Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?

Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by jclos on Friday April 10, 2015 @02:50PM (#9356356)

While I agree with your point (start low, build up slowly) I wish you hadn't used Crossfit as a textbook example of weight training. Weight training has one of the lowest injury rates in sports.

Reference: http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Safety.html

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Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? by chuckcode on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:44PM (#9357269)

I'm sorry if my comment came across as saying that CrossFit is exemplary of all weight training.

My intention is to just highlight the importance of taking your time. Weight training can have very low injury rates, but the rates go up when looking at power lifting[1]. Under "soreness and injury section" in Starting Strength Mark Rippetoe himself says "...everyone who trains with weights will have: soreness and injuries."

Both Starting Strength and Crossfit utilize large compound exercises like squats and power cleans that can be difficult to master and my assumption is that more people have heard of Crossfit so I thought it would be useful for comparison. Personally I am a big fan of the squat and other compound exercises for results but it is important to learn them well before advancing to higher weights, hence Starting Strength is 300+ pages for a 5 exercise routine.

[1] Table 2 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483033/

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