https://www.strongerbyscience.com/powerlifting-injuries-factors/
I see A LOT of stuff on here about how X Y and Z all will cause injury. How you will break yourself if you do more than 3 days a week, how lifting heavy sets will increase injury risk, how specific lifts (cough, deadlifts/squats) will cripple you for life. While I appreciate that there is a lot of fear-mongering in the fitness world and that it might leave beginners, aka the bulk of the users here, a bit bar-shy, I think it is important to realize that plenty of valid training techniques and lifts are not just waiting to rip your shoulders apart or snap your back.
What this analysis of the reported programming choices and injury rate of 350 powerlifters1 found was, in brief:
-Having a pre-existing injury or other limitation was massively correlated with injury rate.
-Being a guy might be associated with getting injured.
-Cardio might be protective against injury.
And that is it. Number of heavy sets (85%+), frequency of Squat/bench/dead, number of days worked a week, and multiple other factors, all were NOT significantly correlated with injury rates.
Now, like the author says, DO NOT TAKE THIS AS GOSPEL. Like any other study this one is not perfect, but please at least consider that MAYBE injuries are not as easy to predict as you might think and that you can train heavy, train often, and train those scary deadlifts without the barbell animating and clobbering your kneecaps into dust.
1 I think its worth noting in the main post that they defined injury as:
“Acute injury is defined as 1) any bone fracture, muscle/ligament/tendon tear, or joint sprain/dislocation/separation; 2) any injury that necessitated a trip to an MD or PT (not a chiropractor or massage therapist); 3) any injury of any variety that necessitated taking time off from training for two weeks or greater. For example, a knee injury that required you to stop squatting for three weeks even though you never stopped benching would be considered an acute injury. Being sore and skipping one workout would not be considered an injury.”
And that the "powerlifters" that made up the population were just people who responded to a request to participate on social media. As such, I really doubt that all or even most are actually high level experienced power-lifters. Rather they are probably mostly amateurs or self-identified 'powerlifters' because they train SBD, so they probably mirror the average population here pretty well.
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* This article was originally published here
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