HOW WEIGHT TRAINING MAY LEAD TO INJURIES DURING A SEASON

Abstract

Be it hockey, football, athletics, cricket, basketball, discus or javelin throw, badminton, tennis or kabbadi; ‘core’ plays a very important role in all sporting/throwing movements. Our core is also the epicentre for transferring force between the lower and upper limb. The thoracolumbar fascia that entangles the lower limb with upper limb plays a key role in transferring the force between the limbs. Any sporting movement will take use of all the 4 subsystems – common muscle synergies, working as a cohesive unit to produce the required action in sports. For the purposes of this research we will be looking at two subsystems: Deep Longitudinal subsystem and Posterior Oblique subsystem, to study the effect of heavy weight training on the functioning of these subsystems.