Us lazy, nonathletic couch potatoes can finally be happy, athletes suffer from health problems too and their health problems might just be worse.
Aside from the rigid diet that overloads their system with high levels of protein that can hurt the liver, the heart is effected by the levels of stress, the release of high levels of electrolytes without replenishment, low potassium levels, and an imbalance of sugars can lead to diabetes and heart failure, not to mention the stress and strain put on joints and muscles.
One of the main reasons an athlete can suffer from physical ailments is by having poor form when lifting heavy weight and some injuries take time to become noticeable, and by then the damage has been done. But there is no time to heal, a true athlete must push through the pain or use alternate muscles to move the stress to another point of their body, where eventually that pinpointed pressure will result in another injury.
In some more gruesome cases, when an athletes form is really off, the weightlifter can lose balance and it may cost them a ligament.
Panida Khamsrri of Thailand drops the weights with an injured elbow in Women’s 48KG