The common advice is to lighten up the weight quite a bit when targeting an injury-prone part of your body. That’s decent advice… …but if you lift a weight explosively it can be just as risky, if not more risky, than lifting a heavier weight at a slow pace. A surprising number of injuries happen when the weight is light. Joint injuries or muscle strains tend to happen during the Stretch Shortening Cycle of a lift. This is the point in a lift where you reverse the direction of the bar.

The common advice is to lighten up the weight quite a bit when targeting an injury-prone part of your body. That’s decent advice… …but if you lift a weight explosively it can be just as risky, if not more risky, than lifting a heavier weight at a slow pace. A surprising number of injuries happen when the weight is light. Joint injuries or muscle strains tend to happen during the Stretch Shortening Cycle of a lift. This is the point in a lift where you reverse the direction of the bar.

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