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Nowadays it seems like having an injury is in vogue, and I’m not talking about aserious injury such as torn rotator cuff, I mean those small twinges and painspeople get in their knees, shoulders and elbows.I’m sure you know what I mean and if you don’t, just carry out a littleobservation next time you’re at the gym. Watch somebody doing the chest press,after

they rack the weight watch them as the rotate their shoulder and stretch itout with a grimace on their faces. These little injuries are so incredibly common it’s ridiculous and they all stemfrom one of the following: trying to lift too much weight, poor form and underdeveloped stabilizing muscles from overusing machines. Bodyweight training helps to solve all these problems.You won’t be attempting to lift stupidly heavy weights that are purely to strokeyour ego. Instead you will be using strategically designed lifting time frames towork the muscles just as hard as if you had loaded the barbell with plate afterplate. As bodyweight exercises incorporate a huge number of your stabilizer muscles,you will be strengthening these every workout and preventing future injury, aswell as building muscle. The above points merge into the fact that with bodyweight routines you will notbe lifting under poor form. Most people give up good form in their attempts tocontinually stack plates onto the bar. With bodyweight training you won’t havethe opportunity to do this. Throw in the continued development of your stabilizermuscles and you will always be exercising under excellent form. Build Lean, Hard Muscle While Burning FatThere is a common misconception that in order to build muscle and lose fat youmust have a gym membership, INJURY CYCLE

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