10 Ways To Get Injured During Gym Workouts

There’s a lot more than 10 ways to get injured during gym workouts, but here are just a couple of them.  The article I’m referencing has more information, I’m simply just going to list them and add my own thoughts as I see fit.

1. Training With too Much Weight

This should be all common sense, but you’d be surprised at how many people don’t have that, which makes me think people are either ignorant or stupid, or both.  My general rule of thumb is if you can only do three reps of whichever workout you’re doing, DON’T try to push even more weight.  By the way, three reps is the LEAST, usually if you can’t get more than six, don’t be an idiot and attempt more.

2. Doing An Exercise With Bad Form

You usually know you have bad form when you feel something snap, but there are many signs beforehand if you actually listen to your body.  Pain and discomfort are two big ones…this is, again, a no brainer.

3. Using Crappy Equipment

Don’t use anything rusted, reeling, or sparking.  Also, stay away from that fitness machine in the corner that looks like it could double as laboratory equipment to splice the human genome.  They’re usually bad news…the simpler it looks, the better.

4. Not Stretching

I don’t stretch a whole lot before a workout, but I do like to get my muscles a little loose.  If you’re not running the Boston Marathon, a half hour of stretching is a little much, but a little bit of stretching goes a long way.

5. Not Eating Correctly/Enough

It doesn’t matter how much you can lift, how far you can run, what kind of yoga positions you can pull off, that’s only about 30% of it.  Nutrition is the other 70%.  If you’re not eating correctly, you will not see results as fast.  If you’re not eating enough, forget the Boston Marathon in #4, you’re going nowhere.  Here’s a short guideline for the right nutrition for strength training.

6. Not Taking Resting Days

You ever notice the muscle soreness the day after a workout?  That’s because when you exercise, you’re tearing all your little muscle fibers!  If you don’t give yourself a couple days for them to heal, you’ll just keep tearing and tearing without any gains, and eventually, a major injury….

7. Mimicking Others In The Gym

This reason is just plain stupid.  You see the ripped Neanderthal on the other side of the gym benching 700 lbs.?  Yeah, you’re not him…Stick with what you can handle.  Remember, even said Neanderthal started out as a skinny punk like you at one time.  You’ll get there, be patient.

8. Neglecting Muscle Groups

Many people have trouble with this…Here’s a little practicality to get you motivated though:  How are you going to go up in weight on your leg exercises if your lower back is neglected?  How are you going to move up on bench if you’re not doing any shoulder exercises?  That’s right, you won’t!

9. Spacing Out

I’m not saying much on this, if you’re spacing out you need to focus, if you can’t focus, you need to do something else that keeps your focus, or buy some Ritalin from the guy down on the corner

That was bad advice….go see a doctor before you buy Ritalin from the guy down on the corner.

10. Not Caring for Old Injuries

If you pull a muscle, don’t work through the pain, it’ll only get worse.  Make sure you stop what you’re doing and get it checked out.  Buy some muscle cramp relief lotion for a quick fix to dull the pain, and follow your doctor’s advice: However long he says to rest the muscle, just do it.  The weights will still be there when you get back to your workouts.

And go get pain meds for a cheaper price from the guy on the corner.

There you have it, I can probably narrow this down to one rule: #1. Don’t be an idiot, but people don’t really adhere to that advice too well.  Remember though, before you go and pull, strain, sprain, tear, or pop something, look at what you did wrong before going all sue-happy and getting your PA personal injury lawyer on the owner of the club.

Obese Children May Need New Livers By Age 30

In another unsurprising bit of news about the obesity epidemic in America, now overweight children will need to have their livers replaced because of being overweight.  If their livers aren’t damaged now, it will be by their 30s….

CNN news article here

“The American Liver Foundation and other experts estimate 2 to 5 percent of American children over age 5, nearly all of them obese or overweight, have the condition, called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.”

Apparently, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease causes cirrosis of the liver, which is then followed by liver failure and liver cancer.  Now, I’m no doctor, but I do know that they all lead to DEATH!!

