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A Message For Those With Depression…

by Coach Mat | 8 Sep, 2020

This is the most remarkable time to be living. Change is happening rapidly and many are feeling challenges and crises converging to make their experience of life very difficult right now. I think there are a lot of new causes for depression upon us. Even those who...

Do You Have A Healthy Diet Of Discomfort?

by Coach Mat | 30 Aug, 2020

Change Is Stressful If anyone hasn’t got the memo yet, the news is out: the world is changing, and quickly. Change is stressful to the body and mind, even when that change is taking a person in a better direction. That stress is a sign of the body’s...

Why Practice Sitting Still? Part 2

by Coach Mat | 8 Aug, 2020

In Part 1 I offered some reasons why mindfulness-without-motion is a good thing to practice. I would now like to offer some recommendations on how to start sitting still. Be Led By Curiousity First, you need to genuinely want to try this, out of some sense of...

Why Practice Sitting Still? Part 1

by Coach Mat | 1 Aug, 2020

Practicing mindfulness while moving is something I’ve been doing, advocating and coaching for many years. It makes a lot of sense to increase awareness of what the body is doing in order to protect and refine what’s working well and correct what is not. As...

You’ve Swam Farther. You’ve Swam Faster. Now What?

by Coach Mat | 25 Jul, 2020

Imagine you had some sort of a restriction that only allowed you to swim a strictly limited distance or limited time in each session, for the next 10 years. Let’s say you could only swim 30 minutes or 1500 meters and then you had to stop. How could you still...

Fitness Fatigue vs. Extraordinary Fatigue Part 2

by Coach Mat | 4 Jul, 2020

This is the second part of Fitness Fatigue vs. Extraordinary Fatigue. What happens when we have an extraordinary athletic achievement but go past some internal limits to do it? In the first part I told the story of my longer-than-normal long run, and in this second...