When we are young we feel like we can tackle the world. Nothing can stop us, this is true untill the stupid things we do catches up with us.
Working out is awesome and gives us many benefits. Despite all these benefits we should realise that working out for 3-5 days a week will add stress on our body. If we don’t think about what we do we might get injured and possibly quit working out for a longer time. This in turn can lead us to stop working out forever. The best thing to prevent this from happening is to find what has the most negative effects on our body and how to avoid it. An injury is very detrimental to our gains and to our motivation. To avoid this look for a warm up routine that is tailored to the needs of your body.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. – Alexander Smith
My personal warm up routine consists mainly of solutions to previous injuries and a preparation of the coming exercise with lower, or no, weight. Warm ups for previous injuries consist of shoulder, elbow and rear delt work. Preceding your working set with a warm up set has the advantage of making it easy for yourself, not having to search for new exercises to warm up.
Injuries are an unfortunate evil that no matter how smart you train you will always encounter it. It may happen a lot less frequent to you than people who don’t warm up, but you can’t 100% avoid it. Yes, you can not workout, this means that you wont get injured working out. But the injuries will still happen, just in your daily life. Injuries themselves are not the problem, it is the difficult moment after them that it difficult. You will constantly have to be on the look not to get injured again. Or you stop pushing yourself, which will in turn avoid you getting injured. However it will also stop letting you improve further.