Comment by olddustytrail
3 days ago
Lack of exercise is vastly more likely to cause injury to your body than exercise is.
Unless you're an elite athlete pushing your body beyond what is reasonable, but that really doesn't apply to most people.
3 days ago
Lack of exercise is vastly more likely to cause injury to your body than exercise is.
Unless you're an elite athlete pushing your body beyond what is reasonable, but that really doesn't apply to most people.
Exercising wrong is more likely to cause you injury than either of those things. Do a bit, and do it carefully
Such platitudes are legitimately useless as nearly everyone who injured themselves while exercising immediately sees the error in their ways, but that doesn't help them undo the permanent damage they've done
Pretty much the worst thing you can do exercising is an ACL tear or an Achilles tendon rupture. Both of these are absolutely awful injuries to pick up (whoever designed the human body really phoned it in at the knee joint IMO). Both are usually solved with surgery, and will massively impact your life for 9-12 months. But the real fix to those injuries is to get back exercising again. If Tom Brady can play NFL football after an ACL tear and surgery, you can probably go back running with the right advice.
The only way to avoid injury is to not use your body at all but your muscles will atrophy and you’ll end up injured _anyway_ that way.
Most people who injure themselves exercising go to PT and then go straight back to exercising because they know how important it is and how good it feels.
You're physically lazy and unmotivated, we get it. Hiding behind "but maybe I can get hurt" is not going to make you better or improve your health. Go do something hard and stop being afraid of living life.