Specific Skills | Mediterra Swim & Run

Get Curious About Your Fear

by Coach Mat | 28 Mar, 2017

Coincidentally, just after I published the previous article Swimming Past Your Perceived Limits, I happen to listen to a particular podcast called Habits, Mindfulness, Addiction from Michael Gervais’s Finding Mastery podcast series. On this episode page the...

Swimming Past Your Perceived Limits

by Coach Mat | 25 Mar, 2017

I’ve had some version of this conversation with a few different swimmers recently and the scenario is something like this: a swimmer is wondering how to work through the strong discomfort she encounters when swimming up to a certain distance in set – say...

Finding Flow In Swimming

by Coach Mat | 18 Mar, 2017

When asked what my training objectives are this is what I prefer to say: “I train to achieve a state of flow – I want to enter into it quickly, restore it more quickly when disrupted, sustain it for longer periods of time, at a wider range of distance,...

Breathing Breakthrough

by Coach Mat | 11 Feb, 2017

On the Mediterra Swim Dojo, we have a few swimmers currently following the Master Class Breathing course. Among those in the course and some who have taken it previously, we have had some discussions about what creates breathing stress and what are the solutions...

The Discipline Of Restraint

by Coach Mat | 28 Jan, 2017

One of the ways you can detect truly elite coaches is by the emphasis in their teaching and marketing on ‘going-smarter’ rather than ‘going-harder’ (though this is required also). Mature coaches seem to echo the refrain: listen to your body. If...

Your Abilities Expand

by Coach Mat | 7 Jan, 2017

It is easy for us to agree that expertise takes time. We see examples of this fact in biographies of masters admired in every field. But do you believe you too can become an expert of swimming? You can. At your age. Over time, with Deliberate Practice, not only will...