By Dr. G. John Mullen, Swimming World Contributor
I often discuss shoulder health, in fact many of you are probably sick of me laboring about shoulder injuries and injury prevention. Unfortunately, I feel like I’m not getting my point across, as thousands of swimmers enter our clinic each year with shoulder pain and injury (remember why you shouldn’t shrug off swimmer’s shoulder). This is because teams still aren’t implementing the mandatory components of a swimmers shoulder prevention program!
Recently, a great research study by Matthews (2016) looked at the effects of 8 × 100 m training swims off a 2:00 interval. Target times were prescribed for each swimmer based on 85 percent of their best 100-meter times. This study suggested one set of 8 x 100 m caused the following:
Imagine what happens to the shoulder after a whole practice, a week of winter training, or even a swimming season!
These reasons make systematic strength training and injury prevention programs key for long-term health of the shoulder. Matthews (2016) provided excellent recommendations at the end of their article:
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