I am experiencing some mild shoulder pain on the front of my right front shoulder. It hurts if I press on it with some firmness. I feel it when I swim but it's not overwhelming.
I'm laying off the weights in the gym until this feels better. I haven't done anything in the gym since Wednesday last week so I don't think this is recent. I swam on Friday but it didn't start bothering me until late Saturday.
Any suggestions?
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Are you doing much Fly?
I just learned a simple trick from the Stanford guy Richard Quick and his Butterfly video with Shelley Ripple. Phelps doesn't even follow it (according to the poster on that cereal box!). When the hands get thrown out of the water, keep the plane of the hands parallel to the plane of the body. (no thumbs pointing towards the water!) The simple lack of arm twisting takes a lot of strain off the shoulders, and the arm recovery into the water goes a lot faster. It works quite nicely.
Are you doing much Fly?
I just learned a simple trick from the Stanford guy Richard Quick and his Butterfly video with Shelley Ripple. Phelps doesn't even follow it (according to the poster on that cereal box!). When the hands get thrown out of the water, keep the plane of the hands parallel to the plane of the body. (no thumbs pointing towards the water!) The simple lack of arm twisting takes a lot of strain off the shoulders, and the arm recovery into the water goes a lot faster. It works quite nicely.
