How to avoid common body building and weight lifting gym injuries?

Bodybuilding with lifting weights if done incorrectly is a sure cause for common bodybuilding and weightlifting injuries. Sometimes even causing very painful and permanent injuries that will derail your entire bodybuilding program and keep you out of the gym forever.


We will address the common injury mistakes bodybuilders make in their quest to build a fit and muscular body and how to avoid injuries caused by wrong weightlifting form and techniques.


Many people who workout in gyms often complain backaches and other joint problems. They usually blame it on their desk bound jobs sitting in front of the computer at long stretches of time.

They may be correct. Then why is it that more bodybuilders have backaches when compared to their non gym workout colleagues who spend the same amount of time in front of the computer. Aren't people who lift weights are supposed to have stronger back muscles to support their musculature and should be less prone to backaches? They should, don't they? Apparently it is not the case. Many bodybuilders and weightlifters suffer from common weightlifting injuries that they don't even know it.

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Many people actually think that if they do not suffer any pain when they are lifting weights, they are not injured. I want to debunk this common weightlifting and bodybuilding myth right now. You see, many weightlifting injuries are often sustained over a period of time.


It is because of wrong weightlifting technique being repeated over and over through many training sessions and over time that cause wear and tear type of injuries to joints, tendons, cartilages and muscles. Many injuries do not just occur immediately or overnight like the weights dropping on your feet or terribly painful muscle tear when you lift weights.


Therefore executing your weightlifting movements in the correct form and technique not only help your muscles to grow bigger and faster, it is also absolutely crucial in preventing common bodybuilding injuries.


Common causes of gym injuries can also be attributed to lifting weights that are too heavy or that the bodybuilder who may be unwell, and yet headed for the gym when his condition is not at his optimum for handling the weights he usually lift as he is in a physically weakened state and therefore very susceptible to weightlifting injuries.


So when the weights are too heavy or you are too weak to lift the weight you usually are able to, you are forced to cheat by swinging the weights up using momentum and lowering the weights quickly by capitalising on natural gravitational pull..


These movements not only waste your time in the gym as they certainly do not help you to build muscles. They will also cause you to sustain bodybuilding injuries.


A common exercise usually done in wrong form and is a recipe for injuries is the common barbell curl.

• Barbell Biceps Curl – This exercise is perhaps the most commonly executed in wrong form and causing injuries that people don’t even know why they are injured. In every gym, you will see people swinging their barbells with their spine rocking to and fro during the reps.

The rocking movements place tremendous stress on the shoulder joint which is the most unstable joint in the human body and the lower back. Over time, the shoulder joints and lower back will pay a heavy price for the wrong form and technique used during the lift.


Other common bodybuilding exercises that are often wrongly executed are the lat pull down, bench press, leg extension, military press etc.


So the next time when you have a backache or joint pain, don’t blame it on other causes if you are a bodybuilder and that you lift weights often. Just reflect on the weightlifting exercises you are doing and examine them as to whether they are the cause of your injuries.


Better yet, hire a personal trainer or a read bodybuilding book with picture illustration and description to learn how to lift weights in the correct form and technique so as to avoid common and serious bodybuilding/weightlifting injuries.






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