As an ex-international swimmer and current sports physiotherapist of 15 years, I have spent thousands of hours trying to understand how and why swimmers become injured. It’s a little different to most sports as there is no contact and no ground reaction force to deal with so we rarely see traumatic injuries. Swimmers injuries tend to creep up on them gradually. It is my belief that the most common primary cause of swimming injury is also the most common cause of impaired performance and that cause is inefficiency of stroke.
Essentially, every time we apply force to the water as a swimmer, it should be with the sole purpose of moving us forward in a straight line and never sideways! If we apply our force in the wrong direction, inevitably, we compensate for that, to maintain our forward movement. Every compensation increases our drag, wastes our energy and slows us down. It also increases our injury risk by creating unnecessary overload.
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