Walk around NYC and you’ll see many people jogging around the many amazing parks Manhattan has to offer. In our society, jogging is considered healthy but Weightlifting still has this ‘Dark’ component, such as:
- “Weightlifting is bad for your knees”
- “Lifting weights will tear down your joints”
- “Squats will compress your back and wear your cartilage down”
- “Overhead press, will tear your shoulder out of it’s socket”
And blah, blah, blah.
There are so many misconceptions it’s ridiculous. In a study done on multi-sport comparative injury rates “Weight Training” (basically defined as a recreational exerciser that utilizes weights) was at the the bottom of the chart in comparison to:
- Rugby
- Basketball
- Football
- Squash
And guess what was at the very bottom? Olympic Style Weightlifting mofos! That’s right! But the researcher are quick to point out that there should be a well trained performance coach or personal trainer to help supervisor for safe weight training.
Click HERE for the research article:
In this research study on average recreational runners who every now and then participated in races had a rate of injury that varied between 37-56%. The incidence report varied from 2.5-12.1 injuries per 1000 hours. While in the Weightlifting research for “Recreational” Weight training the incidence report was .0035% per 100 hours and in Olympic Style Weightlifting .0017 per 100 hours.
While the participation hours is a variable, in reality we know many people injured due to running rather than lifting under a well trained sports performance coach or personal trainer, especially in NYC.
I don’t want to go too much more into the variables and anecdotally evidence. The main objective is to point out that running or jogging does have a high incidence of injury while Weightlifting is labeled as the black sheep. It’s unfortunate too because Weightlifting is more than likely the missing piece of the puzzle for many peoples fat loss goals.
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