This picture is taken from a gym blog that celebrates this kind of injury as accomplishment. This to me is not, in anyway accomplishment, this is a mistake. I will concede that with enough high intensity, sports performance based training, injuries are going to happen, no athlete stays 100% healthy 100% of the time. On the other hand I battle everyday to safeguard with every means possible, to prevent such injuries from happening. If your sport is fitness, then great, go ahead and hack up your hands. I work with athletes that train with my to improve their sport, not their "Fran" score. If this athlete plays golf, is a quarterback, plays tennis or baseball, and you have caused such an injury because you are doing workouts containing nine thousand swinging pullups, that athlete can no longer practice their sport, and you have failed as a coach.
We have experimented with many training protocols over the 15 years we have been in business, and I will admit, we have done workouts that result in this kind of stupidity. The only difference is we figured out these practices were stupid and ultimately unproductive and moved on to research more productive methods to produce athletic improvement, in as safe an environment as possible.
