India, Dec. 25 -- Hard-hitting workouts help burn calories and get your heart pumping, which are the main goals of any training session. But you also need to make sure they don't backfire and end up injuring you instead. Otherwise, instead of progressing with your fitness goals, your focus shifts to recovering from the injuries.

Georgia-based orthopaedic surgeon Dr Franky Davis took to Instagram to address this issue in an Instagram 16 post, revealing 5 workouts that can put your joints at risk.

Dr Davis called out kipping pull-ups, saying they put too much stress on the shoulder joints. He instead recommended going for strict pull-ups or late pulldowns, which help minimise the risk. The approach also lowers the chances of chronic shoul...