Gyms seem to be relatively safe places, we frequent them often and walk out the front doors without any complaints other then the normal soreness brought on by a hard workout.
But unfortunately for some of us we actually do not make it out of the gym uninjured, usually the injuries are nothing serious but can still really kill our workouts. Now the most common gym injuries are not serious but they still keep us from what we love. Here is a brief description of the most common injuries and how you can prevent them.


Muscle Strain
The first injury is perhaps the most common injury seen in the gym, it is a muscle strain, also know as a muscle tear. The thing to remember hear is that there are different degrees of strains, you can have level one, two or three, three being a complete tear of the muscle and the most serious. Level one strain is a very minor over stretching of the muscle leading to slight swelling in the area and very minor discomfort. Level two is more severe and usually is a severe strain with a tear but not a complete tear of the muscle itself. There will be severe swelling and soreness and pain will be elicited during contraction of the affected muscle. Now all of the levels can keep you out of the gym and all will take time to recover from, obviously the higher the level the longer the recovery time. The standard treatment is rest and physical therapy such as massage or physiotherapy.
The best way to try and prevent a muscle strain is to do a warm up set for each exercise to help warm up the muscle fibers and the surrounding connecting tissues. Also technique plays a key role when lifting weights, if you a putting you muscles under high levels of stress in weird angles this will increase the chances of a strain. Now the most common way muscle strain occur is when people try to lift more weight then they are comfortable with and swing the weights around, this can obviously be corrected by lifting only what you are capable of lifting.


The Other most common gym injury is a group of conditions, these conditions are inflammatory conditions brought on by repetitive strain such as a workout routing. These conditions are hard to avoid as they come about for most of us as a direct result of going to the gym regularly and putting our bodies under stress repeatedly.

Tendinitis
The first in this group is tendinitis which is a very basic condition it is a inflammation of a tendon, the most common areas

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