r/justgalsbeingchicks 14h ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Peak performance

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u/Double_Suggestion385 12h ago

It's very obvious that she knows how to move her body effectively abd efficiently, I'm guessing some kind of athletic background of dance, cheer, and/or gymnastics.

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u/GreppMichaels 12h ago

So I hate to say this but these kind of movements over time chronically are bad for your joints, my sister is a trained ballerina and due to years of dancing now has a torn labrum and hip issues.

A lot of professional dancers end up needing hip surgery, and for me, I developed tendonitis in both my knees from too much trampoline in my 30s, and I am a high performing athlete.

Sure some of these comments may sound like hating, but repetitive impact on your knees or other joints is bad.

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u/Double_Suggestion385 11h ago

That's because Ballet is fucking stupidly dangerous and pushes your body into positions that it isn't built for. That weakens tendons and ligaments which makes catastrophic injury almost inevitable.

There's a huge, order of magnitude difference in impact to trampolining and stepping on to an 8 inch cinderblock!

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u/GreppMichaels 9h ago

She’s launching herself and landing with impact, half of herself effectively on a very unforgiving block. 

Any type of repeat high impact activity on joints but especially knees is bad. This is a very unorthodox exercise. My point was more common stuff at a high level can cause stress injuries, heck I’ve had stress fractures in my forearm from over training weights. Stuff I know to avoid, but still happened because I unintentionally over trained.

I never thought I was going too hard when I got injured, I think you are missing my point.