Strength Training | Mediterra Swim & Run

Do You Have A Proper Training Diet?

by Coach Mat | 13 Jul, 2019

If you do it yourself, how do you plan your training? Or, if that sounds unappealing and you prefer to use the training materials created by someone else, how do they create their training plans? Is there an obvious logic behind it? Are there principles? Tradition?...

Amazing Things Can Happen In A Week

by Coach Mat | 6 Jul, 2019

I would guess that the average number of practices a week for those reading this is three days a week. I know of some whose schedule permits less and some whose schedule permits more. When we add up the interruptions and challenges in our routines over the months, we...

Can You Trick Yourself Into A Longer Stroke?

by Coach Mat | 8 Jun, 2019

When you are working on improving your stroke length (stroke count) or stroke rate (tempo) there are neural tricks you can perform to get your body to make a fairly quick improvement in a single practice. But, in many cases, those improvements hold up for only a few...

Your Lifestyle Of Strength

by Coach Mat | 9 Feb, 2019

For long distance events you need to be strong in terms of muscle endurance. Your body needs to be capable of working at moderate effort level for a long time. For sprint events you need to be strong in terms of muscle power. Your body needs to be capable of...

What Is The Difference Between Strength, Endurance And Power?

by Coach Mat | 26 Jan, 2019

As you may have noticed from my style of writing on this blog, I try to be careful with definitions of words and use them in technically accurate ways. I appreciate when someone sends me a kind note pointing out where I may have misused or misunderstood a term in its...

What You Can Learn About Speed From Butterfly

by Coach Mat | 2 Sep, 2018

Even if you do not practice the butterfly stroke, you may appreciate this approach to solving the not-getting-any-faster problem… Coach Jamee and I have been working with a mother and three kids (10, 12 and 16) on a swim team who came to us to work on freestyle...