Parents, please tell your kids to get off the couch and go outside for a bike ride or a pick-up football game because nonalcoholic fatty liver disease CAN be cured through weightloss.  Stop it with the denial.  Look at your kid, admit to yourself they’re fat, and tell them to put down the cheese doodles and do something athletic before they’re subjected to a very short lifetime of pain, misery, and an endless search for organ donors.

Flip Flops Get A Much Needed Design Update

I found this article about the PecheBlu flip flops on Tribble Agency.  Usually, I wouldn’t think about the design of my footware, especially flip flops, but this is pretty compelling.  Now I know why my feet constantly hurt and my shins feel like they were kicked 10 times each with steel – toed boots.

PecheBlu flip flops, unlike other “slab” flip flops, offer arch support for your feet.  I didn’t really think about it until now, but I can see how if your feet aren’t supported, it tends to cause a lot of strain on your ankles, shins, and knees. Not to mention that regular “slab” flip flops make you feel like you’re walking funny…

I did some more research into them and it looks like a pretty cool company….and they actually care about how they make their flip flops!  Granted, some of them are a little expensive ($400 for a pair of crocodile flip flops?), but they’re definitely worth checking out.  Walk the beach in comfort!

Japan To Measure Waistlines!

Hey guys and gals,

I found this very amazing.  In order to keep the spread of diabetes and stroke to a minimum, Japan is going to measure the waistlines of 56 million people between the ages of 40 and 74, that’s 44% of the entire population!  The Japanese government is hoping it will also curb the increasingly rising cost of healthcare for the nation.

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Now I’m amazed at this!  Why can’t America do this?  Japan has beaten us in manufacturing, technology, and education…now they’re going to beat us in healthcare.  This country’s healthcare is also astronomical, but people don’t care, they care more about their quarter pounders with cheese, deep-fried hotdogs, and Red Bullshits with 8 spoonfuls of sugar.  America: WAKE UP!! Put the Big Mac down and pick up a carrot and get on a treadmill!  All the politicians and doctors are screaming that this country has a weight problem, only the politicians and doctors are also morbidly obese AND nobody does anything about it except complain….the amount of hypocrisy in this nation is mesmerizing!  America’s gone soft – figuratively and literally.

“To reach its goals of shrinking the overweight population by 10 percent over the next four years and 25 percent over the next seven years, the government will impose financial penalties on companies and local governments that fail to meet specific targets.”  (NY Times) This is perfect!  That’s why America isn’t doing it….Do you want to know another reason why America won’t do it?  Because the nation would go bankrupt.  Japan realized that there’s too many McDonald’s franchises in their country and they decided to do something about it.  Why can’t we do the same?

Add These Products To Your Cardio Workout!

Hey people, by now you should be well on your way to getting fit and trim for that vacation of yours.  I, myself, am going to the beach for 9 days and I’ve been working my increasingly thinner ass off lately getting ready for it!  9 days to marinate in the sun, god….I need a vacation…..

Anyway, last year I got bored with my cardio routine a bit…just running was really getting boring.  So this year I decided to do some research, maybe move my workout routine in-house a bit too, so I did a bit of research.  LifeSpan Fitness always has some cool stuff!  After all, I got my treadmill there last year and my girlfriend and I are very happy with it.

So LifeSpan has this new thing called a vibration plate…This actually interested me because the only thing I thought you could do with vibration is physical therapy and naughty things (hehehe).  And it is relatively new:  it was originally designed for Russian cosmonauts to keep their muscles from atrophying in space.  What it can do for you here on Earth, where we have gravity, is improve your muscle strength, your balance and flexability….so you know I’m just being a big pain in the a$$ bugging my gym owner to invest in one of these things to try it out!  They also carry an elliptical trainer and a rowing machine that my girlfriend wants, so I guess I gotta buy them before I buy my vibration plate…hence bugging the gym owner:)   LifeSpan is just a cool company with people’s fitness #1 in their minds, and their products are quality so I go to them first!

Oh yeah, and I know I promoted this product before, but get this if you have a muscle cramp or muscle spasm…This stuff actually works!  Cramp 911 has been my savior for the past two months.  Gotta thank my friend Steve for this one!

