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?
The following article might help you:
www.active.com/story.cfm
It's really consistent with what some of the others have posted.
Interesting article. It does raise the issue of possibly the muscles supporting your shoulders are sore and not the shoulder joint itself? My ART doc says that people often ignore or fail to treat muscular issues. If the muscles are sore and tight, they can pull on the tendons and make the shoulders sore. So keep your muscles loose and strong with drylands or whatever. I usually go to ART every few weeks to handle this and try to do drylands. I am certain massage therapy would help too. I wish I had more time to do it. Much less time on the table with ART though and better for eliminating impingment issues.
Katie: Training just makes you tired and sore. I'm feeling like I have to drag myself to the gym this morning. So it's no surprise. Just be careful that soreness doesn't create injury. My legs are always tired, but I really overload them with fins, MF and running. They'll survive. They enjoy tapering when I cut out all cross training and limit use of overload toys.
The following article might help you:
www.active.com/story.cfm
It's really consistent with what some of the others have posted.
Interesting article. It does raise the issue of possibly the muscles supporting your shoulders are sore and not the shoulder joint itself? My ART doc says that people often ignore or fail to treat muscular issues. If the muscles are sore and tight, they can pull on the tendons and make the shoulders sore. So keep your muscles loose and strong with drylands or whatever. I usually go to ART every few weeks to handle this and try to do drylands. I am certain massage therapy would help too. I wish I had more time to do it. Much less time on the table with ART though and better for eliminating impingment issues.
Katie: Training just makes you tired and sore. I'm feeling like I have to drag myself to the gym this morning. So it's no surprise. Just be careful that soreness doesn't create injury. My legs are always tired, but I really overload them with fins, MF and running. They'll survive. They enjoy tapering when I cut out all cross training and limit use of overload toys.
