Legs feeling like jelly after taking up swimming?!

Question: Legs feeling like jelly after taking up swimming?

Over the last few weeks I've started up swimming just for general fitness. I do about 20 minutes of breast stroke and all is going well except for afterwards my legs feel so weak, it's even a task to walk down the street afterwards. I'm eating well and taking protein shakes so my diet is reasonable for the exercise I'm doing. My legs are not sore they just feel really fatigued, which is weird because my arms get most of the workout and they are feeling fine.

Is there some kind of stretching I should be doing before or after?
It's really holding me back at the moment I can't even go for a daily run anymore.

Answers:

Not sure what is happening to you, but you might want to tell your parents to schedule a doctors appointment as no one has really found an answer for you. Whatever is happening to you, it sounds like it would freak the heck out of me, and I'm 19. Assuming your a young man there is no normal reason I can think of to cause this except for one thing. That one thing is something that only males can do. If your doing something before getting into the pool to swim, and only males can do, that might be it, otherwise you should have this checked out. No one wants you paralyzed or something if it can be treated before anything happens.

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Legs feeling like jelly after taking up swimming?!

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