by Coach Mat | 18 Apr, 2018 | About Coach Mat, Boredom, Flow State, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Meditation, Other Related Sports, Plateau (No Progress), Recommended Reading
This post is Part 4, the last of a 4-part series on The Habit Of Exercise. A cheat-sheet and stripped-down version of what I’ve done to develop a robust habit is provided at the bottom. Keep It Skill-Oriented Activities that don’t require much skill, or...
by Coach Mat | 19 Mar, 2018 | About Coach Mat, Aging, Aging and Improvement, Motivation, Other Related Sports, Recommended Reading
There may be a season of your life when it becomes important to you to get ready for a big athletic accomplishment, like a triathlon or a masters swim meet, or a swim holiday that has you training more than you have been used to. That event on a fast approaching date...
by Coach Mat | 4 Feb, 2018 | Food & Hydration, Recommended Reading
Foods have more than one side to them. When the body metabolizes food into energy and useful nutrients for rebuilding the body, there are waste products produced from that process. It is common to focus on what good things the food brings to the body, but not at what...
by Coach Mat | 30 Dec, 2017 | About Coach Terry, Recommended Reading
It has been just over two months now since Coach Terry passed away from this realm we are conscious of. I’d been waiting carefully until I felt I could listen to his voice again. Early this morning, preparing for a long run in the dark, I felt it was time to...
by Coach Mat | 24 Sep, 2017 | Boredom, Flow State, Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Motivation, Recommended Reading, Training Psychology
We come to the final part of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. Let’s review… Why pursue flow state? Because flow makes it feel...
by Coach Mat | 20 Jun, 2017 | Kaizen (Continual Improvement), Recommended Reading
When have you recently taken some time to look through your ‘old’ information on TI – that which you read months or years ago while studying the video, reading the book, or what you collected from your live training experience? Perhaps you scanned it...
