I have not been able to come close to the amount of swimming I was doing by this time last year. I am barely doing a third as much.
That said, progress is still being made. My kick has improved yet again.
I want to go into full details, but am too drained to focus well enough to do it.
The rough outline: I am generating the kick from much higher up my legs. When I find a certain groove, it is almost as if I am no longer kicking, no longer using force against the water. It is much more like both my legs oscillate opposite each other and are snaking their way through the water.
I literally speed up using much less force.
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In just a few days of this, I have had to deal with significant lower abdomen posture changes, which in turn change everything above it.
My chest is a mess. It is possible the shoulder issues are of such a range as to cascade far around the chest.
As always, the right and left sides are inversions of each other, making adjustments tricky. When I manage to move correctly, things slide into place almost seamlessly. When not, it's unpleasant, with resulting discomfort and issues galore.
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Most disconcerting is the difficulty in swallowing I have had these past weeks. Near every swallow is a chore, often not successful.
I have even failed to swallow a swig of water on more than one occasion.
When the chest/shoulder contortions are severe, the neck sometimes buckles, sometimes unbuckles (when I did not know it was buckled in the first place!), making swallowing impossible for a term, or alternatively, making me capable of swallowing anything with ease.
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I am unstable on every front, physical and mental.
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