by Coach Mat | 4 Mar, 2018 | Aging and Improvement, Coaching Adults (Masters), Design Principles, Injury, Lessons From Elites, Mastery Process, Pain, Running, Self Limiting Exercises, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Tempo, Stroke Rate (SR), Yoga
I can’t emphasize this enough, because it is a cornerstone of our care for adult athletes: we train for superior technique because that is what is going to keep our body pleasantly functional into our oldest age . Taking off from the way it was said in the...
by Coach Mat | 21 May, 2017 | Coaching Adults (Masters), Competitive/Performance Training, Exhaustion, Masters Group Training, Motivating Swimmers, Student Stories, Training Theory
I have a couple swimmers in one of our weekly practice groups who are members of a local masters swim group that meets on a two different evenings each week. They came to me some months ago because their coach is great at making them work hard, and work harder, in...
by Coach Mat | 14 May, 2017 | Aging and Improvement, Coaching Adults (Masters), Competitive/Performance Training, Discomfort, Fitness Training, How To Train?, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Muscle Training, Plateau (No Progress), Sprint Training, Sprint Training, Strength, Strength, Strength Training, Student Stories
A 46 year old swimmer from Azerbaijan has been working with me for some months through the Mediterra Swim Dojo, our online training site, to prepare for 10 km swimming this summer. Within the last year or so he’s gone from essentially a non-swimmer to a...
by Coach Mat | 6 Feb, 2016 | Coaching Adults (Masters), Coaching Methods, Competitive/Performance Training, Fitness Training, Student Stories, Training Theory
My last blog post Longer Length Or Faster Rate? attracted many thoughtful comments from regular readers. Those comments brought up many more enticing blog topics. I would like to lay out one of them in this post. Here is a scenario that seems to happen eventually to...
by Coach Mat | 15 Aug, 2015 | Coaching Adults (Masters), Competitive/Performance Training, Focal Points, Pool Training, Practice Examples, Self-Coaching, Training Theory
One thing TI Coaches are often asked by swimmers who have migrated to Total Immersion training from traditional masters swim programs is “how can I still do these workouts we’re given, but do them in a Total Immersion way?” The short answer is this:...
by Coach Mat | 15 Nov, 2014 | Coaching Adults (Masters), Coaching Ethics, Injury Management, Muscle Tone & Control, Neuromuscular Training, Weight Training
Recently a swimmer friend emailed me the link to this article and asked my perspective on it. Since it comes through an authoritative source (US Masters Swimming) it carries some weight in the minds of swimmers. The article is ” Strength and Size: Getting...
