2. The hidden risks of home workouts
When COVID-19 locked us out of our gyms, we not only had to scramble to come up with home workouts for our clients, we also had to create programs for ourselves, based mostly or entirely on body-weight exercises.
"Many people are finding it a welcome break from heavy lifting, and say their joints feel a lot better," wrote Tom Venuto on Facebook.
But he also offered a warning:
Not long after he started pushing himself to set new records on body-weight exercises, an old injury returned: medial epicondylitis, better known as golfer’s
elbow. "And damn it, I don’t even golf!" he said.
He stopped doing the chin-ups that caused the injury, but the damage was done.
The takeaway: No matter the exercise, when you "do too much too soon, or train for ego," you’re setting yourself up for an overuse injury.
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