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!
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.
Brutus will rue the day he kicked sand in my face!
But to answer your hope, yes. Very satisfactory poll results, I must say!
Joking aside, my teammate Mark re-started swimming about a year ago, and has been doing absolutely fine, until he fell under the spell of our Goddess of the Dryland Fad Activities, did something to his shoulder as a consequence, and is now forced to use--god help him!--fins.
This may be the subject of my next Danger Alert!!!! poll: swimming the natural way vs. swimming with the expensive assortment of pool gadgets that increase the health of gadget manufacturers at the expense of swimmer's health.
Hand paddles, kick boards, and perhaps the most dangerous of all swimming contraptions: the bikini.
Lord knows I have suffered, in my time, from them all, bikinis most of all.
Truth be known, I never thought I'd removed all the sand Brutus kicked into my eyes after I laughed at him in his bikini. Who would have thought hirsute transvestite bullies would be so quick to take offense?
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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.
Brutus will rue the day he kicked sand in my face!
But to answer your hope, yes. Very satisfactory poll results, I must say!
Joking aside, my teammate Mark re-started swimming about a year ago, and has been doing absolutely fine, until he fell under the spell of our Goddess of the Dryland Fad Activities, did something to his shoulder as a consequence, and is now forced to use--god help him!--fins.
This may be the subject of my next Danger Alert!!!! poll: swimming the natural way vs. swimming with the expensive assortment of pool gadgets that increase the health of gadget manufacturers at the expense of swimmer's health.
Hand paddles, kick boards, and perhaps the most dangerous of all swimming contraptions: the bikini.
Lord knows I have suffered, in my time, from them all, bikinis most of all.
Truth be known, I never thought I'd removed all the sand Brutus kicked into my eyes after I laughed at him in his bikini. Who would have thought hirsute transvestite bullies would be so quick to take offense?
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