Injury Poll: Swimming vs. Weight Lifting

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!
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  • Hum di dum again. Wonderful to see you back! An Isobellian hum di dum is worth a thousand logorheac Thorntonian digressions. With regards to air conditioning, I am pretty sure it's a bit like pain medication. Best to start when the pain is still manageable, otherwise it can get away from you, and all the oxycontin in the world will have a hard time settling things down. I say, the next time your garret reaches 91 degrees, turn on the AC. Waiting till 93, though admirable, is too late.
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