How to Avoid Injury When Strength Training

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Some common mistakes you see people make when they're doing strength training oh a lot one of the biggest ones probably for like general population is ego lifting especially for men. Men are more prone to this than women, sacrifice technique and raise of motion for more weight basically faking their own progression. avoiding injury is mostly about using good technique finding exercises that suit your body and moderating your volume appropriately i think a very big part of it is listening to pain signals.

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