The best prevention and cure for shoulder pain I found as a swimmer is: hanging. Read the book titled: "Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention" by John M Kirsch M.D, an Orthopaedic surgeon. He claims 99% of shoulder injuries can be prevented and cured by hanging. Obviously there are other interventions which help that Brenton outlined in his video. Hanging improves mobility, stretches muscles and increases muscle strength surrounding the shoulder joint.

Your content is so uncannily tailored to my latest KZfaq searches that I'm going to have to join your club just to say thanks. But let me also say it anyway: thanks for making my return to swimming so much easier and more rewarding. Stay safe over there in Melbourne.

Thanks for your sharing!

Great content as ever - pools about to re open in UK so will definitely put this into practise, thank you.

Great video for any type of swimmer, Thank you!!

Awesome content as always

The best thing I've found so far for my shoulder pain is ab straps. I'll explain: Ab straps are slings that you attach to a chin-up/pull-up bar which allow you to perform pull-ups that isolate your lats-- i.e., your body weight is being supported by shoulder straps so you are not bearing all of your weight through your grip and forearms. But what I'll describe here is not for ab exercises, it's for stretching your shoulders. Point your elbows at the ceiling and hang the ab straps at that height. You should be able to stand on the tips of your toes to place your elbows into the straps. Then stand in place with elbows/shoulders in the straps, pointing your arms in streamline position as you (carefully) lean into the shoulder straps. Slowly lean into the straps, increasing the amount of weight you place against your streamline at the elbow/shoulders. You can imagine the fully extended arms at the top of the catch (e.g., for butterfly) and start to apply the similar (but slow and careful) pressure on the shoulders that you would at the top of your catch. Practice short mini-catches or sculls, feeling the soreness and stiffness of that shoulder joint. Slowly try to get those shoulders into a flexed position where the shoulders are above the ears (as they would be right upon the entry on butterfly, prior to the catch). As you stretch deeper you can feel the connection between the shoulder joints and the center of your back, right before your lats get engaged-- you'll probably feel your back crack and loosen up considerably, along with your shoulders.

Amazing flexibility tests, and stretch for my lats. Thank you so much I really needed that, as I tend to get a sore lat and neck on one side after a long swim session.

Good stuff this, thanks. Did have a good chuckle at Clayton taking his cap off and putting it back on the other way round though.

Thanks v much

very good !

Fell down a stairs drunk when I was younger, dislocated my shoulders, now I tend to get shoulder pain more easily. I feel ya mate.

Opening the pools in Australia is good news! Unfortunately they are closing them again in Germany. It breaks my heart. Back to dry land swimming exercises on the floor in the living room and refining the breathing technique in the bath tub.... But the videos are a tremendous help either way !

The first swimer with the fins you show in the video is not rotating right.....that also generates shoulder ingury The rotation of torso is necessary for the elbow up stroke without ingury

Subscribed to your channel. My left shoulder is a mess after 5 min every time I go swimming. How does Claytons elbows go up so high???

Geesh! I'm in trouble. I fail at all of these flexibility requirements. No wonder I have shoulder pain when swimming

I haven’t been in the pool for a few months and last night my eyes were red and I slept without moving my body since when I moved my body I felt extreme pain

Maybe I missed it but how often should you perform these stretches daily??

So is the land warmup just as important before the pool warm up? Land warmup --> Pool Warmup --> drills and sets

Hey, so I was curious about something. Sometimes you talk about achieving swimming times, like improving from 1:40 to 1:30/100y. Are these times over a set distance, or is it over time like FTP on the bike?

I can barely get my arms off the floor in the streamline test. Is that bad?

What the name of the physio at the end? My shoulders keep screwing up and it's doing my head whenever I start swimming again. So disheartened as I love swimming. The one she does with the arms up meant to be 140degrees. Mine are just about 90! How do I get the flex there as she doesn't mention how to, just how to test it.

When you take up swimming to exercise while avoiding injury and then find out you can get swimming injuries.................

4:58 For this test I have no angle. Or in other words 180 angle. I can't lift my elbows higher than the level of my armpits. I'm a violinist, not a swimmer, but casual swimming saved me from repetitive injury on violin after hours and hours of practicing (we tend to practice almost every day of our lives for several hours, so I can imagine we are extremely tight regularly). I sometimes watch videos related to swimming and swimming techniques out of interest and sometimes out of necessity :D If someone here knows of a particular reason why my shoulders are like that (tightness vs. a minor deformity or something) would be grateful if you could let me know. Thanks!

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Our 5am masters do that first K with fins.

Talking head, no substance