Israetel: Is Strength Training Dangerous?

[heinz83]

I hear that sitting on one's ass and reading Lord of the Rings for the fourth time has zero injury risk, so that's what I am doing tonight.

[Jason Donaldson]

I hear that sitting on one's ass and reading Lord of the Rings for the fourth time has zero injury risk, so that's what I am doing tonight.

As with many things, the dose makes the poison.

(For the sitting on one's ass part, that is...not the Tolkien part... Reading Tolkien is almost always a great idea.)

[Robert Santana]

Stretch mediated hypertrophy does seem to be the new buzz.

Yes, a fancy word to say you have to take the muscle through full range of motion for it to grow. If you state the obvious in a complicated way you are now a scientist. Did you know the weighted squat elicits more load-mediated hypertrophy than the air squat?