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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Not sure I get the point of these dumbbell bashing posts. As with all things, if you don't know how to properly use somthing, leave it alone.
But...
If you want to identify strength differences between arms? Use dumbbells.
If you want to create a blance between right and left side strength. use dumbbells.
If you want to recruit more stabilizer muscles during your lifts? Use dumbbells.
If you want to be able to attack muscle groups from differing angles to create more overall strength? Use dumbbells.
If you don't know how to properly use dumbbells, stick to the machines.
Well put. In my experience in gyms, people (okay, men) seem to put on too much weight too fast with dumb bells. I think its because you can bail-out on them by dropping them to your sides with that "too cool sound." No fear of the bar leads to over-confidence and injury. (IMHO)
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Not sure I get the point of these dumbbell bashing posts. As with all things, if you don't know how to properly use somthing, leave it alone.
But...
If you want to identify strength differences between arms? Use dumbbells.
If you want to create a blance between right and left side strength. use dumbbells.
If you want to recruit more stabilizer muscles during your lifts? Use dumbbells.
If you want to be able to attack muscle groups from differing angles to create more overall strength? Use dumbbells.
If you don't know how to properly use dumbbells, stick to the machines.
Well put. In my experience in gyms, people (okay, men) seem to put on too much weight too fast with dumb bells. I think its because you can bail-out on them by dropping them to your sides with that "too cool sound." No fear of the bar leads to over-confidence and injury. (IMHO)
