Subject: RE: Swimmers shoulder Something that helps a surprising amount is to breath on the alternate side as the side that worsense the shoulder. I get recurrent bad shoulder tendinitis on my breath-right, no matter what I do. I've had my form looked at by high-level coaches, videoed, and all of them agree my pull with breath-right is better with my (bad) right arm than my left. Yet that's the arm that hurts, even though it has the better palm position, better EVF, and results in 7-10sec/100 faster speeds with same HR/effort. However, I'm retraining to breath all-left since for whatever small reason, I get nearly no rt shoulder strain when swimming that way. Might have to do with the arm position on the breath, but whatever it is, it was unfixable even with a coach and experimenting for the entire year last year with it (and getting a lot faster in the process). I'm rebuilding now - am about 7-10sec/slower /100 than I used to be which is frustrating, but finally able to swim without being limited by shoulder pain once I go over 3000yds/workout. |