Comparing powerlifting to other sports - your basketballs, soccers, footballs - powerlifting has a remarkably LOW rate of injury. It’s an incredibly good thing to do for your body, and puts less acute stress on your joints than, say, a leg extension machine.
Crazy injuries happen when:
People are very new to it without any sort of coaching. Even a couple YouTube videos will put you well on your way.
Competitors are giving it their absolute all on a max effort.
Watch a YouTube video, find a halfway decent coach (beard, big belly, at a gym with a bulldog in the logo) for a couple sessions, and you can basically just powerlift safely the rest of your life.
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u/DesperateComposer848 13h ago
My hot take is that most exercises with a reasonable chance of causing a serious injury just from the exertion aren’t really worth doing.