This channel aims to help people swim, cycle or run, if they want to just begin in sport or aim to be a competitive athletes.
The main focus is on technique, analysing and critiquing swimmers and runners, so you can discover where you might improve your own form, run and swim better and have less chance of injury.
This has been a fascinating series of videos and I only wish I had seen it before my operation. I had been suffering from hip pain for about a year and finally got to see a specialist. After an X-ray and an MRI, she recommended a cortisone injection. Since this did not work, we moved on to a hyaluronic injection. This didn't work either and by now I was getting desperate so I asked my wife (who is a nurse at a large university hospital) if she could find me another specialist. He suggested trying stem-cell technology. This involves drawing blood, certrifuging it to extract the platelets and then reinjecting these into the hip joint. Sadly, this did not work either so he suggested a total hip replacement. I spoke to several friends who I knew had had the operation and everybody was very positive so I signed up for it. I was scheduled for the operation in early December of 2023. I had all the usual pre-op tests and was operated on from the side using an epidural as anaesthetic. The surgeon said the operation had been a success and that I had not lost much blood during the process. However, I subsequently developed an internal haemorrhage and my haemoglobin levels dropped from 15 to 7 so I had to have a transfusion of two bags of blood and a course of iron tablets. This, coupled with the fact that I was not used to sleeping on my back, kept me in hospital for a week and so my recovery got off to a slow start. However, I was determined to get moving as quickly as possible and by Christmas had progressed from a walker to two crutches. However, my surgeon said that physiotherapy was not necessary and that I would recover just by walking. I saw him again at the end of January 2024 and he suggested that I drop one of the crutches but still said I did not need physio. By then the pain from the operation had subsided but there was stiffness and weakness in the joint and although I could move around with the help of a crutch, I limped badly when I tried to walk without one. This went on for several months until I spoke to a friend who had had a THR and he said physio was fundamental and recommended a good physio who I started to see in June. Needless to say, things have improved dramatically, and whilst I still have some stiffness and weakness in the joint, I can walk, drive and ride a bicycle more or less OK. I can't help feeling the I was given bad advice by the surgeon on the importance of physiotherapy and would be in a much better place now if I had started physio immediately after the operation.
Just had 6th hip surgery,end of june ,still in pain .still using my walker ,dr had to break my femur because it wasn't as loose as he thought ,so its gonna take a ling time to recover I only had 1 successful surgery out of 6 .😢 I suffered 2 blood clots to my lungs that i had when discharged from hospital that i didn't know niether did the hospital,they did a chest xray before leaving hospital said everything looks good,they were wrong .😢😢 A day after discharged i went to a hospital and they fiund the clots ,i am very thankful to be alive .
Fantastic videos - Your one about which muscles are used in swimming is my 'go-to' video. Please keep them coming! It would be great to have one about keeping a flat scapular plane
Thanks so much for suggesting a chest harness and front facing snorkel - to make it easier to get started - otherwise, I would have hated it from the start - but I love it. If you know of any watches to track tethered swimming, I'd be in heaven.
I having left hip replacement August 20 2024 I walking on my head for 54 years I got hit by a car when I was 4 years old I'm 58 having robotic hip surgery I'll be glad to get back with you with the new hip dance join my new hit dance class I will keep you informed on the great success and I love to dance hey Madonna let's go
I feel fatigue in my triceps and feel tired after 50 and unable to swim continuous for long distance. After some rest I continue 50m laps but difficult to continue for longer. I do catch up, zipper, kicking on chest back and sides drills to improve my technique. Can you give your expert opinion on this?
So excited I’ve found you I’m looking like I’m up for a hip replacement and ligament repair, thanks Shelley for your wise words Thank you coach for your speed up drills
float with a sail to get to land would that work ...double barrel float u shaped or how ...and for sport...or flat shaped , sail pole up by neck if lying on it or two poles two sails or hm or one up in front of head , or sail on strings but thats kinda hard and cant go against wind. or floats for sail on string in front of swimmer that hold s it or tied to belt. ji
I had a hip replacement on March 13, after 7 wks, I dislocated twice, 4 days apart. It was horrible!!! My surgeon said he had the ball at the wrong angle so, I then needed a revision which I had May 21st. This has been a horrible experience all the way around. The pain has been brutal and progress, like molasses. They said it would go like this unfortunately. I’ve had a therapist once a week here for 3 weeks. She’s had me doing PT but even though I’m 5-6 weeks post op, my therapy’s more of this two week in progress. The therapist is done now and I’m on my own looking forward to what PT I should continue with and how many reps etc. I’m doing the ones in this video now actually but, I don’t know when to move on exactly?? Depending on my pain level I guess???? Thank you for this video and ANY ADVICE you may have! I really appreciate it!!!!!
