When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

When You Go Harder But You Can’t Go Any Faster…

by | 11 Mar, 2023

The traditional approach to swimming faster is to just go harder and keep at it until something breaks through.  For some, that simple instruction might work. But for far too many it hasn’t.  Regardless of what approach you take to developing technique or...
If You Are Not Getting Stronger or Faster…

If You Are Not Getting Stronger or Faster…

by | 18 Feb, 2023

You’ve been training faithfully, doing the best you know how to do. But you are not making progress anymore. What might be going on?  Training involves these three variables… What kind of work you do = the kind of activity and what aspects of the...

Why Some Swimmers Struggle With Swimming Better

by | 13 Feb, 2023

I’ve observed some differences between how one person can arrange their body to execute a skill in the water and create the desired effect – like forming the frame with their whole body and sliding it along the surface for meters –  and another...
Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

by | 15 Apr, 2022

The mind and the body develop together and where one goes the other is pulled along. If you are training the body to become capable of something extraordinary, are you training the mind for its role in this as well? There is a saying, most notably promoted by Daniel...
Trust Supports Skill… At Every Level Of Performance

Trust Supports Skill… At Every Level Of Performance

by | 19 Mar, 2022

One of my favorite scenarios in coaching is to guide a non-swimmer from a tense and fearful relationship with water to a relaxed and confident relationship as a capable swimmer. With an understanding of what’s happening deep in the body’s autonomic nervous...
Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

by | 7 Jan, 2022

At one time or another, you may have received the rebuke, “Don’t think about it so much. Just do it!” In some consequential situations where self-control is needed, slowing down to think is a really good thing to do. In others, where a different kind of control is...
Translate »

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

To receive the latest news and updates from Mediterra.

You have Successfully Subscribed!

[css] body .gform_wrapper ul li.gfield { padding-bottom:40px; }