by Coach Mat | 6 May, 2017 | About Coach Mat, Aging and Improvement, Dry-land Training, Flexibility, Injury, Injury Management, Injury Prevention, Muscle Tension, Recommended Reading, Running, Strength, Strength Training
Many swimmers wonder what kind of exercises they should do on dry-land that would help them with their swimming. I wanted to share with you what I do, what I have been doing for years, to maintain my joints for regular and varied activities, not just for swimming. ...
by Coach Mat | 19 Feb, 2017 | Aging and Improvement, Coaching Ethics, Injury, Injury Management, Injury Prevention, Lessons From Elites, Pain, Recommended Reading, Recovery, Stress, Training Theory
I was listening to this inspiring Rich Roll podcast interview with David Goggins. It was 1 hr 45 minutes of mind-blowing stories of what this guy has accomplished in his military career and in ultra-distance events, in light of the history he had to work from. All...
by Coach Mat | 4 Feb, 2017 | About Coach Mat, Aging and Improvement, How To Train?, Injury, Injury Management, Injury Prevention, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Muscle Training, Pain, Progression, Running
In the last post I shared some transcribed parts of Rich Roll’s podcast that covered one coach’s way of establishing healthy and injury-free athletes. There was one point in that discussion that may have drifted by too fast – it is so subtle but so...
by Coach Mat | 21 Jan, 2017 | About Coach Mat, Drills For Skills, How To Train?, Injury, Injury Management, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Practice Examples, Running
This title will likely attract attention because injury seems to accompany serious swimmers who persist in the sport long enough. The questions are common: should I practice when injured and if so, how? Injured By Swimming The first scenario to address is when you...
by Coach Mat | 30 Oct, 2016 | About Other Perspectives, About TI, Aging and Improvement, Coaching Methods, Competitive/Performance Training, Fitness Training, How To Train?, Injury, Injury Management, Injury Prevention, Internal Feedback, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Lessons From Elites, Mastery Process, Speed and Pace, Training Theory, Triathlon Swimming
I have spent a great deal of space on this blog to explain the view that superior performance is composed of both an extraordinary product on the outside – such as speed – and an extraordinary feature on the inside – energy efficiency. Whether your...
by Coach Mat | 28 Aug, 2016 | About Coach Mat, Aging and Improvement, Coaching Methods, Competitive/Performance Training, Fitness Training, Injury, Injury Management, Injury Prevention, Lessons From Elites, Pleasure Swimming, Technique Theory, TI Philosophy
You may have noticed that there is a proper way to do a squat, or a dead lift. We understand that when you load these movements, if the body is properly positioned, a proper load placed, and that load it carried through the best pathway, the athlete can do it without...
