Hi all,
I've been swimming regularly since June and have developed an annoying clicking sound in both shoulders. I've started doing some rotator cuff exercises witha theraband daily to try to alleviate this. Anyone else have experience with this?
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There is pain but it doesn't occur with the clicking. Sort of a background pain through the 'deep' part of the shoulders that comes and goes after workouts and varies with their intensity.
I've always had poor shoulder flexibiility and between the swimming and an adult gymnastics class I'm taking I've improved the strength and flexibility in my shoulders a lot. But now there's this clicking sound. I'm still a novice swimmer, just working through Emmet Hine's Fitness Swimming book and doing about 1500 - 1800 yards a workout.
Are overuse injuries pretty common in swimmers shoulders? I'm trying to balance keeping the workouts and improvements coming but not making anything go 'pop' either.
Thanks both of you for replying, I'll give the forearm pushups a try along witht the therabands.
BTW, are you the Terry Laughlin who wrote the TI book? I use that as well. I like the technique based approach it takes. I see what you're saying about not applying pressure till the arm is in a stable position and I'll try to see what I'm doing with that and correct. By taking more time with the catch I think you mean hanging on to the glide, staying long etc as is stressed in TI?
There is pain but it doesn't occur with the clicking. Sort of a background pain through the 'deep' part of the shoulders that comes and goes after workouts and varies with their intensity.
I've always had poor shoulder flexibiility and between the swimming and an adult gymnastics class I'm taking I've improved the strength and flexibility in my shoulders a lot. But now there's this clicking sound. I'm still a novice swimmer, just working through Emmet Hine's Fitness Swimming book and doing about 1500 - 1800 yards a workout.
Are overuse injuries pretty common in swimmers shoulders? I'm trying to balance keeping the workouts and improvements coming but not making anything go 'pop' either.
Thanks both of you for replying, I'll give the forearm pushups a try along witht the therabands.
BTW, are you the Terry Laughlin who wrote the TI book? I use that as well. I like the technique based approach it takes. I see what you're saying about not applying pressure till the arm is in a stable position and I'll try to see what I'm doing with that and correct. By taking more time with the catch I think you mean hanging on to the glide, staying long etc as is stressed in TI?
