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[quote=Anonymous]I recently took a class in a niche physical activity (I don't want to say which one because it might identify me or the place, it's not pole dancing but think something like that).

The class I took had 10 students in it, and I quickly learned I was the only first time student -- everyone else had been doing this activity for a while. In talking to the other students, I learned most of them had been doing it once or twice a week for years. It's a hard activity that requires a lot of physical strength to progress.

Of the 9 return students, three of them were clearly very fit and had a lot of physical strength that was enabling them to do this activity at a high activity.

The rest were extremely unfit. Some were overweight, which I think could pose a potential injury risk for this activity. Some were not overweight but clearly did little or no strength training outside this activity. I honestly am concerned about how often these folks are doing a demanding, strength focused hobby given that even after years, they have not put in the time to build strength to do it well. All of these students were working at what appeared to be basically a beginning level.

The place hosting us seemed to celebrate these students and the staff were super supportive, telling them how proud they were of them for performing basic skills that, in some cases, they did in what looked to me to be an unsafe way. I get that these are the customers and the business is trying to be supportive and also encourage repeat business.

But at what point is this some kind of malpractice. Several of the other students told me about injuries they had had doing this activity, including repetitive stress injuries that were clearly due to doing a strength-intensive activity without proper form. I honestly feel like I should maybe file a complaint with this business -- I used to be a personal trainer and I cannot imagine exposing any of my former clients to this sort of risk for injury just to be "encouraging" or to ensure they keep paying me. But the activity was fun and I could see doing it again, I just don't know if I can patronize a business I think to be irresponsible in this way.

It was alarming. Has anyone else encountered this? What did you do?[/quote]

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