Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
Players are bigger, faster and stronger than ever but they seem to get hurt easier. Not just in football but in all sports. Look at how often players are on the IR even in a non contact sport like baseball.
Maybe they have reached the physical limits of what the body can stand. Muscles get bigger and denser but bones and ligaments don't. Maybe they need to spend less time working out in the weight room and more time practicing their skills on the field or court. I've heard so ex athletes say that too many kids concentrate on one sport from an early age and never develop overall. They also may be getting so many reps at a young age that they are worn out by the time they reach their mid 20s.
Twelve year old kids going to QB camps and throwing over and over. Young pitchers throwing breaking balls at 11 years old. Certain parts of the body only can stand so much wear and tear. The shoulder and elbow are both joints that get a lot of stress when throwing any type of ball. The knees get beat up the more you run and cut.
I don't know if any of these things are contributing to the increase in injuries but something is causing them. Thewre is also one other thing that comes into play. Money. With the increase in salaries comes an increase in caution.
Agree that players are bigger, faster and stronger, but also science has improved (example, ACL and Achilles heel injuries used to be career ending injuries). Again, I think there is a mental component to injuries, and as an example look at Tom Brady, he's still playing and he's almost as old as Moses.
Roger Bannister was the first guy to run a 4 minute mile. At first everybody thought it was impossible to run a miie in four minutes, and after Roger broke that barrier - thousands of athletes have broken that barrier since then. It just goes to show that there is a mental component to physical achievement.
A four-minute mile is the completion of a mile run (1609 m) in four minutes or less. It was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister, at age 25, in 3:59.4.[1] As of April 2021, the "four-minute barrier" has been broken by 1,663 athletes,[2] and is now a standard of professional middle distance runners in several cultures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_mile
