Hi all, I apologize if this question has been asked time and time before - I did some searching and couldn't locate a thread similar to my own.
I've just started swimming the breat stroke for 30-45 minutes 4-5 days a week for exercise. I've been doing this for 4 weeks now. Just yesterday as I was swimming I noted a sharp pain intermittently during kicks, but I ignored it. When I was stretching prior to swimming, I did notice pain in my hip joints when I was stretching my groin.
I wake up today and both of my hip joints feel pretty torn up. There's really no pain while walking normally, but if I pivot my leg to the side there is a clear pain in both of my hip joints. Is this caused by common fatigue/usage of my hip joints? Or could this be due to poor form? I am 25 years old and in pretty good shape.
Any advice, suggestions, or insight would be greatly appreciated.
Without some good quality video, it would be hard to see if there are any technique issues. Might be easier to look at video of other's doing it (e.g. Kosuke Kitajima 200m Breaststroke Under Water Camera - YouTube) and consider whether you are doing something similar or not. Here's a video from goswim.tv about *** stroker's knee: www.goswim.tv/.../breaststroke---kick-variation.html. Might be something to try out.
Sharp pains are usually bad things. I'd definitely not "ignore it" and seriously consider seeing a doctor about it. Could be a technique problem but it could also be something a lot worse. Or, you might have injured something and need to rest a bit so it can heal. Only a doctor is going to be able to properly diagnose something like that.
Without some good quality video, it would be hard to see if there are any technique issues. Might be easier to look at video of other's doing it (e.g. Kosuke Kitajima 200m Breaststroke Under Water Camera - YouTube) and consider whether you are doing something similar or not. Here's a video from goswim.tv about *** stroker's knee: www.goswim.tv/.../breaststroke---kick-variation.html. Might be something to try out.
Sharp pains are usually bad things. I'd definitely not "ignore it" and seriously consider seeing a doctor about it. Could be a technique problem but it could also be something a lot worse. Or, you might have injured something and need to rest a bit so it can heal. Only a doctor is going to be able to properly diagnose something like that.
