Very frequently, coaches around the world challenge their athletes to understand where they are in their progress for the season. Test Sets are a very important part of measuring the performance of athletes... yet test set times, data are mostly written down on paper and hopefully entered into a database or spreadsheet to track progress.
How about another solution?
The GoSwim app, with all of your athletes a scroll away, will not only track all of the test set swims, but also provide that athletes with a video of their swim.
When Coaches use their phone as their stopwatch, sure, they can estimate multiple swimmers times as they shout out 58.6, 58.9, 59.4... and uh... I think 1:00.6. LET'S GO!!!!
With the ability to have ONE COACH film a test set heat, that coach can tag the 4-6 or 8 swimmers in the heat. Those swimmers will automatically get the video and can add their data after practice... another act that engages them in the process of understanding their own sport. TAKING OWNERSHIP!
Most coaches can still use the stopwatch and yell... we don't want to take that away, but the technology is here TODAY, to actually add real data, performance data to test sets. To REALLY track how the swimmers are performing over the course of a season.
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