Psychological | Mediterra Swim & Run

Pain And Peace

by Coach Mat | 23 Jan, 2016

Is there pain and suffering of some form in your training experience? For many, this is not only a common experience, this is the expected experience. After all, they say you must be tough to be a real swimmer, right? Perhaps. But what kind of toughness are we talking...

Train And Maintain The Brain

by Coach Mat | 5 Dec, 2015

Many people seem to care about what will happen to their physical quality of life as they get older. But do you wonder what will happen to your mental quality of life as you get older? I think we readily understand the importance of maintaining physical fitness. We...

Test for Progress and Weakness

by Coach Mat | 28 Nov, 2015

Here is an excerpt from the instruction in the12-week Master Class 1K course inside our Online Coaching Program. It is describing the role of the test swim and guiding the swimmer’s response to it: To test progress and reveal strengths and weak spots you need to...

Stroke-Change Skill

by Coach Mat | 21 Nov, 2015

I’ve approached questions and comments like these at least a couple times before on my blog, and let me try another… What if I am practicing the wrong thing? I don’t want to get good at something that is incorrect! Two recent blog posts address part...

Using Drills Appropriately

by Coach Mat | 14 Nov, 2015

I received this comment on a blog post recently… I tried to practice Spear Switch drill. I do this along with two beat kick instead of flutter. When I switch, I don’t see any forward propulsion in my body due to the switch or kick. I do see a propulsion due to...

Correction vs. Over-Correction

by Coach Mat | 7 Nov, 2015

With just about every movement art and sport I can think of artists and athletes are trying to bring their movement patterns closer to an ideal, whether that ideal is about beauty, power, or efficiency… or all of them together, as in our case with swimming....