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Flow Requires Opportunities To Act

by Coach Mat | 22 Jul, 2017

This continues from Part 3 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. #2 – Opportunities For Action “The opportunities for acting...

Your Swimming Brain

by Jamee Small | 19 Jul, 2017

What draws you to the practice of Total Immersion? Is it smooth swimming? Is it for health and fitness? A lifelong goal? What about as a method to train and sharpen your brain? Does it meet all those aims? The brain physically and cognitively is absolutely...

Flow Requires Clear Goals

by Coach Mat | 8 Jul, 2017

This continues from Part 2 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. In The Evolving Self, Csikszentmihalyi is connecting the research findings he...

Flow Requires Preparation

by Coach Mat | 1 Jul, 2017

This continues from Part 1 of our discussion of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s eight “characteristic dimensions of the flow experience” outlined in his book The Evolving Self. We talk about this a lot. But, what is Flow? First of all, you may read about...

Breathing Solutions Outside The Pool

by Coach Mat | 11 Jun, 2017

After a swimmer has invested the time to thoroughly work through fundamental swimming skills, often the swimmer encounters some obstacles to improvement that are better addressed by training he needs to do outside the pool. Some major areas for improvement that emerge...

You Must Feel It – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 15 Apr, 2017

In a live training session the coach can watch and offer you vital feedback on how closely some part of your body position or movement pattern is matching the ideal. Then hopefully, they will also offer you practical guidance on how to bring it even closer. Some...