Hi
i have recently started learning swimming. im 27 and never got the opportunity to learn swimming. Any ways my trainer started with the breaststroke. ive attended the course for about 8 days now for about an hour each day.
i have recently started having groin pain during the stroke kick and after a couple of days the pain is away. it starts again when i try to practice the kick (only the kick without the arm movement)
i wanted to ask if it is normal, or does it occur only if i do the kick wrong. my trainer says i am doing the kick ok. well a little more than ok actually. i feel the same too. but for this pain.
any ideas?
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First, I am a breaststroker and train mostly for it. In a typical week I put in around 25K yards in about 10 hours of training over 6 practice sessions.
In my most recent week, 11K of that 25K yardage (45%) was some sort of breaststroke, either swimming, drilling, pulling or kicking. Of that 11K, only 2,600 yards for the week was kicking - about 52 minutes for the WEEK.
The only time I have groin issues is early in the season as I'm ramping up training. And it's not the training that gets me. It's going all out in meet races that will cause my groin to get strained a little, so that I have to back off a day or two.
I recommend that you diversify both your breaststroke training (something other than kicking), as well as mixing in other strokes.
First, I am a breaststroker and train mostly for it. In a typical week I put in around 25K yards in about 10 hours of training over 6 practice sessions.
In my most recent week, 11K of that 25K yardage (45%) was some sort of breaststroke, either swimming, drilling, pulling or kicking. Of that 11K, only 2,600 yards for the week was kicking - about 52 minutes for the WEEK.
The only time I have groin issues is early in the season as I'm ramping up training. And it's not the training that gets me. It's going all out in meet races that will cause my groin to get strained a little, so that I have to back off a day or two.
I recommend that you diversify both your breaststroke training (something other than kicking), as well as mixing in other strokes.
