I'll start off by saying that I swim every day and this has never happened in the two months since I've started swimming again and it's kinda starting to tick me off. Anyways, I have this workout that I do everyday and when I first started it a couple of weeks ago I could do it all the way through with out any problems. Now when I do it about a quater of the way through my arms start to get really tired and feel like they are pulling through really thick water. I don't understand this. I stretch really good before and after, and usually a least once during my workout, I try and do dryland once a week, I strecth when I watch TV sometimes, and I have a steady kick the whole time so it's not like my arms are doing all the work. But for about the last week then my arms have been sore, both during and after the workouts. I usually just swim through the soreness I stretch when it comes and then make sure I strecth when it comes back. Any ideas about what's going on and how to make it go away:confused: ? Thanx!!!
~Kyra
p.s it's mostly in my biceps and shoulders
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If the problem is that your arms get really tired then stretching is probably not the issue. If you are kicking strongly your legs could be consuming too much of the available oxygen leaving your arms in oxygen debt. Kicking too hard can make your arms tire out. It is also possible that you are overtraining and need to vary your workload to give your muscles a chance to recover. Sprint training one day, long slow distance the next or something along those lines. Doing the same thing every day is not optimal.
I don't think current thinking is not to stretch at all, it is to not do hard, increase-your-flexibility type stretching before swimming. Flexibility is very important and stretching after your workout and at other times of day is a GoodThing(TM).
If the problem is that your arms get really tired then stretching is probably not the issue. If you are kicking strongly your legs could be consuming too much of the available oxygen leaving your arms in oxygen debt. Kicking too hard can make your arms tire out. It is also possible that you are overtraining and need to vary your workload to give your muscles a chance to recover. Sprint training one day, long slow distance the next or something along those lines. Doing the same thing every day is not optimal.
I don't think current thinking is not to stretch at all, it is to not do hard, increase-your-flexibility type stretching before swimming. Flexibility is very important and stretching after your workout and at other times of day is a GoodThing(TM).
