Where are you supposed to feel sore when you swim more than normal? I've been upping my yardage a bit and if i stand with my palms facing front and raise my straight outstretched arms overhead with my back and arms against the wall, the muscles that run along the sides of the biceps are tight and sore. I think it's the deltoids.
I just don't know if this is normal or if i've got a form problem. I'm an adult-onset swimmer so i'm constantly working in tweeking things.
I recently got a tech-toc to see if lack of rotation was a problem and it doesn't seem to be the issue.
So where are you supposed to get sore if you swim too much?
Thanks
I've been training for a long swim that will happen next week. I did a peak swim about 3 weeks ago, 12500 yards, plus had increased the distance of my everyday swimming. The next morning when I jumped in the water, I had some pain in my right shoulder blade, felt like right at the tip. I had no pain before that; slept fine the night before. Just the movement of swimming again kicked it off.
I had little to no pain doing backstroke, so I just flipped over and did much of the workout backstroke. Breaststroke was minimal pain. I put fins on, and just took things easy. Not just that day, but that whole week. I majorly adjusted my training plan (well it was in my head).
The following Sunday, I did 7200 (a bit of swimming with fins and very minimal paddles), and felt fine. So I did another peak week (with just 11,600 on the big day) the next week, with higher distances during the week, and I was fine (I think about 3200 yards over the week)..
Along with adjusting the swimming, I also did more stretching, icing, and took some Tylenol.
My thought process is...I'm swimming for fun and to keep in shape. Sure I do meets once in a while, and I do o/w swims, but I've long since accepted that I'm never going to the Olympics. If I'm not having fun, then something is wrong. Pain is not fun.
I haven't really figured out why I had the pain. I'm sure some was technique--which is why I did add in Agility paddles after a few days, in small amounts. Those seem to really help my technique.
But I think it was mostly the volume. I had never swum that much before in one session in my life.
I've been training for a long swim that will happen next week. I did a peak swim about 3 weeks ago, 12500 yards, plus had increased the distance of my everyday swimming. The next morning when I jumped in the water, I had some pain in my right shoulder blade, felt like right at the tip. I had no pain before that; slept fine the night before. Just the movement of swimming again kicked it off.
I had little to no pain doing backstroke, so I just flipped over and did much of the workout backstroke. Breaststroke was minimal pain. I put fins on, and just took things easy. Not just that day, but that whole week. I majorly adjusted my training plan (well it was in my head).
The following Sunday, I did 7200 (a bit of swimming with fins and very minimal paddles), and felt fine. So I did another peak week (with just 11,600 on the big day) the next week, with higher distances during the week, and I was fine (I think about 3200 yards over the week)..
Along with adjusting the swimming, I also did more stretching, icing, and took some Tylenol.
My thought process is...I'm swimming for fun and to keep in shape. Sure I do meets once in a while, and I do o/w swims, but I've long since accepted that I'm never going to the Olympics. If I'm not having fun, then something is wrong. Pain is not fun.
I haven't really figured out why I had the pain. I'm sure some was technique--which is why I did add in Agility paddles after a few days, in small amounts. Those seem to really help my technique.
But I think it was mostly the volume. I had never swum that much before in one session in my life.
