Can beginners or individuals with no sports background experience injuries when they start exercising? ( in terms of psychology, medicine, physiology, pathology and other aspects)
What are the potential risks of individuals starting an exercise routine without the guidance of a coach, and how likely are they to experience injuries in the absence of professional supervision?
Hi Kasra Khayami, I hope you are doing well.
The answer to your question depends primarily on the outcome measure that you are interested in. For example, in older individuals, supervised balance and/or resistance training improves measures of balance and muscle strength/power to a greater extent than unsupervised programs in older adults (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-017-0747-6).
Furthermore, in the general population, supervised training modalities tend to elicit small/marginal benefits for other physical domains such as speed, power, function, endurance, and even for body composition adaptations. However, strength adaptations are the most favored when a supervised program is implemented (https://journal.iusca.org/index.php/Journal/article/view/101).
To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of any evidence that supports supervised training as a way to reduce injury risk for some specific sport in comparison to non-supervised training. But I could infer that in any domain, implementing a physical training program without knowledge of the variables needed to induce proper adaptations could result in the same or higher injury risk than a supervised program.
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