| > 2. Crossfit, Olympic Weightlifting, Powerlifting - 2-6 / 1000 hours This seems about right? Let's say you powerlift 6 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. (This is believable after a year or so.) That's 300 hours. And you're picking up an injury every 170-500 hours. That seems... plausible? What matters is how quickly and completely those injuries heal. If you tweak something, maybe you can just ice it, and maybe you're all healed up in two weeks, no problem. But once you've been powerlifting seriously for a year, you're moving around real weight. Granted, you know you can handle the weight, you're moving it carefully, and you've got safety bars to catch anything you drop. But some of the injuries you might pick up don't go away so easily. And over 40 years of heavy lifting, those numbers can add up. > 1. Bodybuilding - 1 / 1000 hours This represents a 2-6 fold reduction in injury. And you'll be working slowly with lighter weight, so physics probably offers fewer chances for disaster. So I'd guess that bodybuilding has a lower baseline injury rate, and possibly less severe injuries on average? |