Injury prevention and rehab for swimmers
Luke from Taylored Health and Performance has teamed up with blueseventy to share stretches and strengthening exercises you can do anywhere, anytime - and help your swimming performance.
What is a shoulder impingement?
What are Prehab and Rehab exercises ??
5 exercises to stretch your shoulders and help prevent shoulder injuries
Stretching - Free up the chest
FInd a doorway, and make the most of getting those tight spots across the chest muscles stretched and relaxed...ready to fly.
Stretching out your lats with a rollar.
Give your key swim muscles your lats some attention. A foam roller and some bodyweight pressure will release those tight spots and keep them performing at their best.
Shoulder Band Exercise
Distraction (Stretch) the Shoulder and bicep
Distraction - not an excuse to get out of exercise, but a stretch that creates some space for the joint to lubricate and free itself. A simple stretchcord or theraband is all you need.
Stretch and mobilise shoulder joints with a lacrosse ball
Use a firm ball like a lacrosse ball to help trigger and release those tight spots across your back with these simple tips.
What is a shoulder impingement?
The levator scapulae is a skeletal muscle situated at the back and side of the neck. Mobilise and loosen up the scapula and neck area using a stretch band a a few minutes of time
5 exercises to strengthen your shoulders and help prevent shoulder injuries
Strengthen your shoulder stabilisers
Strengthen and activate your scapular and lats - Bar pull down
Activate and strengthen your shoulder stabilisers using a foam roller and a few subtle moves to get sustained results.
Using a gym bar (or some stretch cords) to get the shoulders and lats activated and strengthened.
I,Y,W - Strengthening the Shoulder blades
Focus on the external rotator cuffs
Take yourself on a shoulder journey and move from I to Y to W and reap the strength benefits.
Using an incline bench and some light weights to balance out those swim muscles and the action of the all important rotator cuff
Retract and Protract
Take yourself on a shoulder journey and move from I to Y to W and reap the strength benefits.