by Coach Mat | 7 Jul, 2018 | Competitive/Performance Training, Design Principles, How To Train?, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Practice Series, Speed, Speed and Pace, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Strength, Strength Training, Weight-lifting
The universal speed equation is… Speed = Stroke Length x Stroke Rate If you want to go faster in the water you need to make stroke length (SL) longer without losing more than a calculated amount of stroke rate, or you need to make stroke rate (SR) higher without...
by Coach Mat | 21 Apr, 2018 | Speed and Pace, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Swim Watch, Tempo Trainer, Tempo, Stroke Rate (SR)
In swimming measurements, do you know the difference between seconds per stroke and strokes per minute? Or the difference between tempo and stroke rate? Or when to use one over the other? Don’t worry if you don’t know, or don’t care. But sometimes...
by Coach Mat | 4 Mar, 2018 | Aging and Improvement, Coaching Adults (Masters), Design Principles, Injury, Lessons From Elites, Mastery Process, Pain, Running, Self Limiting Exercises, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Tempo, Stroke Rate (SR), Yoga
I can’t emphasize this enough, because it is a cornerstone of our care for adult athletes: we train for superior technique because that is what is going to keep our body pleasantly functional into our oldest age . Taking off from the way it was said in the...
by Coach Mat | 25 Feb, 2018 | Competitive/Performance Training, Design Principles, How To Train?, Martial Arts, Metabolic Training, Muscle Training, Neurological Training, Plateau (No Progress), Running, Speed and Pace, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Tempo, Stroke Rate (SR), Training Theory, Triathlon Swimming
A member of our online training site, the Mediterra Swim Dojo, has been noticing that after a certain distance in a training set, his stroke quality deteriorates which results in his stroke count (strokes per length of the pool) going up uncontrollably. He asked a...
by Coach Mat | 25 Nov, 2017 | Distance Training, Energy Management, Propulsion Skills, Speed, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Tempo, Stroke Rate (SR), Training Theory
This discussion is continued from Part 1… If body shape, stroke pattern and stroke length were equal between two swimmers, but one swimmer is sending her recovery arm forward with better momentum and directing that into her sleek Skate Position, she would be...
by Coach Mat | 18 Nov, 2017 | About Coach Mat, Energy Management, Propulsion Skills, Speed, Speed and Pace, SPL, Stroke Length (SL), Streamline Skills
Here is something I explain to my swimmers when we’re building (or re-building) the freestyle stroke for the first time. This is meant to help students on each extreme: those who are too anxious to start moving faster, and those who are too reluctant to add more...
