Hi, I've been swimming about 1km for about a year, one day I decided (I know I did wrong, and I regret it) to swim more, and when I had swam about 1,750 mts my elbow started to hurt, even when I took a shower. The pain disappeared in a couple of days, but when I do some elbow movements my elbow does like a "crack" sound, and hurts a little, but disappears after a while, it's happened in movements like:
.Jumping out of the pool
.Pushing someone
.Lifting weights over my head (for the triceps)
.Doing tecktonik movements (type of dance)
.And many more....
It's been like 10 months since that happened, but for the last 4 months I've taken care of myself, using the hot/cold technique, I've been lifting weights (increasing 250g each week), and increasing swimming distance (I swim 150 crawl, 50 breaststroke, 25-25 -holding a board at my arms, doing crawl and breaststroke kick) I started at 1km, and currently I am swimming 1.5 km, increasing 50 every 3 - 4 times I go swimming.
After I go swimming, my elbow hurts a bit (without movement sometimes) but the pain goes away.
I'd be so thankful if you guys could help me with this because it's been bothering me a lot, and I just wanna be able to do everything.
Thanks in advance.
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Well elbow pain sucks. It does because very often, the stroke isn't that faulty so technical changes may be required but that is just to account for the fact that you need to protect them. It sucks. I know I use to have some.
How fast do you swim? I know myself, I know that if I am exaggerating on the distance per stroke whilst trying to swim EVF whilst putting a lot of pressure (like maintaining a 1:15/100 pace for 400m on 14 stroke per 25m), elbow may hurt. But since I know, I just don't do it anymore.
Now I swim my fast rep on 16 strokes. And I am not trying to achieve optimal and steep EVF (even though I could if I wanted to).
I need to look at some footage. Without them, all I can do is to issue generic statements:
- No fast pull buoy work
- Go back to your safe mileage
- No paddle, never never even if they offer you money to swim with 'em
- Do eliminate any dead spot in the front. Having to reaccelerate on each stroke makes matter worst
- Worst case, try to lock the whole arm whilst pulling. Will feel very strange at first
- In making any change, always monitor stroke count to see the impact of your changes. Stroke count along with time. Even if a new way of swimming feels completely odd and awkward, if you maintain same time at same DPS with same effort you're cool.
Well elbow pain sucks. It does because very often, the stroke isn't that faulty so technical changes may be required but that is just to account for the fact that you need to protect them. It sucks. I know I use to have some.
How fast do you swim? I know myself, I know that if I am exaggerating on the distance per stroke whilst trying to swim EVF whilst putting a lot of pressure (like maintaining a 1:15/100 pace for 400m on 14 stroke per 25m), elbow may hurt. But since I know, I just don't do it anymore.
Now I swim my fast rep on 16 strokes. And I am not trying to achieve optimal and steep EVF (even though I could if I wanted to).
I need to look at some footage. Without them, all I can do is to issue generic statements:
- No fast pull buoy work
- Go back to your safe mileage
- No paddle, never never even if they offer you money to swim with 'em
- Do eliminate any dead spot in the front. Having to reaccelerate on each stroke makes matter worst
- Worst case, try to lock the whole arm whilst pulling. Will feel very strange at first
- In making any change, always monitor stroke count to see the impact of your changes. Stroke count along with time. Even if a new way of swimming feels completely odd and awkward, if you maintain same time at same DPS with same effort you're cool.
