Why You Should Prioritise proper form in Your training to avoid injuries and Increase Performance
- Kaitlyn Marie Redmore
- Oct 15, 2024
- 2 min read
Proper lifting technique and form are crucial to avoiding injury and keeping you lifting as you age.
Prioritising your form when training is vital to achieving your goals, and more importantly, avoiding injuries. No matter your experience level, you must always focus on executing exercises with proper technique.
Here are some of the key reasons why focusing on your exercise technique and form is so important:
Injury Prevention: Improper form and poor technique can lead to unnecessary strain on your muscles and joints. Mastering correct exercise techniques and maintaining proper form throughout each rep will help keep you safe and less likely to sustain injuries. Priortise learning proper lifting technique before increasing weights.
Increased Performance: Using correct form and good technique in the gym will help accelerate your progress. Good lifting form can allow you to load up your muscles more effectively, leading to better strength and power production.
Better Results: Targeting the correct muscles when lifting helps to maximise your progress, proper form and technique will allow you to ensure the correct muscles are loaded properly and safely.
Improved Mind-Muscle Connection: Improper form can lead to feeling muscles engaging in an exercise that shouldn't be. Focusing on your technique and form will help you build a stronger mind-to-muscle connection and help you activate and engage the correct muscles.
Keep pushing toward your goals, but never sacrifice good technique for an extra rep, it really isn't worth it. That extra rep you push for with bad technique could be the rep that leads to injury. I am all for challenging yourself but always do so safely. Only lift weights you know you can maintain proper form with. If your technique breaks down under fatigue, don't compromise to finish a set, there is no shame in going a little lighter to maintain proper form.
Ensure you are continuously working on your technique to ensure safety when lifting and to help prevent injuries.
