I did a 17k pool swim with Gábor at the end of April. It went fine but the next day I developed a head-cold. I doubt they were related as I’ve never been sick after a long pool swim previously and I’ve done quite a few over the past three years, but it was co-incidental,…
I’ve been picking up pain in my left shoulder for the past couple of weeks again, so I’ve just started doing a little Theraband work, good old swimmer’s shoulder. Therabands are just large elastic (latex) bands, categorised according to resistance/strength, which can be used to isolate and work specific muscles. The colour indicates the amount…
Watch the whole video. No certification or courses required. Given the hazards of our sport, I thought it would be worthwhile posting this.
Part of the design of Eilís’ training regime was to enable quicker post-Channel recovery. Given the extra work I had to do during the swim, the six hours extra duration over what I was expecting, I wasn’t sure how long before I felt recovered. Jen was definitely back before me. I was also injured afterwards.…
So, after being home a few days and with continuing pain in my left shoulder and biceps, I took a visit to my GP. He was effusive in his praise, (which was weird, given how the man has looked after me for the past nine months especially). Having talked here before about impingement and rotator…
Most of us suffer occasionally from “muscle knots” in the back, strictly “myofascial trigger points”, maybe caused by digging in the garden or lifting something heavy or turning awkwardly etc. In these cases the muscle contracts and doesn’t release. I got one last night after spending a few hours working at a table with an…
About 10 years I was snowboarding in Switzerland when I took a typical newbie fall on my coccyx. It took a few months to get better. At the time I was doing a lot of running, having “retired” from competitive cycling in the mid-nineties and having looked for a while for something to fill the…
When I started swimming OW long distance, my first long distance swim was Clew Bay, a 12km in the West Of Ireland. (Boat drop onto an island out in the bay, guided swim into Newport Town, through the islands…you’d get lost without a boat guide). A week later I started to have shoulder soreness, especially…
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