If you’re a weekend warrior, you need to know about injury prevention

The key to successful exercise is injury prevention.  Do you work way too many hours during the week?  Life often gets so busy that exercise gets put on the back burner.  You try to make up for a week’s worth of inactivity in one or two days on the weekend.  Thus, you become a weekend warrior.  Your intentions are good.  Getting exercise during the weekend is certainly a positive since exercising even 1-2 times per week can help reduce your risk of heart disease and heart attacks.

HOWEVER,

This sudden burst of activity after sitting in front of a computer all week can trigger musculoskeletal injury or strain. This will keep you from exercising at all!  You become more susceptible to injury because the level of physical activity required to participate in recreation is not maintained during the week. [Read more…] about Injury Prevention for Weekend Warriors