swelling and redness

has subsided. Number two is rest. Don't take this as a ticket to lie around

on the couch waiting for your injury to heal. Instead, you rest to the injured area only, and you can do

that by simply making sure that you're not moving it much or by wearing a brace or some type of wrap

or sleeve, but for the rest of your body, you get as

fit as possible. For example, I recently injured my right knee, but within 24 hours of that injury,

I was back at the gym doing leg presses, squats, leg extensions, leg curls, calf raises, and jumps

with my left leg only while I was wearing a brace

to immobilize my right knee. So rest, but make sure that you keep the rest of your body active.

Number three is topical anti-inflammatories. Topical anti-inflammatories can help to improve blood circulation in and out of an

injured area and help to decrease inflammation in pain. I recommend them because they're much easier on

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