If you swim and/or weight lift long enough, chances are you are going to get hurt.
I maintain that you are probably more likely to get hurt weight lifting than swimming, partly because there is considerably more force involved in the former, and partly because most of us on these forums are swimmers first and weight lifters second (if at all), and hence our bodies are more used to swimming than to weight lifting.
I could, certainly, be wrong.
In any event, please participate in this simple poll. Assuming you swim and at least occasionally lift weights and/or do dryland exercises in hopes of improving your swimming performance, which do you personally find more problematic for injuries?
You will have to make a judgment call here, especially if you spend MUCH more time swimming than lifting. (For example, say you swim 6 hours a week and lift 3 x 30 minutes or 1.5 hours a week. Your swimming time is 4x greater than your lifting time, so if you've suffered the same number of injuries from swimming and lifting, then lifting--hour per hour--more dangerous. )
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I voted lifting because it caused a couple nasty pulls in my back, as well as a pain in my elbows that lasted for a few years. Swimming has mostly caused mild tendinitis.
I hope this contributes to your grand theory that lifting weights is a pointless and dangerous activity foisted upon swimmers by the type of big lumpy airheaded bullies who used to kick sand on you at the beach.
I voted lifting because it caused a couple nasty pulls in my back, as well as a pain in my elbows that lasted for a few years. Swimming has mostly caused mild tendinitis.
I hope this contributes to your grand theory that lifting weights is a pointless and dangerous activity foisted upon swimmers by the type of big lumpy airheaded bullies who used to kick sand on you at the beach.