That’s all for now!  Happy Workout, People:)

Muscle Pain From Your Gym Workout

Today is May 15th, which means summer is right around the corner.  Now is about the time you starting seeing people dressing in less clothing and trying to look their best and most physically fit.  People have been hitting the gym since March or April to get ready for the summer, and if you haven’t gone yet, I suggest you do….your lazy a$$ is running out of time.

The trouble with heading back to the gym is that you have to start all over, at least for all of you that don’t go all year round like some of those meatheads…but it’s tough starting over.  If you work out too hard you get muscle cramps and spasms that can hurt and put a cramp (no pun intended) in your workout routine.  This happens to me all the time, and I usually just work through the pain, but a friend of mine, who is a “workout enthusiast” to say the very least (total obsessed gym rat), turned me on to this stuff called Cramp 911, it’s for muscle cramps and muscle spasms.  I gotta say, this stuff WORKS.  I had a neck spasm about a month back and he threw this stuff at me.  It was better in three days…..I usually don’t promote stuff like this on my blog, but I needed to because this stuff works wonders, so check it out!

Finally, Live Up to Your Resolutions

Do you know that January is the most profitable month for gyms? It’s true! People have resolutions to lose weight and get in shape. The thing is, public gyms know this. They also know that people will throw their resolutions right out the window in three months when it becomes “too hard”. That’s the reason you must sign at least a six month contract at a gym, most of them are a year.

The Public Gym is here to help you with some tips to get your lazy ass into shape for 2008. Even though people say it was too hard, or they didn’t have time, or this or that, beating around the bush making excuses, the bottom line is that the reason why people quit going to a gym after a while and waste their money is because of two reasons: They either don’t know how to work out, or they feel uncomfortable working out with other people. The latter, I can’t help you with. That’s a psychological problem and, even though I’ve taken some psychology courses, I’m not an expert and I’d just tell you that you’re wuss.

For the former, though, I probably can help you…People don’t know how to properly work out at a gym, they get sore almost immediately mainly because they try to push too much weight or run too many miles after a year of their muscles practically at the point of atrophe from sitting around so much.

There are so many books and postings on the Internet that tell you how you should work out, how you should eat, when to go to bed for the best weight loss, what kind of diet pill you should take….You don’t know where to start. Here’s a good place to start: Start with you. You, above everybody else, know your body better than anyone. You should consider which workout would be the best for you and then tailor it even further to suit your needs.

Now, when you first work out, you’re going to be sore, that just comes with the territory. Have no fear, it’ll only hurt for a couple days, you pansy…Don’t try to bench press 200 pounds for the sake of seeing the other guy do it, you’re not gonna be able to lift that….start in the mid two digits. If you’re a cardio person, only run for about 5 to 10 minutes on the treadmill…don’t go for the 5 mile marathon right off the start.

Before you do anything, you have to stretch. This may seem like a waste of time, but in order to get your muscles loose you have to stretch. This will also help with the soreness afterwards. Also, like I said, you’re going to be sore, so if girly-man can’t stand the pain, I suggest an ice wrap to put on your muscles for at least 20 minutes a day, five times a day, for several days. This also works for muscle pulls and muscle spasms. If you have a muscle pull, don’t go all hypocondriac, just treat it with an ice pack, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than physical therapy rehab.

Overall, ice packs will help with anything relating to muscle damage, whether it’s a pulled hamstring or a muscle spasm to general muscle soreness. Just by an ice wrap and some topical aesthetic muscle and joint pain relief cream and you’ll be fine. Gyms are expensive, don’t waste your money by going there for only three weeks and paying for it for the rest of the year.

The Heavy Costs of Health Insurance

Do you know that the average American resident pays about $6700 in health insurance a year? Do you know why this is? It’s because America is the fattest nation in the world!! As a matter of fact, six out of seven most common chronic diseases that are caused or worsened by being GIGANTICALLY HUGE!!! cost employers $1.1 trillion in lost productivity alone. Here’s another little nugget of useful information: Some insurance companies charge a 10% to 30% increase in premiums depending on how gargantuan you are! Here’s one more tidbit of info: You fatasses are the reason why health insurance keeps going up! The cancer rate is going down, as well as people with incurable diseases like HIV and the like. Obesity, on the other hand, is going up, waaaaay up, like the needle on your scale and your cholesterol numbers. With obesity going up, so are insurance premiums. The reason why premiums are going up is because the national weight average is going up!

