Background - My shoulders seem to get worse when I either up the yardage too fast or if I swim too many consecutive days. My current swim schedule is Monday, Tuesday (stroke work with a coach), Thursday, and Saturday. This past week I have had no pain.
Last night, the coach decided to work on evilstroke, as fortress would say. Its by far my worst stroke, and in need of lots of work. Right now I am planing on working with the coach again on Thursday. However, the idea of two entire days of evil stroke is killing me, and I am tempted to go swim tonight. Am I asking for trouble by swimming four consecutive days? Monday was a normal workout, Tuesday was evilstroke, tonight will be a regular workout, and Thursday will be evilstroke.
Any opinions?
Background - My shoulders seem to get worse when I either up the yardage too fast or if I swim too many consecutive days. My current swim schedule is Monday, Tuesday (stroke work with a coach), Thursday, and Saturday. This past week I have had no pain.
Any opinions?
My shoulders hurt if I do that too. If you're going to swim consecutive days, try not to go super hard both days. Ramping up fast is a receipe for disaster. I know it's really hard, but try to be patient and increase yardage slowly. And how many yards are you doing per workout? If I swim 4000 (almost never), I have to take the next day off or swim easy.
If you want to swim, you can. Just make sure not to go too hard or do too much yardage if you're scheduled for a real workout tomorrow. Plenty of other stuff to work on today if you're doing evilstroke tomorrow.
You're not doing the whole workout evilstroke, are you? I can see focusing on it, but I presume you're doing other strokes too? One stroke for the entire workout isn't usually the best idea.
Background - My shoulders seem to get worse when I either up the yardage too fast or if I swim too many consecutive days. My current swim schedule is Monday, Tuesday (stroke work with a coach), Thursday, and Saturday. This past week I have had no pain.
Any opinions?
My shoulders hurt if I do that too. If you're going to swim consecutive days, try not to go super hard both days. Ramping up fast is a receipe for disaster. I know it's really hard, but try to be patient and increase yardage slowly. And how many yards are you doing per workout? If I swim 4000 (almost never), I have to take the next day off or swim easy.
If you want to swim, you can. Just make sure not to go too hard or do too much yardage if you're scheduled for a real workout tomorrow. Plenty of other stuff to work on today if you're doing evilstroke tomorrow.
You're not doing the whole workout evilstroke, are you? I can see focusing on it, but I presume you're doing other strokes too? One stroke for the entire workout isn't usually the best idea.
