For me, it’s the shoulders. I swam fairly hard yesterday and today. By the end of both workouts, my shoulders were so tired I could barely recover my hand over the water.
Granted, I’ve been working on swinging my arm less on recovery, trying to keep my hand closer to the my side and enter straight in. And that seems to work my delts harder than just letting my arm take a more circular path to the water up front.
I hear all this stuff about burning lats, but that never happens to me. Mostly a dull low back ache and burning shoulders.
Yes, my shoulders too. Actually, it’s pronounced when I’m wearing my suit. I’m wondering if the suit is limiting my range of motion, and then it requires me to expend more energy to stretch and reach. In the pool, normally it is the shoulders as well, but I feel like I can go a longer duration and stronger during that time than sans suit. I also feel it in my triceps.
When I am in shape, my lats get tired first… my forearms get sore too.
Right now though it takes about 700 yds for shoulder pain to set in, and that happens and stops me way before fatigue ever could. Back to see the athletic trainer at school tomorrow!
When I am in shape, my lats get tired first… my forearms get sore too.
Right now though it takes about 700 yds for shoulder pain to set in, and that happens and stops me way before fatigue ever could. Back to see the athletic trainer at school tomorrow!
I certainly know what a drag that can be. This problem has been nagging for awhile now, no?
Triceps - you’re the second one to mention that. Interesting, because I never even think about that. Even back when I really worked on finishing my stroke (which multiple coaches then advised against, so I’ve stopped), I didn’t feel any fatigue there.
Today I literally was done – had to rest after a 25y, or my shoulders would just feel like lead! Even 8 hours later sitting here, they feel tired when I lift my arms.
I am no coach, but a fairly decent swimmer, for what it’s worth… IMHO if your shoulders are going first, maybe it’s technique? Before I started working on tech. and getting my glide down, my shoulders would get sore first as well. Now it’s my lats and triceps, as others have said. Only time my shoulders go is when I am doing a really long workout, say over 4K yds.
If my shoulders get tired I know my technique is off, and as soon as I concentrate on relaxing the shoulders, it goes away.
since the beginning of summer. I was told impingement, not sure if that was a correct diagnosis or not.
I swam 1200 yds yesterday and nearly cried when it started to hurt, I was butterflying and it felt so good (aside from the pain part of it). I want my swimming back.
Triceps - you’re the second one to mention that. Interesting, because I never even think about that. Even back when I really worked on finishing my stroke (which multiple coaches then advised against, so I’ve stopped), I didn’t feel any fatigue there.
Today I literally was done – had to rest after a 25y, or my shoulders would just feel like lead! Even 8 hours later sitting here, they feel tired when I lift my arms.
My triceps hurt the most during OW swims and racing, however during pool swimming I barely notice them, I think thats due to the two seconds of rest each 25 from the flip and kickoff.
During pool swimming its more my cardio system that burns more than any single muscle group.
My shoulders don’t hurt at all when I swim (when I’m not injured anyway, when I was recovering from separating my AC joint it would tell me when I had swum too much).
