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Olympic athletes are professionals. Anecdotally, my “yoked” coworkers frequently hurt themselves. Out of twenty people on my team, two hurt their backs so badly
by Rumudiez 8y ago
Olympic athletes are professionals. Anecdotally, my “yoked” coworkers frequently hurt themselves. Out of twenty people on my team, two hurt their backs so badly in the last month that they can’t sit or stand for more than an hour or two, among other minor injuries.
Meanwhile, I commute by motorcycle exclusively five days a week and have never missed work due to or come to work with an injury. The safeness of any given activity is relative to each individual and their training.
- Alex3917 8y ago> Olympic athletes are professionals. They're actually required to be amateurs, but otherwise yeah. :-)
- MortenK 8y agoOlympic weightlifting is just the name for a discipline which incorporates a specific set of barbell excercises. It's injury rate is indeed extremely low (From Hamill, B. “Relative Safeety of Weightlifting and Weight Training” Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 8(1):53-57, 1994 https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK https://imgur.com/a/0jI0CzK). Your typical gym-goer does all kinds of other stuff though, like crossfit and similar nonsense, which is highly injury prone. The "classic" (i.e. Olympic) exercises, is a very safe sport.