The best prevention and cure for shoulder pain I found as a swimmer is: hanging. Read the book titled: "Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention" by John M Kirsch M.D, an Orthopaedic surgeon. He claims 99% of shoulder injuries can be prevented and cured by hanging. Obviously there are other interventions which help that Brenton outlined in his video. Hanging improves mobility, stretches muscles and increases muscle strength surrounding the shoulder joint.

@LarsRyeJeppesen

Жыл бұрын

It will not help if your issue is weak muscles, and most issues are due to weak rotator cuff muscles. Hanging creates space but temporarily. Do strenghtening directly after hanging

@cal2780

Жыл бұрын

I jammed my shoulder two separate times. I windmilled backwards while falling off a bosu and the second time inline skating a year later. I landed on the palm and thumb fat pads. I've strengthened and used therapy, however, age dictates limitations. I'm 72 and swim 45 minutes - an hour.

Your content is so uncannily tailored to my latest KZread searches that I'm going to have to join your club just to say thanks. But let me also say it anyway: thanks for making my return to swimming so much easier and more rewarding. Stay safe over there in Melbourne.

Great content as ever - pools about to re open in UK so will definitely put this into practise, thank you.

Great video for any type of swimmer, Thank you!!

Awesome content as always

Amazing flexibility tests, and stretch for my lats. Thank you so much I really needed that, as I tend to get a sore lat and neck on one side after a long swim session.

Thanks for your sharing!

Good stuff this, thanks. Did have a good chuckle at Clayton taking his cap off and putting it back on the other way round though.

The best thing I've found so far for my shoulder pain is ab straps. I'll explain: Ab straps are slings that you attach to a chin-up/pull-up bar which allow you to perform pull-ups that isolate your lats-- i.e., your body weight is being supported by shoulder straps so you are not bearing all of your weight through your grip and forearms. But what I'll describe here is not for ab exercises, it's for stretching your shoulders. Point your elbows at the ceiling and hang the ab straps at that height. You should be able to stand on the tips of your toes to place your elbows into the straps. Then stand in place with elbows/shoulders in the straps, pointing your arms in streamline position as you (carefully) lean into the shoulder straps. Slowly lean into the straps, increasing the amount of weight you place against your streamline at the elbow/shoulders. You can imagine the fully extended arms at the top of the catch (e.g., for butterfly) and start to apply the similar (but slow and careful) pressure on the shoulders that you would at the top of your catch. Practice short mini-catches or sculls, feeling the soreness and stiffness of that shoulder joint. Slowly try to get those shoulders into a flexed position where the shoulders are above the ears (as they would be right upon the entry on butterfly, prior to the catch). As you stretch deeper you can feel the connection between the shoulder joints and the center of your back, right before your lats get engaged-- you'll probably feel your back crack and loosen up considerably, along with your shoulders.

@markhooker8520

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a video/pic of this. It sounds really interesting, but I'm sure I cannot visualize it.

@EdOConnor

2 жыл бұрын

@@markhooker8520 I don't know of a video specifically showing this stretch, but here's a basic video showing the use of ab slings so you can get a better idea of what they are. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rKOfyLOAdNy1ito.html What I've described above is a way to use ab slings to perform a deep shoulder stretch. I.e., positioning your body on land (vertically) in perfect streamline position, i.e., head tucked, shoulders cradling your ears/head, arms pointed straight/together, as you would when pushing off the wall of the pool) leaning into the ab slings to gradually support more of your weight. In this stretch you are not hanging off the ground, you're leaning into the slings holding a tight streamline position with your toes touching the ground. As you lean into the slings while maintaining streamline, your core will be progressively stressed, especially the load-bearing area where the slings are-- i.e., the span from your elbows/upper-arm directly through the shoulder joints and musculature through the center of your back.

Thanks v much

very good !

Fell down a stairs drunk when I was younger, dislocated my shoulders, now I tend to get shoulder pain more easily. I feel ya mate.

Opening the pools in Australia is good news! Unfortunately they are closing them again in Germany. It breaks my heart. Back to dry land swimming exercises on the floor in the living room and refining the breathing technique in the bath tub.... But the videos are a tremendous help either way !

Maybe I missed it but how often should you perform these stretches daily??

So is the land warmup just as important before the pool warm up? Land warmup --> Pool Warmup --> drills and sets

@EffortlessSwimming

3 жыл бұрын

Can be particularly if you do have shoulder problems

I haven’t been in the pool for a few months and last night my eyes were red and I slept without moving my body since when I moved my body I felt extreme pain

What the name of the physio at the end? My shoulders keep screwing up and it's doing my head whenever I start swimming again. So disheartened as I love swimming. The one she does with the arms up meant to be 140degrees. Mine are just about 90! How do I get the flex there as she doesn't mention how to, just how to test it.

Geesh! I'm in trouble. I fail at all of these flexibility requirements. No wonder I have shoulder pain when swimming

Hey, so I was curious about something. Sometimes you talk about achieving swimming times, like improving from 1:40 to 1:30/100y. Are these times over a set distance, or is it over time like FTP on the bike?

@goulart1968

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, it is pace over 100m (or yards in strange countries). But it is not like FTP (on the bike). Normally, and more so on slower swimmers, it is a matter of (better) technique and not "power". You can improve A LOT your swimming pace, not the same with you FTP (more related with your natural power base).

@zgoodhauer4512

3 жыл бұрын

@@goulart1968 ok thank you! I was just curious because I feel like a terrible swimmer but can do 100y in like 1:45. I figure I couldn't hold that for say 500 yards, so I didn't know if that number was average time over an extended distance. I appreciate the reply!

I can barely get my arms off the floor in the streamline test. Is that bad?

@StreetZipsSZ

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, everything feels tight. Shoulders, triceps and chest. I would guess isometric Stretching should work. Pushing the hands or fingertips down to the floor?

When you take up swimming to exercise while avoiding injury and then find out you can get swimming injuries.................

@bro7269

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I started training for a triathlon thinking running would be worst part so I just ran and biked thinking swimming would be the easy part. Now I’m sitting here unable to swim because of shoulder problems. I didn’t realize how technique driven swimming really is.

@farojaco

2 жыл бұрын

Lol true, im suffering from the same after 2 months

@michael15797

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been swimming for 5 years and i’ve only got shoulder pain once from breathing to the same side

@EduardoRodrigues-ev7ej

2 жыл бұрын

@@michael15797 i literally got shoulder pain in my second day of swimming class

@Gauravkumar-jm4ve

Жыл бұрын

Happened with m😢😢

4:58 For this test I have no angle. Or in other words 180 angle. I can't lift my elbows higher than the level of my armpits. I'm a violinist, not a swimmer, but casual swimming saved me from repetitive injury on violin after hours and hours of practicing (we tend to practice almost every day of our lives for several hours, so I can imagine we are extremely tight regularly). I sometimes watch videos related to swimming and swimming techniques out of interest and sometimes out of necessity :D If someone here knows of a particular reason why my shoulders are like that (tightness vs. a minor deformity or something) would be grateful if you could let me know. Thanks!

@eliabim

Жыл бұрын

Same here, did you find the reason why?

@irfuel

5 ай бұрын

@@eliabim Same here

@brucejohnston6184

2 ай бұрын

I play the banjo & used to get a sore left shoulder....swimming seems to have fixed it

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