why do you think lifting heavy damages joints? does anybody in this ****ing thread want to provide any evidence about lifting heavy damaging joints?
I can understand ligament and tendon damage and muscle sprains, but only from being a ****ing retard and trying to lift more than you are able. What everyone must accept is that "heavy" is relative. You should be lifting a weight that is heavy for you, not a weight that is heavy full stop. When you get told "lift heavy", it means "find your 1RM and rep 75-90% of it". Is that really so hard to understand?
Also, someone mentioned earlier that getting "big" is cumbersome in sports and useless and doesn't improve hand eye coordination etc; basically doesn't make you any better at the sport. Well, first off, lifting heavy is vital for improving explosiveness, which is needed in nearly every sport. Secondly, why does all training have to be geared towards helping a game sport? Why can't you lift heavy for the sake of it? As a hobby? Why can't it be a competitive sport on its own - weightlifting or powerlifting? Some people genuinely enjoy lifting to get stronger without it being for vanity's sake. For some people lifting is spiritual, it's like meditation, the mindfulness, the way of the empty mind.
Other people lift to have a great body, sure, and even then, realistically speaking, for the average person to gain a relatively good amount of muscle mass and drop bodyfat to look better, lifting is fairly vital. Different people have different goals. Some people need to be able to lift heavy **** above their heads for a job's sake, some people need to lift and move heavy machinery or ****. Live and let live.