Join Our ‘Effortless Exercise’ Discussion

by Coach Mat | 17 Mar, 2013

This week we’ll start our ‘book club’ discussion of Grant Molyneux’s pdf eBook ‘Effortless Exercise’ to strengthen our understanding and motivation for more consistent, satisfying, injury-free training (in any tri sport!). I sent...

Live Well In Pool And Out

by Coach Mat | 13 Mar, 2013

Yesterday, Coach Terry shared with me a testimony from one of his students, a doctor from Sweden. I wanted to share with you a paragraph from that which I found particularly inspiring: [My wife] said a few days ago that I should try to feel as relaxed outside the pool...

Tune-Up Quick Guide

by Coach Mat | 12 Mar, 2013

Here is a more simplified guide on how a Tune-Up could be constructed: Distance/Duration: It could be from 10 minutes to 15 minutes for an already well-tuned swimmer, to the entire practice for an out-of-tune swimmer. I am very reluctant to lay out actual distance or...

How To Construct A Tune-Up

by Coach Mat | 8 Mar, 2013

  So what exactly might a ‘Tune-Up’ look like? It is a sequence of steps I take to prepare my mind and body for the main task of the practice. It’s a series of steps, or a routine even, for bringing each essential piece into line so the swimmer (me)...

Out Of Tune

by Coach Mat | 5 Mar, 2013

Without a sufficient tune-up you might run into the problem I had today in practice. The following story will show you both my mistakes and my reasoning on how to correct it next time. When I arrived the pool was (finally) a pleasant cool temperature rather than the...

Why Tune-Up?

by Coach Mat | 5 Mar, 2013

What is a Tune-Up? And why should you add one to your swim practice? Traditionally, in individual sports like running and swimming, we have used the term “warm-up” for that part of the practice we do at the very beginning. The word ‘warm’...

Four Categories For Practice

by Coach Mat | 1 Mar, 2013

What skills is your practice focused on today? What is the main objective you need to accomplish? What information do you need to gather? What measurements do you need to take? How will your observations and accomplishments (or failures) today affect what you do in...

Little Details Big Difference

by Coach Mat | 27 Feb, 2013

Little details can make a big difference. I am back in the pool for a couple weeks while waiting for the sea to calm down. However, this particular pool is rarely consistent in temperature. So arriving yesterday I found it 30 C (87 F) – uncomfortably (and...

Read About Effortless Training

by Coach Mat | 25 Feb, 2013

I would like to invite you to order a pdf ebook called ‘Effortless Exercise’ by TI Coach Grant Molyneux of Alberta Canada. It is an extremely insightful book about using the wisdom of your body to pursue your best performance – the book is written in...

Smooth The Jerk

by Coach Mat | 23 Feb, 2013

I want to share a few observations from my cool water swimming experiment this winter. You might appreciate some of this for your own swim training journey… If you’ve been following me this winter you know I have set out to swim in the Mediterranean Sea on...