Karl Kallio Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I have been slacking off with F1, mostly just doing maintenance level stuff, in order to concentrate on my prep for open water swimming and keep up at work. Now I have tendinitis in one shoulder. As a teenager/athlete I went through this a lot so I'm not exactly surprised. But last year when I did F1 and swimming equally I had no shoulder problems what so ever (that did surprise me). So I'm thinking that there is something in GST that helped prevent shoulder problems. Could it be the handstands and other straight arm pushing that kept all the little muscles around the shoulder blade strong and responsive? or the constant gentle ROM work? There is only two months left before my primary open water event, so apart from my minibreak to lower inflamation I want to keep swimming as the main focus, but if I could identify what part of the gymnastic bodies stuff was helping I would concentrate on that in my dryland time. Does anybody have insight into this? Injury details: did a couple hard sprint sessions last week and noticed the start of irritation near the end of Thursday training, didn't back off immediately (oops) and cooldown didn't feel right. Friday and Saturday did recuperative sessions with a lot of enphasis on kicking and sculling (you move from the elbow instead of the shoulder) plus yoga Sat/Sun to try and ensure that everything else is relaxed and oxygenated. Bit of anti-inflamatories. Monday noon training felt good for the first 85% and at the end I backed off and babied the arm for the last bit so when I went for Monday PM training and felt bad warming up I was disappointed but switched to a jogging session, but the $%&* tendon started throbbing when my HR went up! A friend at the pool is a good physio so he checked me over, and has me on ice/anti-inflamatory today to be able to do a stretch/zap/buzz session tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Hohmann Hohmann Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) In most cases shoulder pain is related to poor posture/ poor shoulder function which is caused my imbalances.Most common one: pushing muscles ( pecs, especially minor and front delts are very strong and tight, while the back muscles and rear delts and rotator cuf musckes are weak.Stretch out your pecs and front delts, do external rotations, band pull-aparts etc for strengthening the rotator cuff muscles + rear delts...Strengthen your back, especially lower traps..Do mobility work, best ive ever found is wall slidesWill help for sure! Edited May 7, 2014 by JonasTrainWill Swearing does not have a place on the GB forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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