by Coach Mat | 17 Oct, 2020
This interview with Irene Davis PhD on Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast caught my attention because it is a discussion about cushioned/minimalist running shoes, heel/forefoot strike and impact forces and injuries, transition to minimalist shoes and process for...
by Coach Mat | 19 Sep, 2020
Should you take up running (or some other activity) to supplement your swimming? I saw a discussion on a swim coach Facebook page asking what other coaches thought about making their age-group swimmers do some running as part of their conditioning for swimming. There...
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...
by Coach Mat | 28 Jun, 2020
Before I get into the story of my long run and lessons I learned from it, I want to make sure you don’t get distracted by the distances I am running, as if this is too long (or too short) to apply to your situation. I am telling the story in order to describe...
by Coach Mat | 12 Apr, 2020
If I had to choose a second improvement project for pool-exiled swimmers with more time on your hands, I would assign the work of improving posture. This essay is part of a series discussing the kind of complementary training you can do while kept away from the pool...
by Coach Mat | 28 Mar, 2020
Here is a follow up to Your Body Composition And Strength Matter For Speed… Case Study of My Body Composition My body composition is quite lean, and I am on the more ‘compact’ side of males – 176 cm tall and only about 65 kg (143 lbs). I enjoy...
