Introduction
Certainly, much has been documented regarding the significant role of exercise as an antidote for obesity, mental health illnesses, and other conditions that have evolved into issues of public health concerns across various contexts all over the globe. It is with this regard that both the young and the old; women and men, have equally sought professional help on how they can exercise for the sake of being “active.” Worth noting is the fact that the recent past has experienced an upsurge in the number of women and children enrolled for different training programs in preparation for athletic performances and for fitness purposes. Evidently, women and children exhibit certain features that make them prone to various issues related to training. Based on a personal thought, the most important issue that faces children as they train is injury.
Discussion
The persistent increase in the number of training injuries amongst women and children make the issue on injury one of the most pertinent training issues facing women and children. In fact, this has led to emergence of a contentious topic questioning the eligibility of women and children for resistance trainings. Nevertheless, children and women are eligible for resistance training, which should be coupled with specific limitations (Fleck & Kraemer, 2004). Evidently, differences in biomechanics, anatomy and hormonal factors makes women close to nine times more vulnerable to injury. Similarly, children are more predisposed to injury based on the mere fact that their structural body components are undergoing development; hence, not strong enough to support resistance training exercises. In nutshell, women and children lack strong hamstring and quadriceps that provides immense muscular support during exercise. This analysis depicts the manner in which injury is a primary issue of concern amongst women and children.
Researches carried out in the recent past indicate that indeed children and women are more predisposed to training injuries than men. Many at times, sports injuries amongst women and children are precipitated by a wider array of factors. Above all, the poor training practices are more eminent amongst women and children than men (Fleck & Kraemer, 2004). It is such poor training practices that predispose this subgroup (women and children) to sports related accidents that result in injuries. In addition, women and children often disregard the need to carry out warm ups and stretching as a perquisite for the full trainings. In the context of resistance training, injury connotes to injuries that are confined to the musculoskeletal systems, which is made up of bones, muscles and cartilage tissues. Common training injuries that are eminent amongst women and children are inclusive but not limited to knee injuries, sprains and strains.
How to prevent injuries amongst women and children
Injury jeopardizes the “training prowess” of children and women. As such, there is the need to devise various strategies that can minimize the occurrence of such injuries. In fact, these strategies offer a viable platform that assure safe, productive and enriching training platform for children and women who are evidently more probe to this menace. One of the strategies that can be utilized in enhancing the training environment of the vulnerable groups discussed herein is by ensuring that women and children work carry out lighter exercises that can allow them to perform more than eight repetitions of the same exercise. In addition, injuries amongst women and children can be prevented by ensuring that there is variation on the exercise performed by these two groups (Fleck & Kraemer, 2004). This will minimize the occurrence of persistent stress on specific body parts, which often leads to the occurrence of overuse injuries.
Conclusion
Reference
Fleck, S. J., & Kraemer, W. J. (2004). Designing resistance training programs. Champaign, Ill. [u.a.: Human Kinetics.
