My daughter swims for USS Swim Club in Ohio. SHe has been dealing with a Rhomboid strain in her shoulder for almost a year now. This injury mostly occures when swimming butterfly. However repetitive motions for a prolonged period also seem to irritate the shoulder.
I am looking for advice because the problem seems to stem from Swimming butterfly. Long Course season started and she was doing very well - no shoulder pain until they swam fly in the last practice.
My questions are as follows:
1.) Is there a way that she can train and continue to provide additional strength with butterfly? Or is it best to just not deal with the butterfly until the shoulder is in better condition and closer to full recovery?
2.) What would be the best training method for a swimmer with shoulder injury?
3.) Is more laps always better training? Can she achieve the same benefit or better training by swimming less laps with a specific purpose during practice?
Coaching advice is welcome and appreciated - as I am concerned for her welfare. She has very high goals and I would like to help her achieve her goals without injury.
Thank you!
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Does your daughter do any other excerise? Like push ups sit up chins weights etc. If she does. She will have to look at the type of excerise she does. Also I think she should strenthing excerises. I at one time did the fly , for long distant. I am now 68 yrs. old. And allI have left is freestyle. But my back gruond as far as excerising might be different. these are some of the sports I did when I was younger.Boxing Gymnastics,open water swimming Diving , Baseball, well you get the idea. Iam ingood phyiscail shape. But as far as strokes other than free style, I have none.But you can imagine all the different excerise I had to do to train for all the various sports I did.But the bottom line is if you trainto swim ,thenreally cut down onother excerises that will hamper your goals in swiming .Lots of luck DOM.
Does your daughter do any other excerise? Like push ups sit up chins weights etc. If she does. She will have to look at the type of excerise she does. Also I think she should strenthing excerises. I at one time did the fly , for long distant. I am now 68 yrs. old. And allI have left is freestyle. But my back gruond as far as excerising might be different. these are some of the sports I did when I was younger.Boxing Gymnastics,open water swimming Diving , Baseball, well you get the idea. Iam ingood phyiscail shape. But as far as strokes other than free style, I have none.But you can imagine all the different excerise I had to do to train for all the various sports I did.But the bottom line is if you trainto swim ,thenreally cut down onother excerises that will hamper your goals in swiming .Lots of luck DOM.