How about if I try to put my arm in the water so that it creates a thousand toroidal vortices as though it were a stream tube. What then if I stretch those toroidal vortices laterally creaating first one leading edge vortex and then shear away to another? Would that create that hole in the water?
I think the idea that a revision ( 2nd replacement) of a hip is just a 3 month interruption is misguided. Revisions require longer prosthetics which tend to be less stable long term, so at that stage running is very unlikely as are other sporting activities, so management of a replaced hip to extend its life are important.
Hi Coach. I like lapswimming. I swim 1 km in about 28-30 minutes. Why can’t I get faster? Is it mostly technique that limits me or muscle power that affects more do you think based on your experience?
I'm in week 4 of my right hip replacement is ok, however my left hip needs to be replaced, hurts like hell. Makes it very ery difficult to walk . Back to square one
I've been trying to work on my strokes and I can feel i'm not using the right muscles, and there this is the information I need. Very insightful and this is such an important piece of tips that many MANY other swim tutorials never mention. Working / using the right muscle groups is so so important. Thank you very much. Will watch it every time before I head out for my swim practice.
So awful she had to wait and keep enduring such pain! I’m 4 wks post-op right now and I too was like her. I couldn’t walk out my front door to my car 5 ft away. Ugh. So happy for her now the poor thing.
No bath or pool for 6 weeks post surgery!!! I'm a pool person...swim and exercise daily before surgery, but struggling after 14 days with horrible swelling and bruising in my operative leg. They pain is unbearable.
My mother fell and broke her hip around ed Halloween. The surgeon came and told me that everything went well. He also told me that she would die within six months! She died in mid-January!!! She never walked again!!
I had a total hip replacement nearly 3 weeks ago now and through the posterior process. I think I must be a different healing process ( deep muscle cuts 6/7 layers of stitching is what I was told) so, I was much less mobile than this lady but am slowly getting there 😊 I was also lucky that my GP, physio and surgeon all understood that the amount of pain I was in and my very limited mobility indicated that there was more damage than the X-ray and MRI indicated. Turns out I also had total cartiledge wear on top of the femur, not visible until discovered during surgery
Any advice re elliptical workouts as a safe alternative to running - or just less impact but still likely to wear out joint in long term? I am life long runner and tennis player- got a sudden right hip labrum tear at age 63 while playing tennis and repair surgery likely not a successful option for me. Thinking a THR may be in future but want to remain active, want to return to running at least couple miles daily. Elliptical not the same but wondering if investment in a elliptical machine might be worthy.
The end tip seems to be contradictory when you said with more undulation the more distance per length but also the flatter you are the more distance because the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Can you please elaborate?
My operation has been pending since 2018. I have no doubt that it is torn up like this one. When I had an updated xray in 2020, it looked like a bomb went off in my joint.
OMG, you poor thing. Why is it pending for so long? Didn't your doctor tell you that the longer it takes the more difficult the operation will be? I will be having the anterior approach (which is supposed to be better than posterior) hip replacement in April. I have Bursitis and osteoarthritis in my right hip. I've literally been dependent on Diclofenac, the worst medication and Tylenol Arthritis pain relievers but still get pain. Part of my socket has deteriorated and I'm bone on bone. Sometimes I can't sleep at night or could barely walk due to so much pain. This started since I think in 2016 but was exacerbated when I went to Six Flags, all that walking and left limping back in 2022. I was told that since I'm bone on bone it's better to not wait. Be careful because you don't want to be wheelchair bound if you do not get the surgery sooner but I hope that does not happen to you at all. I wish you the best of luck and hope you finally get your surgery.
@@dianas.4091 thanks. I have a wound that wont heal on my toes due to neuropathy caused by a spinal cord injury. They will not operate when an open wound exists.
