4 Train for Balance and Mobility
Another tip for strengthening the ligaments is to make sure you train for balance. This means that you need to think about the balance between the different muscles in your body specifically.
The biggest mistake that many of us will make, is to spend time in the gym training only our ‘mirror muscles’ – the muscles that look great in front of the mirror. Doing this will result in us creating a great looking physique, but one that is ultimately less functional and that might result in injury.
Ligaments don’t attach joints directly to muscle – that is the job of tendons. But if the tendons are pulling on the joints all day at different forces, then this applies strain to the ligaments too, which can make injury more likely.
So make sure you’re training those abductors and not just adductors (try throwing in some sumo squats) and make sure that you loosing up your hamstrings to avoid a whole range of issues.