Reply to "Swimming as off season training for pitchers?"

bballman10,000+ posts

Here are some articles I found on swimming and baseball pitchers. The first two are against it, the third is for doing water exercises for pitchers. I think the general consensus is that actually swimming, ie doing freestyle, is not great for the shoulders. Even the article that talks about swimming being a good thing only talks about doing about 2 minutes of actually swimming, the rest of the workout is resistance exercises in the water.

Make your own judgements.

Against:

http://www.ericcressey.com/swimming-for-pitchers

http://www.baseballfit.com/baseball-training-0107.htm

For:
http://www.thecompletepitcher....itching_swimming.htm

9/26/121:17 PM

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