IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT NORMAL TO BE INJURED WHILE LIFTING WEIGHTS!!!
One trainer using the AFITNESSADDICTION.COM model recently commented that he had begun training a local 14 year old high school baseball player. The boy in this case was playing for a local high school coach who recently decided that all baseball players should lift weights.
Curious to find out what had been going on he asked him to explain the routine. The player said that 5 times per week the coach had the baseball team working in the weight room doing a series of dead lifts and various squats into clean and jerk combination moves.
What is wrong with this approach?
- The boy is 14 years old and has no weight training experience. He is a beginner.
- The boy has done no adaptive work and is now doing heavy power lifting with no fundamental work in progressive resistance training.
- The boy will be injured lifting these sets day after day – possibly seriously – possibly permanently.
- This coach does not understand that some exercises are not exercises. These exercises are competitive lifting events and are not designed for everyday workout routines.
Conclusion:
The weights, rep limits and number of sets is not correct for the sport in question and the age and experience of the athlete.
This is an injury waiting to happen.
It is almost CERTAIN TO HAPPEN unless something is done.
Coaches routinely prescribe workouts that are not appropriate for their teams because youth sport coaches are NOT PERSONAL TRAINERS.
Did you know that the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York requires cadets to perform a series of strength and cardio minimum certifications? And, if the cadet can reach that minimum certification he is then free to choose or develop his or her own workout program?
Last summer, two third year cadets from West Point were touring the United States and dropped in to workout at a gym where a personal trainer using the AFITNESSADDICTION.COM model for his clients worked. He was shocked to see these cadets using a program which was an American off shoot of the Russian power lifting protocol from the late 1950 era. He interviewed the cadets who swore that the program was helping them develop their strength. They had done some research into power development and were working out on their own with a program they found. Neither future officer played a sport at the service academy. Both felt that the injuries they sustained WHILE LIFTING were NORMAL for ANYONE who lifted weights.
- One had a torn shoulder rotator.
- The other had a knee ligament injury that required a brace to workout. (And the injured knee buckled during the workout to such an extent that a group of local accomplished weight lifters gathered around the young men and strongly suggested that they discontinue the sets they were performing. Their form was so bad and the weight so excessive that two of the watchers asked the gym fitness manager if the gym could force the cadets to stop lifting and ask them to leave the club).
- Both claimed that their mandatory timed mile runs were increasing rather than decreasing.
4. Both claimed that their strength gains were worth the pain and injuries.
It is not normal to be injured while training.
This is a serious misapplication of a specific type program. These athletes were continuously lifting amounts of weight that approximated and exceeded their one rep maximum limits. There was no developmental period. It was strictly week after week and month after month of extremely heavy weight training. They had selected the wrong program and they were damaging themselves and possibly their careers in the military. They were not power lifters. They were third year college students who needed a maximum strength program that would not create the body of a power lifter.
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