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When Do You Need A Coach?

by Coach Mat | 30 Jul, 2017

Is it time to get some coach attention or can you squeeze out more performance on your own with the resources you have available already? Good question! I was a self-taught Total Immersion swimmer. For that matter, I was a self-taught swimmer well before I found TI....

The Magic Wand

by Coach Mat | 4 Jun, 2017

When they were younger, just starting to do bigger chores around the house, I used to tease my daughters that I was giving them a ‘magic wand’ that could make much of what they wished in life come true. What is the magic wand? Hard work. Needless to say,...

Priorities For Your General Conditioning

by Coach Mat | 6 May, 2017

Many swimmers wonder what kind of exercises they should do on dry-land that would help them with their swimming. I wanted to share with you what I do, what I have been doing for years, to maintain my joints for regular and varied activities, not just for swimming. ...

Train Hard And Eat Junk

by Coach Mat | 1 Apr, 2017

Did that title catch your attention? Do you think I would advocate for eating poor foods? No way. But others keep saying it is ok if you do it in moderation. Before it was replaced with a new ad, I wish I had taken a photo of this billboard for a fitness club in our...

Love Your Weakest Member

by Coach Mat | 4 Feb, 2017

In the last post I shared some transcribed parts of Rich Roll’s podcast that covered one coach’s way of establishing healthy and injury-free athletes. There was one point in that discussion that may have drifted by too fast – it is so subtle but so...

Can You Practice When Injured?

by Coach Mat | 21 Jan, 2017

This title will likely attract attention because injury seems to accompany serious swimmers who persist in the sport long enough. The questions are common: should I practice when injured and if so, how? Injured By Swimming The first scenario to address is when...