Well, to prevent you from doing squats, you could have ankle/knee/hip/back problems, deadlift, pretty much the same, for bicep curls and bench the only problems you could have are shoulders/wrists/elbow.
The shoulder is one of the most injured joints in the human body. The large range of motion it has also means it has quite loose ligaments, so the muscles have to hold it together. Thus all that stuff you hear about "rotator cuff" - the weakest muscles in the chain.
I have had people tell me that they can't squat because it hurts their shoulders... but they bench every workout.
I do agree with you that too many people 'say' they are injured when they aren't.
I love it how everyone turned into a "hard man" ever since Markos joined, very influential ain't he?
I don't think I've changed my tone since I started here, which is before Markos (I believe he found this place because I started linking to his newsletters). I am not a hard man. I just have some resolve - I decided to do a workout programme while following the advice of my physio, and I stuck to that.
I got my tone and attitude from the Army. There, you go for a run, you fall down.
NCO: "Are you injured or sick?"
Recruit: "I'm tired..."
NCO: "
Are you injured or sick?"
Recruit: "No."
NCO: "Then get the fck up and keep going."
Alternately,
NCO: "Are you injured or sick?"
Recruit: "Yes."
NCO: "Okay, I'll help you up and we'll go straight over to the Regimental Aid Post to get you checked out."
It is bad to be a wuss and give up just because you're tired. It is
equally bad to try to be so hard that you push through and injure yourself.
Let's be honest: we usually do
know when it's just hard, and when we've injured ourselves.
Lazy people pretend injury when it's hard,
stupid people keep going when they're injured.
We should not be lazy or stupid. Don't be a wuss, but do take care of yourself.