by Coach Mat | 23 Jun, 2018 | Design Principles, How To Train?, Self-Coaching
This is part of a series called The Happier Swimmer: how to set up your practice lifestyle so that you are making steady improvement toward your goal, making the body safer and stronger, and enjoying the process more than ever so you have the motivation to keep going....
by Coach Mat | 16 Jun, 2018 | Design Principles, How To Train?, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Motivation, Self-Coaching
This is part of a series called The Happier Swimmer: how to set up your practice lifestyle so that you are making steady improvement toward your goal, making the body safer and stronger, and enjoying the process more than ever so you have the motivation to keep...
by Coach Mat | 14 Jan, 2018 | About Mediterra, Competitive/Performance Training, Courses, Design Principles, Fitness Training, How To Train?, New Products, Online Coaching Program, Self-Coaching, Triathlon Swimming
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...
by Coach Mat | 30 Jul, 2017 | About Coach Mat, Discomfort, Group Training, How To Train?, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Motivation, Plateau (No Progress), Running, Self-Coaching, Solo Training
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....
by Jamee Small | 19 Jul, 2017 | Attention/Focus, Improving Attention, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Mastery Process, Neurological Training, Neuromuscular Training, Proprioception, Self-Coaching, Somatosensory Skill
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...
by Coach Mat | 28 May, 2017 | Competitive/Performance Training, Design Principles, External Feedback, Fitness Training, Internal Feedback, Mastery Process, Plateau (No Progress), Pleasure Swimming, Self-Coaching, Training Theory
There is this wide spectrum between “I want to perform better” and “I want to feel better” – a few swimmers seem to be on one extreme or the other, while the rest of us fall somewhere in the middle with a mixture of both. However, one of...
