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  • Do you suffer from swimmer’s shoulder? Is it preventing you from reaching your full potential? Here is a great breakdown about why swimmer’s shoulder happens and how you can prevent this injury while keeping your swimmer’s lifestyle.

    Swimmer’s Shoulder
    It shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out that swimming regularly and competitively can give you a shoulder injury, given that swimming requires hundreds of thousands of arm rotations. This puts a lot of strain on the shoulder muscles and joints. Competitive swimmers quickly discover that the most common injury is the shoulders, and it happens very frequently to all swimmers.

    Preventing Swimmer’s Shoulder
    Fixing an existing swimmer’s shoulder problem and preventing it all starts with the posture. When you’re in or out of the pool, you have to work on improving your posture. The most frequent cause of this injury is poor mechanics in the water and bad posture. When we’re at home, we tend to always be slumped – at our desks, on the couch, in bed, and whenever we’re looking at our phones. This posture translates into swimming as well.

    When you have a bad posture in the water, you’re setting yourself up for a shoulder injury. That’s because you’re limiting the mobility of your limbs, but you’re also generating less power. Knowing this, here are some good tips to follow to improve your posture.

    1. Sleep on your back
    The default sleep position for most people is on the side. The problem with that is that if you’re a swimmer, placing an arm over your head or rolling your shoulders forward puts them out of alignment and makes a sore shoulder much worse. When you sleep, lie on your back to keep pressure off your shoulders and to align your neck and shoulders.

    2. Work on t-spine mobility
    As per Chris Fordham, a swim coach at Write My X and Brit Student, “the thoracic spine is the upper and middle back, and it’s important to get good mobility here or you’ll be hindering your dolphin kick. Focus on exercises that boost the range of motion in your t-spine.”

    3. Focus on scapular stability
    The scaps are the base of your shoulder joint and how it can generate more force and power. The stronger and more stable your scaps, the more power and speed you can get in the water, and the less likely you are to get injured. Add some scap strengthening and stability exercises in your routine.

    4. Rotator cuffs are important
    Internal and external rotator exercises are linked with swimming for decades. Rob Thorpe, a physician at 1Day2Write and Next Coursework, warns that “working on the rotator cuff won’t fix all shoulder problems though. The internal and external rotators aren’t a solution but a prevention tool, and shouldn’t be prioritized over t-spine mobility and scap stability.”

    5. Develop a perfect swimming technique
    You need to maintain a good posture in the water as well as out or you’re still susceptible to injury. Swimming is a resistance exercise, like weight lifting, so you need to focus on technique and form first and foremost. The best way to prevent injury is to have an excellent technique and great mechanics in the water. If you do feel shoulder pain, go see a physician right away and speak to your trainer. You need to find out which exact movement causes pain and why.

    6. Get a good routine
    Swimming takes a lot of time. On top of school, work and social activities, it can be hard to make time for swimming and focus on our health and strengthening. However, spending just a few minutes each day before a workout will go a long way in preventing a chronic or sudden injury. Focus on preparing your body and shoulders specifically to high-performance activity. Make this a part of your routine that’s as critical as getting your goggles and suit.

    The majority of shoulder injuries in swimming are preventable. By spending time thinking about your posture and working on your mechanics in the water, you can set yourself up to be in top physical condition. Be sure to keep your coach and sports doctor up to date on any injury or condition you might have.

    Swimming buff and writer Joel Syder is a contributor for Coursework Help and PhD Kingdom. He writes articles about health, fitness, and his passion of swimming. His dream is to make competitive swimming a more popular sport for young kids. He also writes regularly for Academic Brits.

  • #SeeMyAbility – The National Learn to Swim Framework is an inclusive programme that develops opportunities and provides a progressive pathway for children with a physical, sensory or learning impairment. Scottish Swimming support Learn to Swim Providers across Scotland to ensure inclusion of children with a disability in their mainstream programmes.

    Learn more at https://learntoswim.scot/see-my-ability/

  • Professor Peter Clough, head the Psychology department at Huddersfield University who carried out the research, found that contrary to what some parents believe, “sport involvement does not appear to have any negative implications” on results.

    He told The Daily Telegraph: “Overall, taking part in sport appears to have a lot of positive impact. There is no evidence that people involved in sport get any worse GCSE results.

    “But they are happier, psychologically healthier, less anxious and more resilient and robust. Taking part in sport on a regular basis is not doing them any harm and it is doing them good.”

    Prof Clough’s study found that there is a significant relationship between involvement in sport and mental toughness, as well as a positive association between sport and mental wellbeing.

    “These findings strongly suggest that students revising for their GCSEs or A-levels should not abandon sport,” he said.

    “Balance is important, and sport plays a vital role in preparing them for the pressures of the exam room. It can even help some young people thrive when in stressful situations.”

    Read The Telegraph

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  • This Hofstra University rip current study, which uses virtual reality as its platform to educate beachgoers, is funded by New York Sea Grant.

  • Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is trying to repair his reputation after two suspensions that cost him valuable sponsorship endorsements and hurt his chances of qualifying for what would be his fifth Olympic games in 2020.

    To try to fix the damage, the 35-year-old swimmer signed on to CNBC’s “Back in the Game,” in which former baseball player Alex Rodriguez mentors athletes to help repair their finances and reputations, as he had to do a decade ago following revelations that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

    Lochte accompanied Rodriguez to ACG’s 2019 InterGrowth conference, where Rodriguez was speaking, and sat down with Middle Market Growth for an interview about the show, his swimming career, and how he plans to regain the public’s trust.

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  • French hotel owners assailed Airbnb on Wednesday over its new partnership with the International Olympic Committee, warning they would stop working on the planning for the Paris 2024 summer Games to protest against what they call an unfair competitor.

    French hotels have long accused home rental platform Airbnb of taking advantage of minimal oversight to undercut their business, and have been lobbying authorities for a crackdown on short-term tourist rentals.

    “Airbnb doesn’t play by the rules, and must be disqualified,” the GNI association of independent hotels said in a statement during an industry gathering in the Atlantic coast resort town of Biarritz.

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  • Swimming started as a passion in the lochs of Scotland and now takes Ross Murdoch around the globe. What makes you get Up and Go?

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