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Bubblesong
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News! my Insurance will pay for three months of health club membership to get us started, and our local YMCA has a pool and adult swim times! Joining!
I spent the weekend at hotel pool trying different kicks:
1)Strong flutter kick; does not hurt my hips or knees, good for getting aerobic exercise.
Quad stretches and hamstrings stretches first.
2)Regular frog kick; good power, but after couple minutes really feel pain in both inner hip joint, (arthritis) and inner inside of back of knees tendons, which was not an area I know how to stretch prior to exercising. Any thoughts on stretches?
3)Modified Frog kick; surprised how painless this is, even going for a while, although it takes concentration to learn to keep knees bent and relatively close together, plus not much power or aerobic. So for gentle swim throughs, but not for getting somewhere. But does not hurt hips as I thought it would!
Lower back stretches turned out to be important since these muscles seem to get tensed with knees bent while kicking.
4)Sideswim; really I do a flutter kick but on my side, with pauses to match arm movements, good if I was on surface without snorkel and breathing fresh air instead of tank air. Switching to other sides is wierd because so right handed I am uncoordinated with left hand swimming. Probably with practice I will get it. Side to side stretches critical.
Any other kicks I can try? I plan to do a lot of swimming practice.
I spent the weekend at hotel pool trying different kicks:
1)Strong flutter kick; does not hurt my hips or knees, good for getting aerobic exercise.
Quad stretches and hamstrings stretches first.
2)Regular frog kick; good power, but after couple minutes really feel pain in both inner hip joint, (arthritis) and inner inside of back of knees tendons, which was not an area I know how to stretch prior to exercising. Any thoughts on stretches?
3)Modified Frog kick; surprised how painless this is, even going for a while, although it takes concentration to learn to keep knees bent and relatively close together, plus not much power or aerobic. So for gentle swim throughs, but not for getting somewhere. But does not hurt hips as I thought it would!
Lower back stretches turned out to be important since these muscles seem to get tensed with knees bent while kicking.
4)Sideswim; really I do a flutter kick but on my side, with pauses to match arm movements, good if I was on surface without snorkel and breathing fresh air instead of tank air. Switching to other sides is wierd because so right handed I am uncoordinated with left hand swimming. Probably with practice I will get it. Side to side stretches critical.
Any other kicks I can try? I plan to do a lot of swimming practice.
