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 have to say strength training. I torn tendon in my shoulder joint,then left it injuried for about 6 months. Totally trashing my shoulder joint,now I am careful with everything so I can save my shoulder to swim. My orthopedic surgeon blames swimming for increasing the disease in my joint,but the smell of chlorine and the feel of the water when you jump in , keep me swimming.
I have to say strength training. I torn tendon in my shoulder joint,then left it injuried for about 6 months. Totally trashing my shoulder joint,now I am careful with everything so I can save my shoulder to swim. My orthopedic surgeon blames swimming for increasing the disease in my joint,but the smell of chlorine and the feel of the water when you jump in , keep me swimming.
