As a 15 year old high school swimmer, my coach is having me, with our morning and evening practices, to do more of my main stroke, which is breastroke. My goal is by my junior year, to have gone a 59.7 in the 100 yard breastroke, but with four hours a day of working on the stroke, I find that there is a pain where I imagine the joint is between the pelvic bone, and where my leg begins. This happens, I'll sit it out for a few days, and it'll get better, but with a meet coming up in two days, I can't afford to sit it out and wait. Has anyone else had this problem, where you find a groin area pain? Does anyone find a fix for it? (I've gotten some suggestions to try to fix a muscle in the lower back down to the seat area, perhaps I have a knotted muscle?) Thanks for looking at this!
As a 15 year old high school swimmer, my coach is having me, with our morning and evening practices, to do more of my main stroke, which is breastroke. My goal is by my junior year, to have gone a 59.7 in the 100 yard breastroke, but with four hours a day of working on the stroke, I find that there is a pain where I imagine the joint is between the pelvic bone, and where my leg begins. This happens, I'll sit it out for a few days, and it'll get better, but with a meet coming up in two days, I can't afford to sit it out and wait. Has anyone else had this problem, where you find a groin area pain? Does anyone find a fix for it? (I've gotten some suggestions to try to fix a muscle in the lower back down to the seat area, perhaps I have a knotted muscle?) Thanks for looking at this!
I used to have pain in my knee joint after swimming breaststroke. After I added about 400m kick with board to my warm up I never had this problem. Tell you coach about the pain - you need to stop loading your joint unless pain is gone. I think you can swim other strokes during this time.
The bad thing is if your coach wants you to swim more your specific stroke that can mean that some important event is pretty close and pain in the joint is a very bad sign - if you swim other strokes possibly you won't be able to swim 59.7 this time. But ignoring the problem now can make it much worse in future.
As a 15 year old high school swimmer, my coach is having me, with our morning and evening practices, to do more of my main stroke, which is breastroke. My goal is by my junior year, to have gone a 59.7 in the 100 yard breastroke, but with four hours a day of working on the stroke, I find that there is a pain where I imagine the joint is between the pelvic bone, and where my leg begins. This happens, I'll sit it out for a few days, and it'll get better, but with a meet coming up in two days, I can't afford to sit it out and wait. Has anyone else had this problem, where you find a groin area pain? Does anyone find a fix for it? (I've gotten some suggestions to try to fix a muscle in the lower back down to the seat area, perhaps I have a knotted muscle?) Thanks for looking at this!
I used to have pain in my knee joint after swimming breaststroke. After I added about 400m kick with board to my warm up I never had this problem. Tell you coach about the pain - you need to stop loading your joint unless pain is gone. I think you can swim other strokes during this time.
The bad thing is if your coach wants you to swim more your specific stroke that can mean that some important event is pretty close and pain in the joint is a very bad sign - if you swim other strokes possibly you won't be able to swim 59.7 this time. But ignoring the problem now can make it much worse in future.
