Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

Why most athletes get injured

13 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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In this segment, Mark Ottobre explains that athletic injuries stem from unaddressed movement weaknesses rather than strengths. He argues that athletes naturally gravitate toward their strengths, which paradoxically become the source of injury when they encounter situations requiring untrained patterns. Ottobre emphasizes the need to identify these movement discrepancies and correct them through targeted weight‑training programs, warning that training only the movements athletes enjoy reinforces the same patterns and leaves them vulnerable to injury when faced with unfamiliar demands.

My job is to expose your weaknesses and go after them, especially from an athletic endeavor, because when you're playing a game, you're going to get injured based on your weaknesses, not your strength. You're going to move towards your strengths, and that's usually where you'll get injured. But to expose the weaknesses— what are the discrepancies in how you move? Then we fix them with our weight training. Most people just do what they like. If you do what you like all the time, you're just going to strengthen the same pattern. The pattern that you're not prepared for injures you.