After the surgery I stopped teaching swimming lessons. At first it was because I physically couldn't do it, and then it was because I got used to not having a second job. But starting in the new year, I went back to the pool.
Teaching lessons has been rough on my hip muscles. I think it's all the squatting I'm doing when I teach in the shallow pool. Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to bend the hip more than 90 degrees....oops. But when the water's only two feet deep, and you have to be down at the level of a three-year-old, I either squat or sit on my butt.
After a long week, I can feel pain around the front of my hip. My husband thinks it's my IT band, which it very well could be. A lot of stuff was messed up in that whole area before, and I'm sure this new activity is dragging up old stressors.
I don't think it's bad enough to stop teaching. I'm sure my body will get used to it again. But it's odd to go for months without even worrying about the hip, then be smacked with pain that I haven't experienced in half a year. Apparently my PT didn't prep me 100%.
Teaching lessons has been rough on my hip muscles. I think it's all the squatting I'm doing when I teach in the shallow pool. Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to bend the hip more than 90 degrees....oops. But when the water's only two feet deep, and you have to be down at the level of a three-year-old, I either squat or sit on my butt.
After a long week, I can feel pain around the front of my hip. My husband thinks it's my IT band, which it very well could be. A lot of stuff was messed up in that whole area before, and I'm sure this new activity is dragging up old stressors.
I don't think it's bad enough to stop teaching. I'm sure my body will get used to it again. But it's odd to go for months without even worrying about the hip, then be smacked with pain that I haven't experienced in half a year. Apparently my PT didn't prep me 100%.
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