How to Prevent Injuries in Playground Fitness

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O.K. so injury prevention. I need to bring it up. Why? Well I'll tell you why. I have had so many injuries in my years of teaching fitness and working out. I like to work out hard. That's part of it. The other thing is I wasn't always working out smart and balanced. A couple of tips for you on injury prevention. Always balance out your muscles. If I'm going to work my quadriceps muscle, I need to get to my hamstring right. I want to even them out. And just backing it up a little bit, if we were going to work our back muscles and our chest even it out. All the muscles needs to be in balance. Let's just focus on lower body. That's what we are doing today. The knee; this is the area most people have a tendency to have the most problems. Lots of issues. Why does this happen? Several reasons. You have too much weight on you. You?re doing exercises and there's a lot of pressure on your knees. Number 2 you haven't worked the tear drop muscle, which is right above and around the knee. And I will show you how to do that. A lot of our exercises do not focus on the tear drop. This area if it?s increased in size as of the muscle, it will protect the knee. What else do we have. We have the back injuries, and we already talked about abdominal training right. Strong stomach is going to protect your back. But anything that can reinjure old back injury or strain, don't do it. Any doubts, don't do it. Anything I'm going to show you today that you think might aggravate, then stay away from it. Also hamstring, if its too tight, or hip flexors if their too tight, can cause problems. It comes down to stretching, at which we'll talk about little bit later. Stay in balance, be smart about what you do, and focus on the tear drop exercises that really protect your knee. Good warm up and a good cool down and basically you should be o.k. And I'll give you more specifics as we get into the other segments.

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