Training with heavy weights without allowing tendons to adapt can lead to injury. — Whalespan
Training with heavy weights without allowing tendons to adapt can lead to injury.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“if you think you can always train the way that you did when you were younger and just hit those heavy weights if you get injured and you are not allowing your tendons to keep up then overall injury over time again this is what we would call maybe not a catabol crises but close”