On the other hand, the price of joining a gym ranges from $250 to $500 a year. That’s about $21 to $40 a month, not including initial costs and fees. Plus, if you spend that money, you’ll be doing something good for yourself! Something else will go up too: You’re heart rate! When your heart rate goes up, your body burns more calories, when calories burn, you lose weight. When you lose weight, your insurance premiums go down. I bet you that if you spend two months at a gym, you’ll save about $21 dollars a month in insurance premiums!

But, like everything else that requires hard work, there’s a whole bunch of excuses to go along with joining a gym. All the time, you hear people bitching and moaning, “It’s too hard, it’s too stressful, it hurts my back, I don’t have time….” To these few, of many many more, excuses, I say this:

“Of course it’s too hard at first, your body hasn’t moved since you were 4 years old…lazy ass.”

“If it’s too stressful on your joints, decrease the weight. you’re not Lou Ferrigno, more like Drew Carey. Does he look like he works out?”

“Of course it hurts your back…You know what else hurts your back? All that weight in the front! Your spine has to support that! If it really hurts your back you HUGE baby, put an ice wrap on it…”

“You don’t have time? Well you certainly had enough time to shovel all that food in your mouth, contributing to you being fat, unhealthy, disgusting to look at, great to make fun of and one of the reasons why health insurance is going up…”

Do you see what I mean, people? Excuses are like assholes…everyone’s got one and they all stink. How about this? If you want to work out but don’t want to go to a gym for fear of people making fun of you, buy some used equipment for your home. It costs an average of $375 for a good, used home gym….and no monthly payments! Your excuses, now, are starting to dwindle.

I’m serious, fat-ass people, you need to get in shape. You could at least lose some of that body fat. If you had half the ambition to join a gym that you have eating yourself to death, insurance would go down considerably in this country! Please, us thin people beg you: Put the double-crust meatlovers pizza with extra cheese down and pick up that celery stick. Stop riding through Wal-Mart on those little f&^king scooters that block the ailes and start walking. And, please, when you start walking, don’t walk side by side until you lose weight. You look like a fleet of interstate tractor-trailers. Walk in back of one another. I feel like running for cover, I think I’m gonna get run over.

Quit Smoking Now!!!

So far, the Public Gym has gone after fat adults, anorexics (twice!) and fat kids. It was only a matter of time that we went after the smokers too. Granted, those people have their problems, but smoking is probably the unhealthiest addiction plaguing today’s society. Even though the smoking society has dwindled a bit in the last 10 years, it’s still a health risk for many people. After all, more than 400, 000 people still die each year from smoking related illnesses.

I know you people love your facts (especially you skinny, bean-pole anorexics!), except you have all heard the many stats and little nuggets about how dangerous smoking is. The only fact about this is that cigarettes are the only product on the market that if used properly WILL KILL YOU. So the Public Gym will give you facts based on IF you quit smoking:

- You tend live longer and better

- The chance of developing lung cancer, having a heart attack or a stroke decrease

- Your kids will lead a healthier life, and your unborn kids won’t pop out of you with birth defects

- You get a pay raise! You’ll save so much money you can fund a new vacation each and every year.

If risking your children’s lives don’t make you quit, let’s appeal to your vanity! How about if you stop smoking now, you’ll be able to breathe!! Isn’t that great!?!? If you stop smoking now, people won’t try to run you over going up a flight of steps because you can’t breathe. If you stop smoking now, people won’t pass by you and go “UUUGGGGHHHHHH” because you stink like a Philip Morris factory. If you stop smoking, you won’t age as much and your face won’t look like a roadmap…or if you stop smoking now, you won’t develop those little lines around your lips that make your mouth look like an a$$hole…even though you may act like one because your favorite bar has banned smoking inside because the paradigm has shifted and the majority of people in this country DO NOT smoke and you’re too busy ranting and raving about it instead of doing the right thing and quitting.

