Reducing ski injuries and stuff

jakirikiki

jakirikiki

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Never do static streching before any sport related activity, it does't lower your chances of getting injured. Warming and non-static stretching, however, does help preventing injuries! Stretching after excercise also does't reduce the risk of injury; technically, if your muscles and antagonist muscles (for exemple Biceps and triceps or quadriceps and iscios) are of equivalent strengh, you should not get injuried. This, on the other hand, will prevent you from increasing your flexibility (since you're not stretching: duh!) so if you think you need flexibility for any other activity, strech before (stretching before reduces your muscles strengh by 10-20%). Also, drinking enough water prevents dehyddratation, which increases the risks of injuries and muscle cramps (and everyone knows that sucks).

As soon as you get injuried (muscle/ligaments/etc. wise, this doesn't apply to broken bones, put some ice (or even better, if you can, submerge the injuried part in ice cold water) on it for 15 minutes. This will reduce inflammation and will drastically reduce your recovery time. Never put hot packs on injuried muscles within the first 48 hrs of the injury, this will increase inflammation and thus make recovery time much much much longer!

Eating proteins right after you're done with your ski day will decrease immensily your muscles recovery time (you'll get less sore). Eating within 30 mins after the exercice is the optimal time, otherwise, the sooner the better. You'll also need some carbs for your body to effectively use the proteins (gellybeans or any fruit/veggie will do fine, they are easily transformable carbs).

Never attempt intense stuff when you're tired, this is the best thing to do to get injuried. This is because your muscles are tired and don't protect your ligaments as good (can someone say broken ACL's?). When your muscles are fresh, they will protect your ligaments more effectively.

Alcohol dehydrates the body, wich increases the chances of injuries and cramps. This only applies if you do some hardcore stuff, plus drink some water with your beer/vodka/rhum and you can get drunk and not get injuried (pro tip for ya drunkies). Being drunk also makes your muscles more relaxed, this decreases the intensity of injuries (true story, that is why drunk drivers usually get less hurt that the people they hit)

If any of you are skeptical, I can link to the PubMed atricles.

TL: DR? Well fuck you and get injuried, suck a fat one and don't progress.

 
Actually, you posted this in helpful things you may not know thread. keep it there.

No need to make another thread just for this.
 
actually, i can tell that english is not your first language... of if it is, you need to work on your diction as well as your grammar...

good tips, not threadworthy.
 
you'd think you'd proofread a douchebag comment like this to avoid looking like an even bigger douchebag.
 
Yup, english isn't my first language. Though I think this is difnatly threadworthy, unless everyone on newschoolers knows about this kind of stuff.
 
agreed with everything except this. how does stretching after working out not decrease your risk of getting injured? if you work out hard then dont stretch, your muscles will tighten up and become more likely to get hurt next time you exercise. stretching after you work out is just as important as stretching before you work out
 
There's this, also. But in any case, if you want to keep your flexibility or augment it, you must strech 3 to 5 times a week...

But then again, I stretch after each time I do sport and it does make me feel better...
 
where does that say anything about stretching after working out not helping prevent injuries? all it says is that strength training is a better way to prevent injuries than stretching is, which i agree with
 
still doesn't say it doesn't help, just says there isn't much evidence yet. and even if it doesn't help, it certainly doesn't hurt to stretch after working out
 
reduces strength by 10-20%, i gym a lot and find this hard to believe not sure were they are getting these numbers from
 
That's false man...

It depends on the sport you're doing. It's thrue for sports like running, bike, swimming, etc. For acrobatic sports (trampoline, tumbling, dancing, freeskiing, etc) 7-10sec static stretching will help prevent injuries. You need to stretch ligaments and tendons so that if you fuck-up and fall they don't snap becose they were too stiff.
 
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