What do you think is a good exercise routine for maximizing health and not getting injured? Ideally, there’s some sort of weight-lifting in which you can’t easily injure yourself with poor form that won’t result in muscular imbalance and that still allow for incremental improvement.
As for cardio, maybe rowing and ellipticaling are ideal?
You should check out Scott Sonnon’s Intu-Flow. I’m going to admit I only have moderate amounts of evidence, but here they are.
Sonnon has a congenital connective tissue problem and athletic ambition. Intu-Flow is a set of joint mobility exercises which he does to make injury less likely.
I’ve been doing IntuFlow, but not weight lifting. It makes me feel better in the short run (for a day or so after I do it, and I was amazed at how much better I felt when I did Intu-Flow after skipping it for some weeks), and seems to have a good effect on some knee damage. (More days when going down stairs isn’t a problem. Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping records.)
Intu-Flow definitely increases body awareness, and I believe it’s easier to not hurt yourself if you can tell what you’re doing.
Some poking around doesn’t turn up any bad reviews, though some people think it’s over-hyped.
Elliptical is very hard to do sprints on. Rowing is ideal IMO.
As for not getting injured, you shouldn’t let the discussion of back injuries here make you think it is a common problem. Weightlifting has a lower injury rate than badminton or swimming. The most common injury in weightlifting is bench press injuries from not having a spotter or safety bars. The reason most other things rarely cause injury is that you almost always will simply strain a muscle and drop the weight before you injure anything permanent. Benchpress is an exception because you can drop it on yourself.
Strength wise you can get plenty strong on a regime of dips, chins, one legged squats, handstand pushups etc. Using a backpack or something to progressively load them.
What do you think is a good exercise routine for maximizing health and not getting injured? Ideally, there’s some sort of weight-lifting in which you can’t easily injure yourself with poor form that won’t result in muscular imbalance and that still allow for incremental improvement.
As for cardio, maybe rowing and ellipticaling are ideal?
You should check out Scott Sonnon’s Intu-Flow. I’m going to admit I only have moderate amounts of evidence, but here they are.
Sonnon has a congenital connective tissue problem and athletic ambition. Intu-Flow is a set of joint mobility exercises which he does to make injury less likely.
I’ve been doing IntuFlow, but not weight lifting. It makes me feel better in the short run (for a day or so after I do it, and I was amazed at how much better I felt when I did Intu-Flow after skipping it for some weeks), and seems to have a good effect on some knee damage. (More days when going down stairs isn’t a problem. Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping records.)
Intu-Flow definitely increases body awareness, and I believe it’s easier to not hurt yourself if you can tell what you’re doing.
Some poking around doesn’t turn up any bad reviews, though some people think it’s over-hyped.
Elliptical is very hard to do sprints on. Rowing is ideal IMO.
As for not getting injured, you shouldn’t let the discussion of back injuries here make you think it is a common problem. Weightlifting has a lower injury rate than badminton or swimming. The most common injury in weightlifting is bench press injuries from not having a spotter or safety bars. The reason most other things rarely cause injury is that you almost always will simply strain a muscle and drop the weight before you injure anything permanent. Benchpress is an exception because you can drop it on yourself.
Still, I’ve had my own injury issues. Do you think body weight exercises are less likely to led to injury?
Strength wise you can get plenty strong on a regime of dips, chins, one legged squats, handstand pushups etc. Using a backpack or something to progressively load them.