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catwood posted 3 years ago.
Good to hear you shoulder has recovered - swimming shoulders can really be a bear to get rid of!
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BrettD58 posted 3 years ago.
I had a rotator cuff impengment and a bicep tendon tendonitis in my right shoulder.....8 weeks of Physical Therapy and lots of ani-inflamatories
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catwood posted 3 years ago.
ugh - that doesn't sound fun. i've seen a bit since i swam competitively for 9 years... i know people who had to have surgery on both shoulders by the time they were 13! high school coach pushed me through stuff i shouldn't have swam through peaking at 8000 yards per practice, left me burnt out with shoulder damage... (its fine for the 2-3x / week 2-4000 yard practices just no 6x /week 6-7000 yards again)... i feel like i learned a lot just by sitting in the trainers at school for many hours and now i just like to read everything sports science that i can get my hands on...
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BrettD58 posted 3 years ago.
Wow....that is a lot of yardage for tender muscles. My wife swam for 10 years and she has told me about some of those monster yardage weeks and she wasn't even an elite swimmer. Mine is an old baseball injury....I played for 20 years straight and then played softball 4 nights a week in college and the military so it has seen some abuse there. Feels really good now though and I am glad that I didn't have to have surgery!! Thanks for your kind words of encouragement.
Brett
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geochuck posted 3 years ago.
Had freyed tendons both arms during the race season, It happened in my first race of the season. The doctor told me not to push hard in my races, he injected cortizone. I could not lift my arms to drive, I had to lift my arms with my knees to get them on the steering wheel. I did ten races with this problem then finished the season in Egypt a twenty five mile race. An Egyptian doctor who worked with the Egyptian Marathon swimmer Abou Heif worked on my shoulder, injected something into my shoulders, no problems after that.
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MichaelJohn654 posted 3 years ago.
I currently have a laberal tear, bicep tendonitis, and a Buford Complex on my left shoulder. i'm waiting for surgery in the end of June. not looking forward to it at all.
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BrettD58 posted 3 years ago.
Dude, that sucks.....get well soon
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catwood posted 3 years ago.
BrettD58 wrote:
Wow....that is a lot of yardage for tender muscles. My wife swam for 10 years and she has told me about some of those monster yardage weeks and she wasn't even an elite swimmer. Mine is an old baseball injury....I played for 20 years straight and then played softball 4 nights a week in college and the military so it has seen some abuse there. Feels really good now though and I am glad that I didn't have to have surgery!! Thanks for your kind words of encouragement.Brett
Yeah, I was/am not at all an elite swimmer... (1:13.0 for 100 breaststroke was my best event) I would have been faster if we just did quality 4-5000 yard practices... it seems like its pretty common among high school swim coaches just to do way too much yardage and intensity for the amount of sleep and recovery normal high school kids get... it works for the fastest girl on the team, but everyone else doesn't recover enough... my second to last year, i was so overtrained by the end that i didn't do any intensity workouts in cycling season after that except for races and then i had to take the whole summer off anything... i guess my mind was tougher than my body and i don't think i have really had as much top end effort mental toughness since...
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BrettD58 posted 3 years ago.
I didn't realize what "overtraining" really was until last season....I was training for IM USA and by the end of it I tried to give my bike ($3000 retail) away. It just wears on you!! Sometimes I think that reaggrivating my shoulder was a blessing in disguise....it made me thankful to just be able to train again.
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Tmoney posted 3 years ago.
I know what you mean by overtraining. I swam competitively for over 16 years. During a normal week we would put in 21 hours in the water, 5 on the deck and 2 in the weight room. Our coach was a big believer in base yardage. I was in the distance group and our practices averaged between 9000 and 12,000 yards in the morning and 4-6,000 in the evening.
That was nearly ten years ago, I've since learned that the coaching styles have changed to a quality 6500 yd workout with a recovery/technique workout in the evening. I guess that they figured out that they were doing too much when half the team ended up injured by midseason. Those that could endure the workouts and avoid injury went on to become pretty amazing swimmers.
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ryan16 posted 3 years ago.
Sounds good keep it. Good luck to ya
PAIN IS TEMPORARY, PRIDE IS FOREVER!
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't you are right!
I am so happy about my workout this morning that I have to share it with you all. I am returning from a shoulder injury so I haven't been in the pool but 3 times in the past 3 months so today was a big day. It was an easy day that I use for base building during the winter and early season so there wasn't any speedwork or drills involved.
500yd w/u slow (8:37)
500yd pull (8:45)
2x250yd kick with fins
4x300 descending (first was fastest....I petered out on the last two!)
300 cool down
3000yd total
Most importantly my shoulder didn't hurt after the workout!!!
Thanks for reading and have a good day
Brett
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