Surgeons Hate Weightlifting

[Colossus]

I'm a PA in orthopedic surgery. The thing is, you need to put their advice into context.

There are thousands of people who have never lifted a weight in their life who fvck themselves up by sitting. Marathoners get stress fractures from cyclic loading. Mountain bikers get disc herniations. Pitchers get labral tears. Football players get torn ACLs. Weekend warriors and soccer moms alike have back problems, and every person on earth starts to show degenerative spine changes around the age of 30.

So really, every form of physical activity has inherent danger. Weightlifting isnt any more dangerous than most other sports. At extremes; i.e. true maximal effort lifting, there is a much finer margin of error. But again you have the same increase in injury risk with other high-impact sports. MMA for example. The benefits of weight training in my opinion outweigh the risks.

Also keep in mind most physicians aren't weightlifters. They dont understand the drive and needs of a strength athlete. Can weightlifters get bad backs? Absolutely. But guess who 90% of the patient population is in spine surgery.....the elderly, the fat, and people who have been in accidents.

 

[Taistelukalkkuna]

And I hate surgeons, so we are even.:box: Weight lifting is the only thing that fixed my bad back and frozen shoulders. No amount of pilates can do it anymore. Learn to lift correctly and problems are less likely to develop.

 

[Falcon]

One of the reasons why soccer players have a hard time taking bumps and knocks is because it is VERY hard to stay balanced while using your strong foot to dribble the ball at the same time. As a soccer player, I rarely get knocked over playing defense. But when I have the ball it's a completely different story. Dribbling technique itself takes away your strong foot so it is rarely planted correctly. Add that I play on the wing and am often running at full sprint while trying to dribble... an easily timed tackle or bump will definitely send me off course or to the ground. That's why you see guys like Ronaldo flying everywhere. When he dribbles, his technique, which makes him a brilliant player nevertheless, forces him to take so many touches on the ball. He usually has a straight posture too, making his center of gravity that much higher and easy to knock over. People in other sports don't have to lend their feet to do anything other than move, so it's free to stabilize them more. People don't really point this out when they see soccer guys fall but it seems like it should be common sense.