I always tell my cycling friends that if I lay off swimming for a week or two I can get right back in the water with no problems, no muscle soreness, and no ill effects whatsoever. If you don't ride your bike for a week, you WILL have a sore rear end when you start riding again. Well, I just have finished a 3 month lay off from swimming while trying to get my rotator cuff tendinitis to subside, and when I got back in the pool I found out that I have been wrong.
I was so sore the next day that I could hardly get out of bed! Evidently, swimming is so good at keeping the body flexible and limber that even a hiatus of 3 months will undo all of the progress. The good thing is that the soreness goes away fairly quickly and it's no where near what the sore "sit bones" experience on a bike. It's just sore all over.
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I always tell my cycling friends that if I lay off swimming for a week or two I can get right back in the water with no problems, no muscle
soreness,
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and no ill effects whatsoever. If you don't ride your bike for a week,
you
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WILL have a sore rear end when you start riding again. Well, I just have finished a 3 month lay off from swimming while trying to get my rotator
cuff
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tendinitis to subside, and when I got back in the pool I found out that I have been wrong.
I was so sore the next day that I could hardly get out of bed! Evidently, swimming is so good at keeping the body flexible and limber that even a hiatus of 3 months will undo all of the progress. The good thing is that
the
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soreness goes away fairly quickly and it's no where near what the sore
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bones" experience on a bike. It's just sore all over.
Pat in TX
And the older you get the the faster conditioning goes away and the harder it is to come back...thats why I hate layoffs of more than a week
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I always tell my cycling friends that if I lay off swimming for a week or two I can get right back in the water with no problems, no muscle soreness, and no ill effects whatsoever. If you don't ride your bike for a week, you WILL have a sore rear end when you start riding again. Well, I just have finished a 3 month lay off from swimming while trying to get my rotator cuff tendinitis to subside, and when I got back in the pool I found out that I have been wrong.
I was so sore the next day that I could hardly get out of bed! Evidently, swimming is so good at keeping the body flexible and limber that even a hiatus of 3 months will undo all of the progress. The good thing is that the soreness goes away fairly quickly and it's no where near what the sore "sit bones" experience on a bike. It's just sore all over.
Pat in TX
Not to be contrary, but I think it depends on what else you do. I do a long-ish joint health routine almost every day, and I was out of the pool for almost the same time you were, from late June until the second week of September. I felt fine the day after. I agree that, if swimming is all you do and you stop it for 3 months, you'll be sore.
Not to be contrary, but I think it depends on what else you do. I do a long-ish joint health routine almost every day, and I was out of the pool for almost the same time you were, from late June until the second week of September. I felt fine the day after. I agree that, if swimming is all you do and you stop it for 3 months, you'll be sore.
-S-
Well, I ride my bike at least 30 miles every other day, and I went on a 2 week backpacking trip during that time, so it's not as if I wasn't doing anything at all. Those are my three sports. You would be surprised, maybe, at how much cycling works the shoulder area. The doc told me not to stand while going up hills, and I didn't, but still, I could feel the stress from ordinary riding. I usually do some weighlifting, but I couldn't during that time. And, I wasn't sore the next day--it was the day after that. That's the way it hits me--on the second day after something strenuous. However, after I went swimming the second time, I felt fine again.
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when I got back in the pool I found out that I have been wrong.
I was so sore the next day that I could hardly get out of bed!
I could have told you that a couple of years ago. Back then I cycled daily to and from work, but only swam in a rented villa pool a few weeks a year. The first swim of the vacation usually left me puffing for breath after a couple of short lengths and quite sore the next day, but with daily swims I acclimatised quickly. For about the past four years I've swum 2-4 times a week, with occasional breaks for up to a week and a half, and don't get the same aches, apart from the left elbow - don't know whether it's a muscular or joint problem. However, I don't cycle as much now as I used to as I work from home. -- congokid Eating out in London? Read my tips... http://congokid.com
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. And, I wasn't sore the next day--it was the day after that. That's the way it hits me--on the second day after something strenuous. . /snip
Yes, that's the same with me. Anyone have any idea why this happens?
I believe it has to do with the build-up of waste in the muscles. When you are working your muscles daily and drinking lots of water, there is not enough time for waste to build up. But when you slack off, the level of waste goes back to what is normal for a more sedentary person. Then when you once again suddenly put those muscles under aerobic stress, the waste gets in the way and must be broken down and removed. I suppose the delayed soreness is associated with that process.
Nothing new. Marty Liquori called it the "two-day lag effect" in a running book of his I read in 1984.
-- Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, TX
Well? what did he say to do about it to minimize the effects?
Once the damage is done, I suppose there will be repair work underway, and once again that repair work will generate waste. I guess the achy pain then arises from using the muscle with this waste present, clogging up the chemistry, which should mean that aiding the process of eliminating the waste should reduce the pain. Then drinking extra water and, I suppose, massage should be beneficial.
