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 have had more minor injuries from strength training/dryland workouts (circuit classes and plyometrics) than swimming, mostly due to poor/sloppy form. I jumped into a circuit class not too long ago and let my competitive nature get the better of my by trying to keep up with a group that had been attending the same class for quite some time. (I admit that I should know better!) Tweaked my shoulder a bit doing push ups. As a charter member of the "used to be" club (as in I used to be stronger, thinner, faster, etc.), my brain remembers what my body has forgotten. I have to remember to allow a little more recovery time and to ease in to activities that I haven't done for a while.
I have had more minor injuries from strength training/dryland workouts (circuit classes and plyometrics) than swimming, mostly due to poor/sloppy form. I jumped into a circuit class not too long ago and let my competitive nature get the better of my by trying to keep up with a group that had been attending the same class for quite some time. (I admit that I should know better!) Tweaked my shoulder a bit doing push ups. As a charter member of the "used to be" club (as in I used to be stronger, thinner, faster, etc.), my brain remembers what my body has forgotten. I have to remember to allow a little more recovery time and to ease in to activities that I haven't done for a while.
