I was physically most at risk after I had put on 50lbs of muscle and was routinely breaking lifting goals:
Too heavy benchpress / lifting under fatigue to promote growth --> high risk of accidents.
Too little stretching and lots of heavy squats /deadlifts made my back very tight and prone to injury.
A workout biased towards a high back:chest ratio didn't offset all the time I spent at a computer, so my shoulders would round forward but now my muscles/tendons are even bulkier and have more friction with my joints
I realized if I'm not strict with correct form, range of motion, rest between sets, proper progressions, stretching, etc, hypertropic workouts are more dangerous than beneficial. And if I am strict with everything, I can recover and get stronger at a much healthier pace even if I never lift more than half the weight I used to (just slow the tempo down). I might not get as muscular as before, but I got no benefits from being bulky.
Too heavy benchpress / lifting under fatigue to promote growth --> high risk of accidents.
Too little stretching and lots of heavy squats /deadlifts made my back very tight and prone to injury.
A workout biased towards a high back:chest ratio didn't offset all the time I spent at a computer, so my shoulders would round forward but now my muscles/tendons are even bulkier and have more friction with my joints
I realized if I'm not strict with correct form, range of motion, rest between sets, proper progressions, stretching, etc, hypertropic workouts are more dangerous than beneficial. And if I am strict with everything, I can recover and get stronger at a much healthier pace even if I never lift more than half the weight I used to (just slow the tempo down). I might not get as muscular as before, but I got no benefits from being bulky.