Has anyone else experienced this? I have never in my life (52 yrs.) had any problem with heartburn or acid reflux. But often when I'm doing my swim practices, and pushing hard, I get something like acid reflux - a slight burning in my esophagus. At times it persists throughout the day. I never have a problem on days I don't practice. I've thought of experimenting with calcium pills before workouts, since I know working muscles hard uses a lot of calcium, but I have no basis for thinking that is related.
I'd be interested in any thoughts on its cause, remedies, etc. It's a minor annoyance, but striking for me since I've never had problems of this nature ever before.
Thoughts? Experiences? Solutions?
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Hard to imagine Mark Spitz in his heyday lacked core strength, but who knows? The conventional wisdom not too long ago was that ulcers were caused by stress. Now it's generally accepted that many, if not most, are the result of bacterial infection--though some are probably also caused by NSAIDs. The fact that Dale's GERD disappeared is interesting, and it's possible that core training had something to do with it. Then again, that could just be a spurious correlation, and something else changed during the time off that is the real reason for improvement.
In any event, glad to hear you are doing okay now!
www.reflux1.com/.../48
Hard to imagine Mark Spitz in his heyday lacked core strength, but who knows? The conventional wisdom not too long ago was that ulcers were caused by stress. Now it's generally accepted that many, if not most, are the result of bacterial infection--though some are probably also caused by NSAIDs. The fact that Dale's GERD disappeared is interesting, and it's possible that core training had something to do with it. Then again, that could just be a spurious correlation, and something else changed during the time off that is the real reason for improvement.
In any event, glad to hear you are doing okay now!
