I am wondering if there are commonly used metrics for use by fitness swimmers to measure their progress. As we all know it is easier to maintain motivation if one feels one is improving. What I am looking for are things the non-competitive swimmer can use to measure their progress in the pool. Metrics that could be measured in club workouts would be ideal.
Some of things that come to mind are distance in a given time (T60, T30, T20, T15, T10, T5) and time for distance (400m, 1000m, 1500m, 5km). Also some sort of stroke count metric might be good, 50m time plus stroke count being the most commonly cited.
My goal is to embed these into an online log that people can use to track their progress.
Any suggestions?
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I like it, I can even coach all aspects of the swim, bike and run., and my clients can access for the work outs without my help I just pay $9 a month for each client. How ever I like the money I make from video stroke analysis better, I make all of the money and do the stroke analysis with my analysis program that costs me $99 a year and send out my own workouts to them.
Here is a note I received today from one of my clients
(1/2 mile) I swam it in 11:54!!! If you remember at the last sprint tri I did it in 16:02. I believe that all your help really reduced my time!!!! Of course there are still some things I need to work on (long axis rotation especially), but w/out your video analysis i don't think i could have done so good. I remeber you saying we'll get the mile time down to 25 minutes, well i passed that.
I like it, I can even coach all aspects of the swim, bike and run., and my clients can access for the work outs without my help I just pay $9 a month for each client. How ever I like the money I make from video stroke analysis better, I make all of the money and do the stroke analysis with my analysis program that costs me $99 a year and send out my own workouts to them.
Here is a note I received today from one of my clients
(1/2 mile) I swam it in 11:54!!! If you remember at the last sprint tri I did it in 16:02. I believe that all your help really reduced my time!!!! Of course there are still some things I need to work on (long axis rotation especially), but w/out your video analysis i don't think i could have done so good. I remeber you saying we'll get the mile time down to 25 minutes, well i passed that.
