Mediterra’s Run Training Menu

Coach Mat is exceptional in his understanding and approach to teaching and guiding running students. His principle-based and neurologically sensitive learning method will guide you into the safer, stronger, longer lasting movement patterns for running.  Your understanding and appreciation for your body and its interaction with gravity will likely expand. Your training activities will help strengthen attention in your mind, and improve control in your body.

At the start of each new skill project we will explain the big picture (the what, why and how of each skill) and then describe each activity and the specific cues we will use. Then we will practice these over and over in small, manageable pieces, gradually layering skills and building complexity in the positions and movements.

For each skill we will move through three steps during the training:

1. Introduction to the the skills, the relevant focal points, and the drills we may use.
2. Demonstration, hands-on correction and feedback from the instructor.
3. Guided practice for you to integrate the new skills

There is a great deal of new (verbal, visual and kinesthetic) information given out in these sessions and we are aware that a new student will absorb only a portion of it all. We have a lot of that information stored on our training site which you will have access to.

Will you have time in your schedule to practice between lessons?

Just as if you were practicing a musical instrument or a foreign language, it is important to your progress that you practice on your own between lessons, at least once, if not two or three times.

You may look at scheduling lessons when you know you will have room in your calendar to include personal practice times between. They don’t need to be long sessions, but even just a few practices will help your brain and body digest what you’ve been learning and make steady progress from lesson to lesson.

Private lessons are totally customizable to you or your small groups needs and interests. We can make a plan to work through a set of skills (like those listed on this page) or work on whatever topics of interest you have at the start of the session.

We can work anywhere from beginner skills to advance skills and high performance training. We are particularly pleased to work with those who feel they have athletic aches and pains, those with neural and physical injury or impairment, older adults and those who need a safe and gentle approach to learning. We are eager to work in sensitive cooperation with other therapeutic attention and body work you may be receiving.

Private lessons may be combined with a customized coaching plan through the Mediterra Dojo, where you receive both a personalized training plan and live coaching attention in the pool.

Do you want to learn from the beginning a way your body was designed to? Do you want to running feel smoother, and ache-free?

This series will guide you to running more smoothly, more peacefully, and much more efficiently. You’ll enjoy running more than ever.

Develop supporting posture and tap into gravity to help you move forward more easily. Learn to soften the impact and harness muscle elasticity on each step. You will also develop a more satisfying, diaphragmatic breathing pattern. This series will prepare you to take the Running Advanced series. 

The recommended duration of this series is four weeks, with one 60-minute lesson each week, and your own practice time between, if possible.

Do you want to learn to develop much more efficient and effective speed, that does not thrash your body in the process? Do you want to learn how to acceleration more easily and sustain that speed?

This series will show you how to use gravity and body position to accelerate, keep impact as smooth as possible while changing speed and maintaining speed according to your performance goals.

The recommended duration of this series is three weeks, with one 60-minute lesson each week, and your own practice time between, if possible.

Do you want to run on trails, unpaved roads and on other natural terrain? Do you want to learn how to distribute the load on your body while ascending and descending hills? Do you want to learn to manage terrain challenges, more skillfully, more safely?

We will be glad to teach you the skills that allow experienced runners to enjoy, stay safe and last longer on more challenging natural terrain.

Depending on your starting point and your learning objectives for trail skills, the duration of a series may be 1 or more sessions.