Hi,
Sorry if this has been discussed already in other threads:
My coach has been having me incorporate flip turns more and more into my workouts (I just learned how to do them a few months ago). The last couple of weeks were pretty intense in that I did flip turns for all long distance swims.
I am now noticing my knees are really bothering me and it's difficult to walk up and down stairs. So I stopped doing the flip turns so much and my knees are feeling better.
Question: have you experienced this same issue? If so, any suggestions for my flip turn form to prevent overtaxing of the knees? Also: do you know of any exercises I can do outside of the pool to strengthen the muscles around my knees so I can go back to doing flip turns all the time?
Thanks in advance for your input ...
Thanks, aquaFeisty/Carrie, for the great list of exercises. I have done a lot of these types of exercises previously during workouts (but am not religious about doing them, so now I suffer). So I will need to get myself back into a routine of doing several of them during the week.
On a side note: I find I am sometimes falling into the 'cult' of swimming, meaning I give up a lot of my workout time to swimming, versus a more balanced schedule (ex: spinning class followed by weight training and stretching, etc. on non-swim days) It's like swimming is a 'fix' I need to have to keep improving and not losing ground, so I make excuses to go almost every day. So: how do you balance it?
Sad to say I don't think we are ones to ask about balance,that would be something like "balancedlife.org" if it exists.As swimmers we are a single minded lot,and with good reason as swimming is the perfect sport IMHO and the purpose of lifting weights etc.is to swim faster.
Thanks, aquaFeisty/Carrie, for the great list of exercises. I have done a lot of these types of exercises previously during workouts (but am not religious about doing them, so now I suffer). So I will need to get myself back into a routine of doing several of them during the week.
On a side note: I find I am sometimes falling into the 'cult' of swimming, meaning I give up a lot of my workout time to swimming, versus a more balanced schedule (ex: spinning class followed by weight training and stretching, etc. on non-swim days) It's like swimming is a 'fix' I need to have to keep improving and not losing ground, so I make excuses to go almost every day. So: how do you balance it?
Sad to say I don't think we are ones to ask about balance,that would be something like "balancedlife.org" if it exists.As swimmers we are a single minded lot,and with good reason as swimming is the perfect sport IMHO and the purpose of lifting weights etc.is to swim faster.
