Is it a good idea to swim if you are a pitcher. Not competetive swimming, just casual swimming with friends. Would swimming the day after you pitch cause harm?
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My physical therapist who use to work for the Texas Rangers told me swimmers tend to have very loose shoulders-loose ligaments and such. That is not a good thing. Of course this is competitive swimming, but I asked if casual swimming would help when I had a shoulder injury and he said no, it'd hurt it.
quote:Originally posted by Doc_Halladay23:
Is it a good idea to swim if you are a pitcher. Not competetive swimming, just casual swimming with friends. Would swimming the day after you pitch cause harm?
Casual swimming isn't a big deal.
Even competitive swimming is generally OK, as long as it's not the butterfly or backstroke (and in some cases freestyle).
Swimming was part of the winter condition program at my son's previous college (pitchers, too).
I certainly wouldn't make it a part of a conditioning program, but there is no harm in casual swimming, or as painguy said, certain forms of competitive swimming.
