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. )
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I've never had a weight lifting related injury, but I've had plenty of swimming injuries. Mostly limited to muscle pulls or on rare occasion strains, and both usually are from "oversprinting". Kindof like throwing your shoulder out. Once I also did a hard finish during a race and hyperextended an elbow :badday:. I never had an injury or muscle pull of any kind from weight lifting, only muscle soreness, which is to be expected.
I've never had a weight lifting related injury, but I've had plenty of swimming injuries. Mostly limited to muscle pulls or on rare occasion strains, and both usually are from "oversprinting". Kindof like throwing your shoulder out. Once I also did a hard finish during a race and hyperextended an elbow :badday:. I never had an injury or muscle pull of any kind from weight lifting, only muscle soreness, which is to be expected.
