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Thursday, March 4, 2010

FITNESS FACTS - ALLOW ENOUGH TIME TO HEAL INJURIES

Injuries are common, whether you do exercise or not. How do you prevent and treat injury?

While anyone is engaged in, or participate in a fitness activity, chances are that injuries, mild or severe is bound to happen on a variety of reasons.

a)Chances are, in a split moment they can twist their foot.
b)Slip on the floor and hurt their back.
c)May have pushed  too hard on the exercise machine.
d)Carelessness and over confidence.

So the activity of exerciseing exposes one to injuries.Given below are tips to prevent injuries while exercising:

1)First watch and learn from experienced exerciser.
2)Be calm and patient learner and exerciser.
3)Work within one's capacity of endurance.
4)Learn and follow the correct way of doing the exercise.
5)Maintain the correct posture even when you attempt increasing the weights.
6)Strengthen the core and base muscles.
7)Warm up before exercising and always take rest and  stretch your body completely,after exercise. This will reduce DELAYED ONSET MUSCLE SORENESS or DOMS.

AFTER INJURY

1)Having a positive attitude helps a lot in the healing process.
2)Being fit before injury is an advantage during the healing process.
3)Rest well and do not gain weight in the interim period.
4)Stretch and strengthen the muscle well.

AFTER RESUMING EXERCISE

1)Do not initially attempt to exercise the injured part of the body.
2)Stretch and strengthen the muscle involved.
3)Go slow and get into the routine gradually.
4)After a period of consistency one should think of increasing the weights.


Raghu Natrajan

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