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Flow Requires Sense Of Control

by Coach Mat | 19 Aug, 2017

This continues from Part 5 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. #5 – A sense of potential control. If challenges and skills are in...

Flow Requires Full Attention

by Coach Mat | 5 Aug, 2017

This continues from Part 4 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. The first two features of flow had more to do with planning what your training...

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....

Flow Requires Opportunities To Act

by Coach Mat | 22 Jul, 2017

This continues from Part 3 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. #2 – Opportunities For Action “The opportunities for acting...

Your Swimming Brain

by Jamee Small | 19 Jul, 2017

What draws you to the practice of Total Immersion? Is it smooth swimming? Is it for health and fitness? A lifelong goal? What about as a method to train and sharpen your brain? Does it meet all those aims? The brain physically and cognitively is absolutely...

How To Solve Any Swimming Problem

by Coach Mat | 15 Jul, 2017

What’s the biggest obstacle standing in the way of your reaching your swimming goal? Would you like me to tell you how to solve that problem? Well, I can’t address every individual problem there is, but I can point out the different categories you can...