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Calisinics are pretty safe and the risk of getting seriously hurt is very low. And you can have some random weird accident of course, but you know, as a means of staying fit, body weight exercises are really good. Unless something strange happens, like your pull-up bar falls apart while you're on it.
The only real injury that the average person runs into or some nagging joint irritations that can pop up. And of course, injury prevention comes down to making sure you use good technique and you progress appropriately. But that being said, some people will still get joint issues even though they're doing everything right, even though they're working with a completely reasonable program and using really great technique.
And if that's the case, you need to look at your exercise selection first because everybody's body is put together a little bit differently. And some exercises or variations just may not agree with you. And in some cases, it doesn't really matter how much you cut your volume down. You just don't tolerate a specific movement. And you know, that's how one-arm chin-ups are for me. I've literally gotten golfer's elbow from doing a single repetition. So, sometimes just replacing one exercise in your program can result in a total resolution of a chronic joint problem. And that can help you stay injury-free and train harder and stay more consistent and ultimately get better results.
So, the other thing you want to pay attention to is your tolerance to different repetition ranges. Now, everyone varies here, but some people might find themselves to be much more sensitive to higher reps and others will be much more sensitive to lower reps. And yes, some people are just very tanky and resistant to injury regardless of the repetition range. But a lot of us are going to find ourselves much more likely to get injured when we train with higher reps or lower reps. And if that's the case for you, then how you program these can make a huge difference in your recoverable volume and injury risk.
And I see this all the time as a coach, but to use myself as an example, I feel very safe with high reps. I'm not prone to those sort of repetition-induced injuries. So, I really like the 12 to 20 or even 12 to 30 repetition range. And I can pretty much do as much of that as I want without running into any issues as long as my exercise selection is good. So, for instance, I could do a couple hundred pull-ups a day and never run into issues with golfer's elbow or anything like that.
However, heavy sets of four to eight with weight that, you know, that's a totally different story. And I don't like to do very much of that because I'm way more likely to get injured. And it's not really a matter of conditioning or preparation. It's just always been that way for me. So maybe that describes you or maybe you are the exact opposite. Or maybe it doesn't matter for you, but if it does, it can be another piece of the puzzle to help you keep your training sustainable.
So I hope that makes sense. If you guys have any questions, let me know. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.