So, instead of thinking up excuses to not quit smoking (ie. My job’s too stressful…My dog died…My wife’s cheating on me…) just quit! Put them down, throw them out and think about the positive. Say you buy one pack a day at an average of $5. That’s $1680 a year and you won’t look like a disgusting, wrinkled, old dried up prune! That’s enough for a down payment on a new facelift for your ugly mug! Also, if you stop smoking, people won’t gravitate away from you anymore because you stink…and you thought it was your B.O.

Believe me, if you think it makes you look cool, you’re wrong. Remember James Dean, how he used to smoke and look cool doing it? Well, James Dean is dead. If the car accident didn’t get him, the cancer would’ve. If the cancer wouldn’t have gotten him, he’d be a parody of coolness dragging around an oxygen tank. Is that what you want??

In Response to “The Skinny…”

IN RESPONSE TO “The Skinny…”:

THIS IS DISGUSTING:

THIS IS NOT:

In response to all of the traffic and comments The Public Gym has gotten to the “Hey Ladies…” post, a second post was in order. Anorexics are apparently very sensitive people. They really get on their broom when you post something negative about them…it must be the lack of food. What makes anorexics so special that they have to comment derogatory things on this site? The answer is: They’re NOT special!! They have issues like everybody else, only their issues a lot more noticeable, like when they turn sideways, they disappear.

Since every anorexic wanted facts to go along with us making fun of them, here it goes! Because of very poor nutritional health, anorexia leads to:

- damage of almost every organ, including the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, GI tract, bones, teeth, skin and hair

- Low blood pressure

- Abnormally slow heart rate

- Muscle loss

- reduced bone density

- Dehydration, eventually leading to kidney failure

- Dry and brittle hair and skin

- Retarded growth

Do you know, very skinny boys and girls, what this eventually leads to? DEATH! You will die for the sole purpose of staying skinny. Not thin, skinny…What brought you to this point in your life? Was it peer pressure? Over – achievement? A burning desire to be the best looking? Whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t to slowly and painfully kill yourself. Here’s another fact: Over 1000 women die annually from anorexia. Don’t worry though, it won’t happen to you…morons. Maybe you’ll be in the 1000 next year, or the year after. You’ll all eventually die, though, if you don’t get help. If you want help, here’s a start: Info@waldenbehavioralcare.com. Contact this agency if you’re so sick of starving yourself that you’d bring yourself to eat a gas station hot dog, but you just can’t do it. Jump out of your self – righteous tower and go to the hospital where you need to be fed intravenously because your stomach can’t handle anything solid. The only good thing that could come out of anorexia is that if the human race suddenly went to cannibalism, you’d all get eaten last.

While we’re at it, here’s some facts about me, the administrator of this site:

- Your truly is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict

- I once weighed 255 lbs. I’m now down to 164 with a body fat percentage of 7.5 and I didn’t starve myself! How ’bout that?!?! It’s probably still too fat for you people, though…

- As a result of a car accident and glass flying into my eye, I can only see out of the left one now

Yeah, I’ve had my problems, just like you. I could go on and on about my problems, but I don’t really care and neither does anyone else. I don’t preach about it and I’m not insecure about anything. I also don’t take any of that list seriously. I did what anybody else would have done – I fixed it. I did it the right way too – the hard way. I received treatment and I have a daily regimen that I go through to keep myself on track. I didn’t take a pill, I didn’t starve myself, I didn’t look for the easy way out, especially the weight loss. I ate right, I hit the gym, I still hit the gym, I still eat right and I look great, which I can’t say for you conceited string beans. The bottom line is:

- You can’t take life too seriously, you won’t make it out alive -

Your disease on the other hand, should be taken seriously. Instead of commenting on here about how horrible anorexia is and that The Public Gym shouldn’t make fun of it, go out and get some help.

One more note, and I’ll end on this. This site is meant for PARODY only. If you want real hardcore facts and figures, go somewhere else. The Public Gym is to inform AND entertain (at people’s expense, mind you), but we tend to focus more on entertaining. Besides, people that see life as anything more than pure entertainment are totally missing the point.

I’m hungry, you want to split a pizza?

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