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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  • If this were a presidential election, I think we would all be forced to agree: swimming enjoys an overwhelming relative safety record compared to that disastrous activity, weight/dryland training, which would be an abject laughing stock were it not so potentially dangerous. One might dare say that dumb bells are the Sarah Palin of exercise--attractive to some in a weird way, but ultimately a horrible, horrible mistake to get involved with. Finally, we forumites have managed to identify a subject with absolutely no controversy! And they said it could not be done! Ha! I retort. Ha! Ha! Which, alas, probably means that this will be the last posting on my poll, everything that can possibly be said on the topic having now been said!
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  • If this were a presidential election, I think we would all be forced to agree: swimming enjoys an overwhelming relative safety record compared to that disastrous activity, weight/dryland training, which would be an abject laughing stock were it not so potentially dangerous. One might dare say that dumb bells are the Sarah Palin of exercise--attractive to some in a weird way, but ultimately a horrible, horrible mistake to get involved with. Finally, we forumites have managed to identify a subject with absolutely no controversy! And they said it could not be done! Ha! I retort. Ha! Ha! Which, alas, probably means that this will be the last posting on my poll, everything that can possibly be said on the topic having now been said!
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