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 answered "weights/dry land" only because I had to stop running a few years ago because my knees are simply torn up. Cysts and missing meniscus (sp?) and now if I try to run anything longer than a mile, my right knee blows up like a puffer fish and for three days I limp.
However, I've never hurt myself weight-lifting. My wife would say because I never push myself enough (she's a nut about lifting), but I would say it is because I lift safely. I lift twice a week, and mostly do "core" things. I never do any shoulders, as swimming gives me enough (TI people would say too much); I work on the muscles not stressed during FR swimming, like the biceps, but also back, triceps and my trunk. I have noticed improvements in both weight lifted and in my swimming, but the swimming increases could easily be attributed to my attention to technique.
I answered "weights/dry land" only because I had to stop running a few years ago because my knees are simply torn up. Cysts and missing meniscus (sp?) and now if I try to run anything longer than a mile, my right knee blows up like a puffer fish and for three days I limp.
However, I've never hurt myself weight-lifting. My wife would say because I never push myself enough (she's a nut about lifting), but I would say it is because I lift safely. I lift twice a week, and mostly do "core" things. I never do any shoulders, as swimming gives me enough (TI people would say too much); I work on the muscles not stressed during FR swimming, like the biceps, but also back, triceps and my trunk. I have noticed improvements in both weight lifted and in my swimming, but the swimming increases could easily be attributed to my attention to technique.
