Weekend Warriors Rise

Packing in a rigorous workout regime for the weekend is not the best way to reap benefits from exercising. It makes you prone to injuries.

- Geetmala Sarkar

A 35-year old middle level employee does not manage to get time to engage in any sports or physical exercise from Monday to Friday. He packs everything for the weekend and as soon as weekend steps in, he goes for a good three hours of high-intensity football. Explaining this fast-growing lifestyle trend of ‘weekend warriors’, Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Consultant, Arthroscopy and Sports Orthopaedics at Fortis Hospital Anandapur, Kolkata alerts, “There is a rising percentage of weekend warrior injuries we come across in our day-to-day clinical practice that was hardly the case around five years back. It is alarming.”

A big chunk of people are sedentary. They do not exercise much or do not get the time to exercise every day. They tend to make their weekends full of strenuous activities. These are exactly who our weekend warriors are. Dr Gupta clarifies, “These are not only young people but are typically in the age-group ranging from late 20s till their mid or late 40s. They are particularly those people, who at one point in their lives, were physically very active, as in their teens and early 20s, but due to demands from jobs or other corners have not been able to keep up an active lifestyle. So, they try to fill up weekends with high levels of activity.”