Just wondering if anyone has any great ideas of what to do in the pool to rehab my slightly injured hamstring. It's one of those great little injuries that attacked me out of the blue (as in 13.5 miles into a 22 mile training run). I was nervous about going to the pool at first because the motion for pushing off the wall seemed to be when it was hurting. I did the RICE thing, and have been doing the elliptical at the gym without any problems. Now that it only bothers me when I run, I think I can safely get in the pool.
My thought was that some kicking sets on my back might be good, but thought others might have some thoughts. Should I (gasp, please forgive me) do some pool running or treading water?
Thanks.
Just wondering if anyone has any great ideas of what to do in the pool to rehab my slightly injured hamstring. It's one of those great little injuries that attacked me out of the blue (as in 13.5 miles into a 22 mile training run). I was nervous about going to the pool at first because the motion for pushing off the wall seemed to be when it was hurting. I did the RICE thing, and have been doing the elliptical at the gym without any problems. Now that it only bothers me when I run, I think I can safely get in the pool.
My thought was that some kicking sets on my back might be good, but thought others might have some thoughts. Should I (gasp, please forgive me) do some pool running or treading water?
Thanks.
Hamstrings never heal. RICE is about the worst thing you can do for it, just a AMA way of saying they don't know how to heal it. Unless your going to be doing non wet suit tri's (hardly likely in cold rain turning to cold shower Seattle), start your swim workout regime up again and just don't do massive, unneccessary kicking or flip turns with pushoffs for a while. Be one of the 5% of triathletes that have found excessive kicking during a wetsuit legal swim is a complete waste of energy.
Just wondering if anyone has any great ideas of what to do in the pool to rehab my slightly injured hamstring. It's one of those great little injuries that attacked me out of the blue (as in 13.5 miles into a 22 mile training run). I was nervous about going to the pool at first because the motion for pushing off the wall seemed to be when it was hurting. I did the RICE thing, and have been doing the elliptical at the gym without any problems. Now that it only bothers me when I run, I think I can safely get in the pool.
My thought was that some kicking sets on my back might be good, but thought others might have some thoughts. Should I (gasp, please forgive me) do some pool running or treading water?
Thanks.
Hamstrings never heal. RICE is about the worst thing you can do for it, just a AMA way of saying they don't know how to heal it. Unless your going to be doing non wet suit tri's (hardly likely in cold rain turning to cold shower Seattle), start your swim workout regime up again and just don't do massive, unneccessary kicking or flip turns with pushoffs for a while. Be one of the 5% of triathletes that have found excessive kicking during a wetsuit legal swim is a complete waste of energy.
