Elbow injury?

This morning while swimming I started feelin pain in my elbow. Anyone else ever experience elbow pain? I am always hearing of shoulder problems but have never heard of elbow pains related to swimming. Elbow pain is the only upperbody pain I get when swimming freestyle. In my case, it's just a weakness. The pain occurs as my efficiency improves (yeah I know it sucks...). The only way to get rid of it (in my case), is to be very, very, very progressive in the transition between the catch phase (in which I apply virtually no pressure) and the active pull through phase. I have to wait until my arm is in a position to apply more pressure. The best way to increase the pain would be to extend the hand-gliding-in-the-front phase as much as I can, and start applying huge pressure right away with no transition (no acceleration of the hand). I don't think I can stand 200m swimming like this. I typically swim (moderate to hard pace) at 16-17 strokes per 25m in order to stay healthy (elbow wise). Although, my optimal efficiency is more around 14-15-16 strokes per 25m (14 for the 1th 25m, 15 for a while, 16 when tired). Or course I can train slower at 14-15 with no pain. But I can't push too hard (increasing speed) like this. So as you see, my solution is to unweight the catch-to-pull transition as much as possible, increase stroke rate a bit, lower dps (distance per stroke). Your problem may have a different cause though. It may be technical or something else. But that was my 2cents anyway.

This morning while swimming I started feelin pain in my elbow. Anyone else ever experience elbow pain? I am always hearing of shoulder problems but have never heard of elbow pains related to swimming. Elbow pain is the only upperbody pain I get when swimming freestyle. In my case, it's just a weakness. The pain occurs as my efficiency improves (yeah I know it sucks...). The only way to get rid of it (in my case), is to be very, very, very progressive in the transition between the catch phase (in which I apply virtually no pressure) and the active pull through phase. I have to wait until my arm is in a position to apply more pressure. The best way to increase the pain would be to extend the hand-gliding-in-the-front phase as much as I can, and start applying huge pressure right away with no transition (no acceleration of the hand). I don't think I can stand 200m swimming like this. I typically swim (moderate to hard pace) at 16-17 strokes per 25m in order to stay healthy (elbow wise). Although, my optimal efficiency is more around 14-15-16 strokes per 25m (14 for the 1th 25m, 15 for a while, 16 when tired). Or course I can train slower at 14-15 with no pain. But I can't push too hard (increasing speed) like this. So as you see, my solution is to unweight the catch-to-pull transition as much as possible, increase stroke rate a bit, lower dps (distance per stroke). Your problem may have a different cause though. It may be technical or something else. But that was my 2cents anyway.