Do you have a strategy to avoid injuries?

• Do you get a sore back, neck, shoulder, and legs frequently?

• How long does your body take to recover from injuries?

• Do you recover back stronger from injuries?

Injuries in any form or shape are unpleasant. In fact, we wish to never come across injuries altogether but is it possible that a lot of the injuries we create for ourselves?

If you drive a car without maintaining it or servicing it on regular basis, how long do you think it would take before it starts giving you grief?

Just like the car, muscles are the engine of our body. If we don’t look after the engine of our body, do you think you will see the effects of that soon?

The challenge with the human body is that once it's busted or broken, a lot of times it can be hard to get back to the full range of motion.

Injuries can happen to joints, bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, cartilage and so on. When one bone meets another bone, joint is formed and muscles pull on the bones to create movements across the joints.

Sometimes people focus only on the outside appearance without caring about the inside of the body. If you put your body under high risk when you are exercising and aiming to get fitter and stronger and then you do your daily activities, on top of that if your occupation involves repetitive movements, you put your body under high risk of getting Bony, Soft tissues and Neural injuries.

So what can you consider to avoid getting injuries?

Is the movement / exercise safe?

Could it be an absolutely brilliant idea to make sure that the exercise is not going to hurt your joints today, tomorrow or in future?

The best way to work out is to check where the pressure is going when gravity pushes down. There could be compression/traction force through the joints or sheering force across the joints. If there are sheering forces across the joints then likely it's not going to be good in the long term.

So for any push, pull or leg exercises would it be the best idea to make sure that there are no sheering forces going across the joints?

Is the movement / exercise functional?

This means that exercise relates to our daily life activities. Functional exercises are safer, and replicate the things that we do on a normal basis, would it be a good idea to stick to those?

Is it going to cause overuse injuries?

Even though you do safe and functional movements, if you do them over and over, you are going to get overuse injuries. This is common when we lift light weights and do multiple repetitions. Do you think that you can do a lot of reps with a really heavy weight?

Accidents do happen and we can’t avoid them but wouldn’t it be brilliant to stick to safe and functional exercises in the Phosphate system and get strong muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments so that we don’t injure ourselves?

And even if you get injured, wouldn’t you want a body that can rehabilitate and come out stronger so that you can enjoy the benefits of being healthy, fit and strong for long ???