Pardon me, but can you hand me my lumbar back. Bodybuilding
Injuries
After being in the gym business for the past 17 years I have
seen my share of lifters getting hurt. A majority of the
injuries are shoulder related from bench pressing. Others
include lower back spasms from deadlifting and squatting, torn
biceps from a preacher curl and sore joints. I had a few
injuries myself. I had a major one some years ago in my upper
back/shoulder area. I was doing behind the neck shoulder presses
and all of a sudden I heard a pop and then radiating pain. The
next week I barely could bench an empty bar. It took months to
recover from that uninviting setback. The next thing I asked
myself is what caused this horrific injury and how to not let it
happen again.
I was training six days a week at the time and came to the
conclusion I was drastically overtraining. I wasn