I am trying to increase volume and swim about 15-20K a week. Most of these yards a hard with not alot of drill yardage. I have sore shoulders all the time. Not injured, but sore and very tired. I have to be carefull how I sleep on them and not to put strain on them doing mundane daily activity.
....Is this normal?
No clicking, but the left is a bit more sore than the right. I am leftie and my left shoulder and elbow are bit cooked from throwing a baseball and football.
I stopped lifting upper body over a year ago. Shoulders are too sore to lift and I feel like I can overpower the shoulders if I do weights and really get hurt.
I'll incorporate more zoomers into my workouts. Maybe I'll try to reduce free to 50-60 of total yards.
I've been slow to raise yardage and have been carefull. My goal is a sub minute 100 free for this fall and hopefully closer to a 55 for the spring.
My left shoulder is my problem, and I'm a righty. (Perhaps from all the mega distance freestyle training with right side breathing when younger.)
Stopped lifting at all? Even at moderate weights? A sprinter needs to be strong and lift. Lifting and strengthening the non-RC muscles can help support them and keep you swimming. At least that's what my docs say. I don't do much by way of upper body weights (I prefer core drylands), but I try to do some moderate weights to support the shoulder, i.e., rows, lat pulldowns and presses, hammers, etc. If it hurts too much to do moderate or low weights, that's not good. (I'm not recommending bench press and or heavy overhead weights -- my teammate just tore his RC with that stuff.)
I've had some success with fins and sprinting, although I know my workouts are unconventional by most swimmers' standards. Race pace fin work can be very beneficial, wholly apart from the shoulder saving benefits. Sprinters train differently than others. You don't need mega yardage to get to your spring goal time.
Just a thought -- if you were a baseball/football jock and former runner, you may have a long-festering-but-hidden shoulder issue that is just manifesting itself now as a masters swimmer. I took a long time off from swimming and never thought I had a shoulder problem. When I hopped in the water, whammo, insta-tendonitis. After a year of pain and PT, I finally got an arthrogram and it showed an injury I sustained in youth. Just keep that in the back of your mind. You may have some RC/labrum wear and tear that you didn't previously think was an issue.
No clicking, but the left is a bit more sore than the right. I am leftie and my left shoulder and elbow are bit cooked from throwing a baseball and football.
I stopped lifting upper body over a year ago. Shoulders are too sore to lift and I feel like I can overpower the shoulders if I do weights and really get hurt.
I'll incorporate more zoomers into my workouts. Maybe I'll try to reduce free to 50-60 of total yards.
I've been slow to raise yardage and have been carefull. My goal is a sub minute 100 free for this fall and hopefully closer to a 55 for the spring.
My left shoulder is my problem, and I'm a righty. (Perhaps from all the mega distance freestyle training with right side breathing when younger.)
Stopped lifting at all? Even at moderate weights? A sprinter needs to be strong and lift. Lifting and strengthening the non-RC muscles can help support them and keep you swimming. At least that's what my docs say. I don't do much by way of upper body weights (I prefer core drylands), but I try to do some moderate weights to support the shoulder, i.e., rows, lat pulldowns and presses, hammers, etc. If it hurts too much to do moderate or low weights, that's not good. (I'm not recommending bench press and or heavy overhead weights -- my teammate just tore his RC with that stuff.)
I've had some success with fins and sprinting, although I know my workouts are unconventional by most swimmers' standards. Race pace fin work can be very beneficial, wholly apart from the shoulder saving benefits. Sprinters train differently than others. You don't need mega yardage to get to your spring goal time.
Just a thought -- if you were a baseball/football jock and former runner, you may have a long-festering-but-hidden shoulder issue that is just manifesting itself now as a masters swimmer. I took a long time off from swimming and never thought I had a shoulder problem. When I hopped in the water, whammo, insta-tendonitis. After a year of pain and PT, I finally got an arthrogram and it showed an injury I sustained in youth. Just keep that in the back of your mind. You may have some RC/labrum wear and tear that you didn't previously think was an issue.
