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?
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It's hard to believe that all these days have gone by and no one has mentioned the fact that swimming with closed fists takes the load off the shoulders. Thus, consistant warmups and warmdowns with closed fists are usually all one needs to prevent sore shoulders. Good for all strokes, feels strange for a while, slows you down only 10%, and increases your number of strokes per length by the same 10%.
It's hard to believe that all these days have gone by and no one has mentioned the fact that swimming with closed fists takes the load off the shoulders. Thus, consistant warmups and warmdowns with closed fists are usually all one needs to prevent sore shoulders. Good for all strokes, feels strange for a while, slows you down only 10%, and increases your number of strokes per length by the same 10%.
