Fong asks such an important question. I have taken it from the comments to post it here.
“I hope you can expand your theories on fitness to include injury prevention when training fast twitch muscles. While I note the usual advice of “warm up-stretch” and “do not play in pain”, I hope you can look into why and how this type of injury occurs for everyone no matter how careful.
Just as you have personally experienced, almost everyone who is active in sports and exercise will eventually experience a painful injury that may set them back from exercise from weeks to years.
Unlike repetitive-type injuries that come from slower workouts which have a more graduated and repeated feedback signal - high intensity workouts
injury happen quickly and often without any signs to easy off during workout. These include strains, tears, pulls even heavy cramping.
This “sudden injury” nature of high intensity workouts may even be THE limiting factor and darwinian filter - allowing someone like yourself to fully express your genes while “ordinary” folks exercising in the general same way would have long ago suffered enough injury to modify their workout to a lower intensity.
My own anecdotal experience is that high school athletes performing at state level are often not fit for combat vocations in my country’s conscript army because of a muscle-skeleton injury received during sports. The funny thing is that they continue to compete at the state level despite their injury.”
My incomplete thoughts on this…
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Fong asks such an important question. I have taken it from the comments to post it here.
“I hope you can expand your theories on fitness to include injury prevention when training fast twitch muscles. While I note the usual advice of “warm up-stretch” and “do not play in pain”, I hope you can look into why and how this type of injury occurs for everyone no matter how careful.
Just as you have personally experienced, almost everyone who is active in sports and exercise will eventually experience a painful injury that may set them back from exercise from weeks to years.
Unlike repetitive-type injuries that come from slower workouts which have a more graduated and repeated feedback signal - high intensity workouts
injury happen quickly and often without any signs to easy off during workout. These include strains, tears, pulls even heavy cramping.
This “sudden injury” nature of high intensity workouts may even be THE limiting factor and darwinian filter - allowing someone like yourself to fully express your genes while “ordinary” folks exercising in the general same way would have long ago suffered enough injury to modify their workout to a lower intensity.
My own anecdotal experience is that high school athletes performing at state level are often not fit for combat vocations in my country’s conscript army because of a muscle-skeleton injury received during sports. The funny thing is that they continue to compete at the state level despite their injury.”
My incomplete thoughts on this…
(more…)