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!
Once I also did a hard finish during a race and hyperextended an elbow :badday:.
Ooooh, I've done that! On my one and only foray into the 50 free, in a college dual meet. There can be no surer sign that is was an ill-fated attempt; I slunk back to my mid-D events...though I did have an awesome start, smoking those wimpy sprinters off the blocks...
I've also broken my hand on a backstroke finish. And I've had one single bad-shoulder time (I know, lucky me) from using paddles that were too large on a backstroke set (again, college age). Now I only use paddles on freestyle.
Doing pullups and similar exercises aggravates my tendency to have "golf elbow." And I once had terrible tennis elbow that was largely due to weight training, I think. But mostly weight training has also been injury-free for me.
Knock on wood. I'll probably throw out my back next time I swim or do dryland.
Once I also did a hard finish during a race and hyperextended an elbow :badday:.
Ooooh, I've done that! On my one and only foray into the 50 free, in a college dual meet. There can be no surer sign that is was an ill-fated attempt; I slunk back to my mid-D events...though I did have an awesome start, smoking those wimpy sprinters off the blocks...
I've also broken my hand on a backstroke finish. And I've had one single bad-shoulder time (I know, lucky me) from using paddles that were too large on a backstroke set (again, college age). Now I only use paddles on freestyle.
Doing pullups and similar exercises aggravates my tendency to have "golf elbow." And I once had terrible tennis elbow that was largely due to weight training, I think. But mostly weight training has also been injury-free for me.
Knock on wood. I'll probably throw out my back next time I swim or do dryland.
