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Not sure if this helps, but it may be possible that you're doing them too far "up". I've had shoulder pain when bench pressing and doing pushups before, and that's what I noticed that I was doing.
Its kind of hard to explain, but I mostly noticed it when I found myself getting tired with my main/mid chest, and would start trying to "cheat" with my shoulders, making the bar go closer to the top of my shoulders. While you're not holding a bar while doing a pushup, I've noticed myself doing the same thing, and have to keep forcing myself to move the "invisible bar" farther down my chest, which has helped my shoulders a lot. This "may" be what your doing, but then again it "may" not.
But man, you're killing it on the swimming Granite.
This makes sense.....I'm not sure if my technique is any good, so I'm going to do a little more research and see what I might be able to change. Part of it is also that swimming is SO totally upper body exercise for me that sit-ups might make more sense than doing more upper body work with push-ups.
Thanks for the compliment....but I gotta tell ya, after a lifetime of competitive swimming, it feels more like the swimming is killing me. 2000m? That used to be a warmup.....almost. I'd like to get back into reasonable shape in the pool, though I know I'll never be as fast (or as fit) as I was 35 years ago. Nice thing about swimming, though, is it's a sport you can keep doing for your whole life. My grandpa went to the YMCA every other day well into his early eighties. Sadly, the swimming finally succumbed to the emphysema he had from smoking 4 packs of cigarettes a day, until he died at the age of 86. I wonder how long he might have lived if he hadn't ever smoked.....but I'm pretty sure swimming kept him alive a lot longer than he had reason to expect with that kind of smoking habit. Looks like my dad got his genes minus the smoking habit. Pop is 83, wears the same pant size he did in high school and still going to the YMCA a couple days a week. I'm hoping those are the strands of DNA that I got.
finished up with some abs and arms.
the needle is about 2 inches long. It gets inserted between the patella and the femur while the knee is bent. Then the injection kinds blows up the joint like a balloon. Makes moving uncomfortable for a few days.