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. )
Thanks for participating!
The only swimming-induced injury I can think of in my 30+ years of the sport was just in the last few months caused by starting too forcefully off the blocks. I've been lucky, very lucky in the pool and pretty lucky on land, but, anytime I've had shoulder or back problems, I'm 95% certain they came from a dryland/weight exercise or life where I was doing something like weights (e.g., lugging luggage).
The only swimming-induced injury I can think of in my 30+ years of the sport was just in the last few months caused by starting too forcefully off the blocks. I've been lucky, very lucky in the pool and pretty lucky on land, but, anytime I've had shoulder or back problems, I'm 95% certain they came from a dryland/weight exercise or life where I was doing something like weights (e.g., lugging luggage).
