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Do What Works For You (?)

by Coach Mat | 2 Dec, 2017

“Just do what works for you.” I have heard some version of this phrase spoken or written by coaches or pundits many times, in many different sports. It can be alarming to me because: I doubt the average (citizen) athlete understands the context of...

Which Podium Are You Aiming For?

by Coach Mat | 17 Sep, 2017

In engineering there is this rule of optimization which says you can’t optimize for everything in a system. You have to choose what few functions or goals to prioritize and give greater resources to and which to strip resources from. You can’t have it...

When To Train With Others?

by Coach Mat | 2 Sep, 2017

My long time friend (since 5 years old!) and I were debating the merits of training with others. Our conversation was about running, but when I composed my summary of our thoughts I realized this would apply to swimming as well, in the case of training for a...

When Do You Need A Coach?

by Coach Mat | 30 Jul, 2017

Is it time to get some coach attention or can you squeeze out more performance on your own with the resources you have available already? Good question! I was a self-taught Total Immersion swimmer. For that matter, I was a self-taught swimmer well before I found TI....

Priorities For Your General Conditioning

by Coach Mat | 6 May, 2017

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. ...

Love Your Weakest Member

by Coach Mat | 4 Feb, 2017

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...