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!
Given your self-reports of injury, this statement is baffling to me. I question whether a competent physical therapist who is knowledgeable about sports-related shoulder injuries would be having you do these movements at all, let alone with these amounts of weight.
I do a "T" exercise while lying face-down, lifting my arms toward the back while in external rotation, but I use only the weight of my arms for resistance. 3 extra pounds on each side would kill me. And I cannot imagine any reason I would ever try to lift a 5-pound weight up and over my head and backwards while lying on my front. It hurts just to think about it.
I wondered about this myself. I had always been told to do isometrics out to the side and to the front, not weights. But I went to this PT and this is what she told me to do, and so I did it. I've gotten stronger but it is doing a number on my back and neck.
As for the 5 pounds, I don't lift them up and over my head; I hold them with my arms straight back toward my feet, palms down, and lift them slightly off the floor, holding for 6 seconds, releasing, doing this 10 times (what you say you are doing I think isometrically).
Hum di dum again. I think I will ditch these weight exercises and just do them isometrically. Thanks for the feedback.
Digression: It is hard to find a PT who will take my insurance. That is the new reality with "health care for all" in Massachusetts. It is also hard to find specialists. All the ones who were recommended to me by my teammates would not take my insurance. But this is for another thread, that has already been posted, by Mr. Thornton. Self-employment has its drawbacks.
Given your self-reports of injury, this statement is baffling to me. I question whether a competent physical therapist who is knowledgeable about sports-related shoulder injuries would be having you do these movements at all, let alone with these amounts of weight.
I do a "T" exercise while lying face-down, lifting my arms toward the back while in external rotation, but I use only the weight of my arms for resistance. 3 extra pounds on each side would kill me. And I cannot imagine any reason I would ever try to lift a 5-pound weight up and over my head and backwards while lying on my front. It hurts just to think about it.
I wondered about this myself. I had always been told to do isometrics out to the side and to the front, not weights. But I went to this PT and this is what she told me to do, and so I did it. I've gotten stronger but it is doing a number on my back and neck.
As for the 5 pounds, I don't lift them up and over my head; I hold them with my arms straight back toward my feet, palms down, and lift them slightly off the floor, holding for 6 seconds, releasing, doing this 10 times (what you say you are doing I think isometrically).
Hum di dum again. I think I will ditch these weight exercises and just do them isometrically. Thanks for the feedback.
Digression: It is hard to find a PT who will take my insurance. That is the new reality with "health care for all" in Massachusetts. It is also hard to find specialists. All the ones who were recommended to me by my teammates would not take my insurance. But this is for another thread, that has already been posted, by Mr. Thornton. Self-employment has its drawbacks.
