Spring Update: New Ways to Train, Track, and Personalize Your Swim
Our latest release is all about making your training more personal, more flexible, and more aligned with how you want to swim. Whether you're chasing performance or just getting in the water for your health, wellness and longevity benefits, these updates are designed to meet you where you’re at and help you move forward with purpose.
New Features at a Glance:
- Expanded HeadCoach™ Objectives
- More Personalized Workouts & Plans
- SwimStraight™ Improvements + No Subscription Needed
Expanded HeadCoach™ Objectives
Swimming looks different for everyone, and now with our experience, your Objectives and goals can reflect that. With our latest update, HeadCoach™ now introduces a new Health & Wellness Objective for you to choose from, giving you more ways to define what success looks like in the water. Now choose from:
- Relax & De-Stress
- Build Strength
- Improve Sleep
- Lose Weight
These new focus areas are designed for swimmers who prioritize fitness, wellness, and consistency, not just performance. For example, if you choose “Stay Healthy” in our “Swimming Objective” menu in HeadCoach™, it will build a personalized plan based on your motivations, timeline, and lifestyle, so your training works for you, not the other way around.
More Personalized Workouts & Plans
Your training should reflect how you like to swim, across all strokes. Now, it finally does.
We’re very excited to share that HeadCoach™ workouts and plans now support a broader range of preferences, including:
- Generating workouts using all stroke types, tailored to your swimming
- Equipment preferences
- Drill preferences
This means your workouts are no longer one-size-fits-all, or focused solely around freestyle; they’re built around the strokes you like to swim, your habits, and how you actually swim. This is a huge update, as we know that to become a well-rounded swimmer, practicing all stroke types (yes, even fly) is beneficial. Now, workouts and plans will incorporate these new preferences.
SwimStraight™ Improvements
In case you didn’t know, SwimStraight™ is now part of our core experience. No extra steps, no barriers. Just the best open-water guidance using our onboard digital compass, built right into your FORM open-water swimming options. Available for all to use.
We’ve also made additional key improvements to give you more control over your SwimStraight™ experience, as well as further improved accuracy:
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SwimStraight™ Sighting Reminder Toggle: You’re now in control. Keep it on for safety, or turn it off for a quieter swim (default is ON). Find your option to change in the goggles settings on the FORM App.
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Improved Accuracy: Algorithm updates help address edge cases and deliver more reliable guidance across all open-water conditions.
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General Performance Enhancements: Ensure smoother, more consistent navigation guidance and tracking throughout your open-water swims.
SwimStraight™ continues to evolve to help you swim straighter, stay on course, and focus less on navigation, and more on your effort, whether swimming recreationally, training or racing.
Equally, for open water swimming, our Effort Pace metric (launched last year) works by analyzing how hard you’re actually working. Using your stroke rate, motion, and swim intensity, Effort Pace translates that effort into an estimated pace you would be swimming in calm, flat water, so you can understand your true performance regardless of currents or conditions.
If you don’t have access to GPS data or want a more consistent gauge on your open water pace without the risk of GPS data dropouts, then be sure to add Effort Pace to your dashboard.
With this Spring update, our team has put in a lot of great work to continue delivering more ways to personalize your Objectives and goals, greater control over your experience, and smarter guidance in every swim. We hope you enjoy these new updates.
There’s only one thing left to do: update your FORM app and goggles, and get swimming!
