Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

4173.689 - 4205.263 Stuart McGill

Right. And so it is so asymmetric with injury. Training, if you push, is taking a risk. You might gain a little bit in short-term resilience or short-term performance, but you have a chance of really screwing things up. And an injury is really asymmetrically harmful. So when we work with People and athletes, we really try and avoid injury because of the asymmetry of the consequence. Injury is bad.