In any sport there is always a risk of getting injured, however there
are several things you can do to reduce the likelihood of an injury:
1: Always warm up properly before training any strength sport.
Dynamic stretches are a good way to warm up your muscles before lifting.
Powerlifting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WUFHKuguY
Weightlifting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF5LLh7kmfk
2: Stretching and Rolling.
3: Be careful of over-training, or training too hard!
While it is tempting to lift heavy all the time, making sure our muscles are getting the recovery time they need is vital to preventing injuries. A good way to make sure you’re
not over-training is by following a program - take a look here for our recommendations.
4) Finally, sleep and nutrition are key in both improving your lifting and avoiding injuries!
As with any exercise, the more lifting you do, the more food and sleep your body needs. There is plenty of information around this online, or you can have a chat with our resident expert, Alex Jackson.
Find more info on preventing injury here
In any sport there is always a risk of getting injured, however there
are several things you can do to reduce the likelihood of an injury:
1: Always warm up properly before training any strength sport.
Dynamic stretches are a good way to warm up your muscles before lifting.
Powerlifting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WUFHKuguY
Weightlifting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF5LLh7kmfk
2: Stretching and Rolling.
3: Be careful of over-training, or training too hard!
While it is tempting to lift heavy all the time, making sure our muscles are getting the recovery time they need is vital to preventing injuries. A good way to make sure you’re
not over-training is by following a program - take a look here for our recommendations.
4) Finally, sleep and nutrition are key in both improving your lifting and avoiding injuries!
As with any exercise, the more lifting you do, the more food and sleep your body needs. There is plenty of information around this online, or you can have a chat with our resident expert, Alex Jackson.
Find more info on preventing injury here
Covid 19 statement
Our community at Barbell is excited to get stronger this year. We want to make sure you do this safely so we can get back to training as normal sooner.
Barbell owns 3 Strength Shop Power bars that we store in the Warwick Sports Hub. Warwick Sport will clean them twice a week but it is our responsibility to make sure these are sanitised before AND after every single use. On arrival in the gym you must collect a personal spray bottle to clean your equipment; blue paper towels can be found throughout the gym.
Warwick Sport is encouraging members not to spot other members. However, if spotting is necessary for your safety we advise members to perform side spots only for bench and squats.
The Warwick Sport rule is to have only 2 members using each rack/platform, i.e. one person squatting/benching in the rack and one person using the platform.
Since the regulations are constantly being updated, we have included links below to the latest government and Warwick Sport guidelines.
Stay safe and stay strong!
https://warwick.ac.uk/coronavirus/
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus