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!
Hum di dum. Hmmmm. Should I then quit all shoulder/weight/scapular stabilization exercises and let my shoulders rest and then swim like the natural fish that I am?
Hum di dum. I do notice that lifting a 5-lb weight to the back while lying on my stomach, and 3-lb weights out to the side, again, while lying on my stomach, seems to be doing a number on my neck and back.
A number of things.
Shazam it is hot in this attic apartment in which I am quasi-self-employed! Drip drip drip. 93 degrees. I thought it was supposed to cool off today; thus I did not install my pretty ineffective air conditioner that works if I crawl around on the floor.
Feel free to nominate me for longest postings and digressions for that poll someone started.
Anyone want to know about my childhood? My earliest memory?
Anyone concerned that I am bored right now and very hot?
I do work. Really. :bed:
Hum di dum. Hmmmm. Should I then quit all shoulder/weight/scapular stabilization exercises and let my shoulders rest and then swim like the natural fish that I am?
Hum di dum. I do notice that lifting a 5-lb weight to the back while lying on my stomach, and 3-lb weights out to the side, again, while lying on my stomach, seems to be doing a number on my neck and back.
A number of things.
Shazam it is hot in this attic apartment in which I am quasi-self-employed! Drip drip drip. 93 degrees. I thought it was supposed to cool off today; thus I did not install my pretty ineffective air conditioner that works if I crawl around on the floor.
Feel free to nominate me for longest postings and digressions for that poll someone started.
Anyone want to know about my childhood? My earliest memory?
Anyone concerned that I am bored right now and very hot?
I do work. Really. :bed:
