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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  • A few years ago I would have answered weight lifting for sure -- Since my non-triumphant return to swimming, however, I have had shoulder and elbow pains galore. Weight lifting seems to help. So for the past 2 years, I think I have to vote swimming (sorry swimming, you are still my favorite). I do think there should be a option for air-conditioner carrying -- I guess it is dry land-- the worse injury I have had in many years came from trying to install an air conditioner at my parents house.
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  • A few years ago I would have answered weight lifting for sure -- Since my non-triumphant return to swimming, however, I have had shoulder and elbow pains galore. Weight lifting seems to help. So for the past 2 years, I think I have to vote swimming (sorry swimming, you are still my favorite). I do think there should be a option for air-conditioner carrying -- I guess it is dry land-- the worse injury I have had in many years came from trying to install an air conditioner at my parents house.
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