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A colleague, who is a qualified sports physiotherapist, decided to join a gym with the intention to lose weight. After a few sessions, she called me up in great pain. She could barely walk for three days —apparently, as a result of some of the exercises she had done. Curiously though, despite being a physiotherapist and realising that some of the exercises she had been asked to do could be damaging, she went ahead as instructed.
Her case is not an isolated one, though. Often, against our better judgement, we approach exercising in a blinkered manner — without enough research
