They lurk in plain sight – in the hands of gym goers everywhere. They come in innocuous colours – blues, reds and pinks (like mine) – probably designed to seem less dangeous than they are… but dangerous they definitely ARE. Attacking gym water bottles are far more dangerous in the hands of some than 30lb dumb bells are in the hands of few. And statistics don’t lie. And statistcs say one moron in 10 million fall prey every day when...

All the gym instructors I’ve trained under have one maxim – increase the weight on the next set. What none of them tell you about are the workout injuries that come from not necessarily pushing too much but pushing it incorrectly. The trickiest exercises are the shoulder muscle workouts. With other body parts, even if you get carried away, the muscles are isolated and so you can minimise the workout injuries. After more than three neck injuries, at least two...