July 13, 2021
Anyone who is telling you to lift heavy weights I would not listen to this person. Remember we are not at the gym to compete with people unless you are a professional athlete who gets paid millions of dollars to take risks of getting injured.
The idea here is to exercise and work out in order to stay healthy and look good without injuries.
You only have one body and you have to preserve it.
You have one spine, once you injure your spine it could be over for you and it’s very difficult to heal it. Light weight and lots of reps is the safe way to go. If you feel a lot of pressure or pain in your joints while lifting weights and cannot perform at least 12 reps on an exercise that weight is too heavy.
Also stay away from deadlifts, sitting leg presses. Do front and back squats and walking lunges with dumbbells instead with light weights and lots of reps (12 or more reps). Once you feel burning in your muscle stop and rest for 1 minute between each set.
For those who are trying to build muscle and strength, you will still be able to build muscle almost as big as if you are lifting heavy weights by working out with light weights performing lots of reps but without injuries to your joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and spine! For those of you who do not believe me about lifting heavy weights it is not a question “if it’s going to happen”? it is a question “when it’s going to happen?”
Look at all the power lifters, football players and bodybuilders. They are all messed up and injured at an early age and it’s not only due to the impact injury from an impact sport like playing football. It’s mostly from lifting heavy weights for many years which destroys your joints.
If you’d like to learn more about health and fitness, and start training, contact me on my cell or email. I am always here to help.
Also, our big muscle groups are like big pumps that pump blood into our vital organs and if you don’t work out at least twice per week your organs do not get proper blood supply and begin to die and developing different illnesses. Muscles also protect our skeleton and our vital organs so it’s very very important to have as much muscle as you can naturally no matter if you are man or a woman!
