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Skin Care For Pool Swimmers

by Coach Mat | 28 Jan, 2018

If any of you, like me, are around family members who are not swimmers, you may get polite but concerned comments about how much you smell like chlorine after being at the pool. When I was a kid I would lick my skin and sniff as a reminder of the practice coming that...

Foot Care Around The Pool

by Coach Mat | 24 Jan, 2018

It’s not a very exciting topic, but for those of us who spend a lot of time at a pool – and in the communal shower and changing room – taking care of our feet is an important health topic. These wet and warm surfaces are petri dishes for highly...

Learn To Coach Yourself

by Coach Mat | 14 Jan, 2018

When I started the first version of our online training in 2012, my intention was to provide support for our camp and workshop swimmers, who traveled from afar, who were going home and had no local coach and no materials to show them what to do in the weeks and months...

What Gets You Out The Door?

by Coach Mat | 26 Dec, 2017

Let me explain what motivates me to keep training, day after day, month after month, year after year – and perhaps this will resonate with you as well. When Fitness Must Be Earned It was somewhere around 1987. I was a freshman in high school, and it was...

Does Swimming Burn Fat? 2

by Coach Mat | 9 Dec, 2017

As well as being asked about this from time to time, I’ve learned that this is a common online search phrase so I should get some extra hits on this post. Previously, I’ve written some thoughts on body fat in relation to swimming: Does Swimming Burn Fat? 1...

You Must Use Momentum – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 18 Nov, 2017

Here is something I explain to my swimmers when we’re building (or re-building) the freestyle stroke for the first time. This is meant to help students on each extreme: those who are too anxious to start moving faster, and those who are too reluctant to add more...