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The Habit Of Exercise – Part 4

by Coach Mat | 18 Apr, 2018

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...

The Habit Of Exercise – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 19 Mar, 2018

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...

Foods Provide Nutrition and Cause Stress

by Coach Mat | 4 Feb, 2018

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...

Tim Terriss Interview With Terry

by Coach Mat | 30 Dec, 2017

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...

Addicted To Flow

by Coach Mat | 24 Sep, 2017

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...

Get New Insights From Old Information

by Coach Mat | 20 Jun, 2017

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...