I know family members, personal training or bootcamp fitness clients and friends who have been seriously injured playing sports or performing daily tasks like shifting furniture or carrying kids. The question is are these preventable? Well, they are preventable if they are non contact – i.e. you were not punched, kicked or tackled! However almost all non-contact injuries are preventable with the right kind of athlete training programs.

Below are two videos inspired I believe by Australian sports performance coach Ian King, one of the veterans of the field of sports conditioning, and a man who has helped many athletes get medals in international competition. They illustrate how the usual mindset of “oh it’s just my bad luck that I’m injured” is wrong and doesn’t make sense.

Proper strength training can vastly reduce the chances of all injury.