496: How to Avoid Injury In The Gym (8 Quick Tips)
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
4.9 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In today's episode we give you eight quick tips to help you avoid injury in the gym.
Listed points:
1-Start with a proper warm-up
-Could be few mins on the treadmill, some mobility movements
-This helps increase blood flow, loosen up muscles, and prepare your body for the upcoming workout.
-Work up in weight. Squatting 315? Do the bar, 135, 225 etc and work up
2- Use proper form and technique
-Watch our form videos
-Ask a professional
-Our coaching includes all form video feedback
3- Progress gradually & leave your ego at the door
-Avoid the temptation to lift heavy weights or perform advanced exercises before you're ready. Progress gradually by increasing weights, repetitions, or difficulty levels as your strength and skill improve.
4- Listen to your body
-Pay attention to any pain, discomfort, or unusual sensations during your workouts. If something feels off or causes sharp pain, stop the exercise and assess the situation. Pushing through pain can lead to more severe injuries.
5- Use spotters and safety measures
-When lifting heavy weights, especially during exercises like bench presses or squats, have a spotter nearby. They can assist you if you struggle with the weight or need help.
-learning how to fail a squat, setting up safety for squats, etc
6- Maintain proper breathing
-Breathing correctly during exercises is essential. Exhale during the exertion phase of the movement and inhale during the return or rest phase. Proper breathing supports stability, prevents dizziness, and helps maintain proper form.
7- Don't neglect rest and recovery
-You don't need to be in the gym 2 hours a day, 7 days a week to see progress.
-Have a consistent recovery routine that works for you
-Focus on prehab before injuries take place.
8- Use appropriate equipment and gear
- Wear proper workout attire and footwear that provide support and stability.
- Belts and other tools can be used to help support in the gym
- Sorry to say but crocs aren’t supporting you as much as you may think
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all, |
| 0:05.1 | happy podcast. I'm your coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the |
| 0:12.0 | house. And today we're giving you our top eight tips to avoid injury in the gym because this is a big |
| 0:18.1 | one. I know a lot of people are scared to do certain movements to work |
| 0:21.4 | out because they don't want to get hurt and they have that fear in their mind. We're going to show you |
| 0:25.1 | how to overcome that because if you're not doing movements, you're not getting strong, you're not |
| 0:29.4 | building a base, you're not attacking your compounds. You're actually going to be more susceptible to |
| 0:33.9 | injury as you age. Science study after study has indicated that being strong, |
| 0:38.9 | being healthy, and having ability |
| 0:40.7 | actually limits your chance of hurting yourself, |
| 0:42.8 | especially as you age. |
| 0:44.1 | Frailty is a big issue and sometimes you could be |
| 0:46.4 | something as stepping off a curb if you're really old |
| 0:48.9 | and unfortunately if you're really frail, |
| 0:50.8 | that can be too much for your body |
| 0:52.1 | and you get a lot of stability, strength, |
| 0:53.8 | your bone density improves from lifting. So we going to show you how to navigate that safely |
| 0:57.9 | and with confidence and i'm going to kick that off with number one which is to start with proper form |
| 1:03.6 | and a warm up so you know we're big on proper form if you don't know we have about 60 to 80 videos on |
| 1:09.5 | youtube form videos specifically on how to do things the right way. We like to also approach it for how to do things the wrong way because sometimes if you're like me, it's fun to learn backwards. When you learn exactly what you shouldn't do, it helps you shed a light on exactly what you should be doing, where your focus should be and where your energy should be applied. So if you haven't checked those out, I definitely recommend it. If there's any movement you see that you're just like, oh, I don't know if I'm doing this right. Go check it out. Search our YouTube, search Colossus Fitness, Laplow, pull down. You can see you get some bonus six and trips. My second biggest tip is film yourself. Grab a little tripod. You can buy them cheap on Amazon now. Film yourself doing some of your top movements in the gym. Dr. Peter Atia, a longevity |
| 1:49.0 | specialist and fitness and health, actually says that he films himself for his 10 top sets |
| 1:54.2 | of every workout and we'll review it in between sets. So he can bridge that disconnect between what |
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