INCREASE EFFICIENCY! REDUCE DRAG! INCREASE SPEED!
Physiotherapist Darren Wigg explains how to use Swimming Specific Pilates (SSP) to swim more efficiently and reduce injury
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.