What are three strategies for preventing/avoiding muscle strain?

What will be an ideal response?


Proper warm up is important. Some people put great emphasis on stretching others put relatively little emphasis on stretching. Regardless, there should be an indication that active warm up in which the person moves to the point of breaking a sweat is important for preventing muscle strains.

Conditioning – Conditioning allows proper progression so a person is not working harder than their body is capable of working

Proper technique – good mechanics help muscles work efficiently

Proper rest – the body needs a rest/recovery period between exercise bouts

Early recognition of soreness, fatigue – we can prevent a minor problem from becoming an injury if we pay attention to our bodies

Avoiding over working muscles – for example you do not have an athlete run 10 miles if they have not trained to do so

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What will be an ideal response?

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