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!
I managed to get nine stitches hitting my heel on the wall about two years ago. The nice thing about Masters swimming is that we had three doctors in the pool, one of whom was a podiatrist who bandaged me up and sent me on my way to the emergency room.
Despite this, I did vote for weight training causing more injuries per unit time than swimming simply because I swim more. But I've found that a combination of weights, swimming and other activities (like Yoga or biking) mixes things up enough to avoid most injuries. As an aging athlete, if I hit one muscle group too much and don't allow any recovery time, I'm much more likely to hurt myself.
I managed to get nine stitches hitting my heel on the wall about two years ago. The nice thing about Masters swimming is that we had three doctors in the pool, one of whom was a podiatrist who bandaged me up and sent me on my way to the emergency room.
Despite this, I did vote for weight training causing more injuries per unit time than swimming simply because I swim more. But I've found that a combination of weights, swimming and other activities (like Yoga or biking) mixes things up enough to avoid most injuries. As an aging athlete, if I hit one muscle group too much and don't allow any recovery time, I'm much more likely to hurt myself.
