If you had to pick one strength training exercise for injury prevention which exercise do you pick?
I say squat.
If you had to pick one strength training exercise for injury prevention which exercise do you pick?
I say squat.
What do you do, hotshot? wrote:
If you had to pick one strength training exercise for injury prevention which exercise do you pick?
I say squat.
Along similar lines, I would choose the front squat.
Deadlift because it hits the hamstrings more than the squat does.
Back squat
Box squat to be exact
Have a 505 lb max
And sub 9:00 3km
How do you know the exercise prevents the injury?
I remember the old Sesame Street bit:
Ernie: (standing around with a banana in his ear.)
Bert: Why do you have a banana in your ear?
Ernie: It's to keep away the alligators.
Bert: There are no alligators here.
Ernie: See... it's working.
kegels
12 ounce curls.
Reverse lunge, or perhaps a side lunge of some sort.
One leg work will go a lot further in preventing injuries than bilateral squats or deads.
The most effective is knee circles. You put your hands On your knees and rotate left 10 times, right 10 times or so. This strengthens the outside of your knee and also increases mobility in the hip and ankle. I have in tried doing this with a weighted vest but thankfully I am not limited to one strength exercise.
verminmeat wrote:
How do you know the exercise prevents the injury?
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Strength training strengthens the muscles, tendons, and skeletal system. Making that stronger makes one more injury resistant. Why do you think PT makes people do exercises that make them stronger?
Clean and jerk
The actual question is if I only have X amount of time or this equipment what do I do. People aren't limited by an arbitrary number of exercises but time and equipment.
verminmeat wrote:
How do you know the exercise prevents the injury?
I remember the old Sesame Street bit:
Ernie: (standing around with a banana in his ear.)
Bert: Why do you have a banana in your ear?
Ernie: It's to keep away the alligators.
Bert: There are no alligators here.
Ernie: See... it's working.
Exactly!
BROFESSOR wrote:
Clean and jerk
+1
concerned coach wrote:
The actual question is if I only have X amount of time or this equipment what do I do. People aren't limited by an arbitrary number of exercises but time and equipment.
Yeah, but this is a fun thought experiment. In essence, OP is asking what is the most productive exercise.
singleleg wrote:
Reverse lunge, or perhaps a side lunge of some sort.
One leg work will go a lot further in preventing injuries than bilateral squats or deads.
I'd choose the Turkish get up if we consider that one exercise, otherwise I'd go with a lunge variation.
fun thought experiment wrote:
concerned coach wrote:
The actual question is if I only have X amount of time or this equipment what do I do. People aren't limited by an arbitrary number of exercises but time and equipment.
Yeah, but this is a fun thought experiment. In essence, OP is asking what is the most productive exercise.
The better question though is what is the most productive 10min for injury prevention. Then you could get a useful answer.
Concerned coach wrote:
fun thought experiment wrote:
Yeah, but this is a fun thought experiment. In essence, OP is asking what is the most productive exercise.
The better question though is what is the most productive 10min for injury prevention. Then you could get a useful answer.
What is easy and slow jogging for 10 minutes before one picks up the pace.
For me what helps the most is seated calf presses. Works the soleus muscle and for me prevents calf soreness completely, which tends to break down for me otherwise and sets off a bad chain of effects from there.
Probably front squats. If we are talking specifically for running, I might consider lunges.