In the past few weeks, I've been rowing after swimming, and I feel amazing. I feel more powerful in the water and can feel definite gains in upper body strength. However, I also have a bit more tension in the ligaments behind my knee, and I swim breaststroke (eek!) Does anybody else row? Does it effect your swimming? Any thoughts on how to either strengthen the knees or why I might be having tension?
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I row as well and have found that just in general, it is best to build up all the muscles that feed into/out of your knee so that they are bearing the brunt of the force instead of your knee. Does that make sense? That said, I still have flair ups of pain in my knee on longer row workouts.
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I row as well and have found that just in general, it is best to build up all the muscles that feed into/out of your knee so that they are bearing the brunt of the force instead of your knee. Does that make sense? That said, I still have flair ups of pain in my knee on longer row workouts.