EVERYTHING I’ve ever done to prevent injuries has failed, and I’ve done far more than most.
If you are going to push to the edge of what you are made to do, you will get hurt and should expect it. Even if you get through 15-20 years of training hard with no muscle pulls the wear and tear will still catch up.
This is assuming you are a competitive strength athlete. The injury rates support this as well as all I have seen my entire life around these sports.
If you are not training athletes that are for these competetive reasons your injury rater should be nill or very close to it. If you are training serious but not competetive or working with clients who are serious but not competetive and have a high injury rate you should relieved of training people. But, if you are a strength athlete...
It’s not IF but WHEN it will happen.
This doesn’t mean you should train recklessly and disregard recovery. You should always be learning how to best train yourself (or your athletes). It also doesn’t mean you should learn or practice everything that will help aid recovery and restoration.
You should work just as hard acquiring that knowledge as you do in the gym. This means the harder you train, the more you learn.
This is saying anyone or any modality that tells you that it will prevent injuries or all injuries is 100% full of shit.
But, if you have been training hard and learning, I didn’t tell you anything you didn’t already know.
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