I swim relatively straight (I always stay one side of the lane, even if no one else is the lane). In fact maybe too straight. My masters coach used to say I'm "swimming on a board." I use bialateral breathing and do not thrash my noggin, but I suffer from chronic upper neck pains. I know the pain is caused by swimming because when I stopped swimming last year the pain went away.
I'm assuming my problems are because of the way I'm rotating my neck. Is it possible I'm not bringing my neck back far enough?Too far back?
Any suggestions?
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Gang,
This a.m. I discovered that my neck is attached to the rest of my body and that if I relax my neck, and spend a little less effort craning it to see the + at the other end of the pool (thanks bckstrker), that I get more rotation. This transformation will take some time, but I did notice I wasn't lifting my head separately to breathe (like scansy described). I treated my neck, head and torso as one unit. As for the soreness--give me a few days to determine if it goes away. It's still lingering from prior swims.
Thanks. I'll keep you posted.
Gang,
This a.m. I discovered that my neck is attached to the rest of my body and that if I relax my neck, and spend a little less effort craning it to see the + at the other end of the pool (thanks bckstrker), that I get more rotation. This transformation will take some time, but I did notice I wasn't lifting my head separately to breathe (like scansy described). I treated my neck, head and torso as one unit. As for the soreness--give me a few days to determine if it goes away. It's still lingering from prior swims.
Thanks. I'll keep you posted.
