"We can all increase our activity when working or commuting with simple measures such as avoiding lifts, walking more, cycling to work and getting off the bus or tube one extra stop away".
During his rehabilitation from his strained left hamstring, Martínez avoided lifting heavy weights, which he said helped loosen his shoulder.
Farida Yesmin advises a young mother, expecting her fourth child, of the need to rest and avoid lifting heavy pots of water.
Young claims the shipping company refused to accommodate her pregnancy by giving her a temporary assignment to avoid lifting heavy packages.
When talking with patients, doctors and nurses often say things with unintended negative suggestions, like "it's just going to bleed a bit" or "you must avoid lifting heavy objects — you don't want to end up paralyzed".
Young was pregnant with Triniti, who is now seven, when UPS told her she could not have a temporary assignment to avoid lifting heavy packages, as her doctor had ordered.
A car must not only slice through the air but also generate hundreds of pounds of downforce to remain stable and avoid lifting off like a run-amok plane.
Rather than advise people to avoid lifting, they should be taught to make regular lifting part of their everyday routine.
Or, even worse, that they might avoid lifting weights or training hard because they don't want to "bulk up" and look more like the muscular athletes they are than catwalk models.
Women understood they should avoid lifting heavy loads of laundry, refrain from lifting the toddler and desist from driving.
