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Coach Mat is Back on this Blog

by Coach Mat | 7 Jan, 2022

Photo by Juliana Barquero on Unsplash It’s been nearly a year since I took a pause from the blog here. Over this last year, I was increasingly absorbed with study and writing (draft after draft) of my masters dissertation which I completed a week ago. With a bit...

Coach Mat Taking A Pause On This Blog

by Coach Mat | 21 Feb, 2021

As a coach (both for athletics and for life and personal development) I advocate for self and situational awareness, listening to one’s body and being and environment, and learning to interpret and respond in a health-promoting way. Things change, inside of us...

Stacking Your Movement At Home

by Jamee Small | 30 Jan, 2021

Under these global circumstances most of us are staying at home perhaps more than we ever have as adults. With all this time stuck in one place, we may look at our habitats and imagine how they could possibly serve our bodies and minds better. How many of us have...

SwimMastery Gains Momentum

by Coach Mat | 14 Nov, 2020

Despite COVID restrictions, no travel and very slow local swim coaching work, I’ve remained quite busy behind the scenes building SwimMastery with my co-founder, Tracey Baumann in UK. I am genuinely more pleased and more hopeful for the future as the months go...

Thinking About Running (Nearly) Barefoot?

by Coach Mat | 17 Oct, 2020

This interview with Irene Davis PhD on Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast caught my attention because it is a discussion about cushioned/minimalist running shoes, heel/forefoot strike and impact forces and injuries, transition to minimalist shoes and process for...

Benefits of Non-Judgment in Your Training

by Coach Mat | 11 Oct, 2020

Practicing non-judgment in athletic training has been one of the more liberating experiences I’ve had. It opens me up to more information, a more complex and nuanced understanding of my body and performance, and it allows me to form the kind of emotional...