We offer 4 payments levels based on the amount of input you may require for your swimming:

1. Guidance £FREE (forever!)

2. Understanding £1.99/mo

3. Routine £8.99/mo

4. Ultimate (Coming Soon) £49-149/mo

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Yes. You can get the equivalent of a 2-months free for every 12-month subscription block - improving your swimming with Swim Smooth has never been more affordable. Jump to the GURU to check out the savings in your currency.

Absolutely! You will continue to have access to the end of your billing cycle, but won’t be charged again after that.

We’ve got something better than that! You can get 7-day’s worth of FREE access to the Routine level of the Swim Smooth GURU by registering here without any need to input any credit card details, giving you ample opportunity to connect your devices, download a couple of sessions, watch some inspiring videos and then get down to the pool to record your swim for subsequent analysis.

Not at this stage, but watch this space!

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At this stage, just the Apple Watch. Why? Simply because the technology that we require to provide an insightful interpretation and actionable advice on your stroke was only available on the Apple Watch when we commenced development. As other devices start to open up their access to the gyros and accelerometers within, so too will we continue to expand to these other devices.

Yes, absolutely. We still have a Garmin integration which allows us to pull your data from your Garmin Connect account in order to consolidate all your swimming data in one place. The only thing you’re missing out on at this stage as a Garmin user is the Stroke Insights feature.

No, definitely not. We recognise that not everyone likes to wear a watch when they swim. Sometimes this is because you don’t want the hassle of having anything technology-based on your wrist when you swim, and sometimes it’s because you don’t like the actual feeling of something on your wrist when you swim. We get it! Two additional reasons why we chose to first start with the Apple Watch was because it’s form factor is small and light on your wrist when you swim, and secondly because it’s designed to be a “set and forget” device when you swim, i.e. press go at the start and stop at the end of your swim and let us do all the interval interpretation between.

That all said, if you still don’t fancy the idea of using a watch, we’ve baked in the ability for you to add your sessions manually as a simple training diary so that you can keep on top of your swimming progress. Simple.

Yes, it most certainly does!

No. Our primary focus is for those who wish to improve their freestyle swimming, especially for longer distances.

Sadly this is a relatively common complaint from swimmers in the UK in particular where health and safety guidelines seem to have become ridiculously stringent. The weirdest scenario in these pools is that often soft, flexible rubber fins aren’t allowed, but hard, rigid plastic hand paddles are allowed – no guessing which could potentially cause more damage if used incorrectly! Rather silly really!

Anyway, if you are stuck with this predicament, here are a few things you can do:

1. Source an alternative pool that might be more swim ‘toy’ friendly – given the benefits of using these ‘toys’ over not, if it came down to an extra 10-15 minute drive but you had free, unrestricted use of the training aids we recommend, take the longer option. You’re likely to find these types of pools much more accommodating and understanding of your general lane swimming needs anyway.

2. No alternative pool close by? Speak to your pool manager and suggest setting up a fin-friendly swimming lane a couple of times per week at less busy periods. It could well be that the manager has never considered this as a possibility but if it draws in extra revenue for them with your regular attendance, it can only be a win-win. Always be polite when asking this, especially if initially you meet a resounding “no”. Like Obiwan Kenobe in Star Wars employ Jedi mind tricks to win the manager over with your positivity about his/her facility – you’ll be surprised at what can be achieved!

3. If you’re still having little luck with this, we’d recommend reducing the total distance of each drill (that normally requires fins) by 50% - so if the program suggests 50 ‘6/1/6’ followed by 50 freestyle, do without fins as 25 ‘6/1/6’ followed by 75 freestyle. It’s not going to be as effective as with the fins (remember fins allow you to concentrate on key areas of your stroke like posture and alignment without having to worry too much about how hard you are kicking), but at least you get to practice some of the elements we are suggesting.

Of course, some of our sessions (namely the ‘Red Mist’ and the main set of a CSS session) don’t use equipment at all – in fact we actively discourage it – apart from the use of an unobtrusive Tempo Trainer Pro of course!

Yes, absolutely! Whilst yards work out to be about 250m less over a distance of 3000 compared to your meter-swimming counter-parts, you can still use the sessions “as is”. If you’re really keen, keep that distance of 250 per 3000 in your head and if the opportunity presents itself to add in an extra 200 or 2 x 100 efforts etc, then do so.

Yes, absolutely! In fact our MyCSS Calculator allows you to select whether you have a metric (meters) or imperial (yards) pool measure and even calculates your CSS pace per length whether you’re in a 20, 25, 33.3 or 50 meters or yards pool and then tells you what to set your Tempo Trainer Pro too – amazing!

In the past coaches have instructed swimmers to do what they call “hypoxic breathing sets” as a way of developing the athlete’s lung capacity. In essence this simply involves restricting the frequency of breathing by asking the swimmer to take more strokes before they breathe than they would ordinarily do. Our B3/5/7/3… pattern follows this same notion, however, what many swimmers do when they attempt this exercise is they’ll be actively holding onto their breath on the longer numbers for fear of running out of air. This is very bad. You should focus on this exercise being more about breath control and relaxation than on how big your lungs are. Exhale smoothly like you’re sighing and find that fine balance between swimming too quickly and running out of energy in a panic to get your next breath, and swimming too slowly that the rate of inhalation is really compromised.

Never be afraid in these exercises to take a couple of extra ‘cheat’ breaths as you see fit – the goal is not to be a hero here, but to gradually and safely develop your breathing pattern and exhalation / relaxation ability; plus, it makes it feel all the more better when you return to your usual breathing routine!

The ideal scenario on CSS “Test Day” when you ascertain your 400 and 200 times for the CSS Calculator is to also record a few more metrics as well. Ask a friend to get your finishing times for both distances but also your first 100 of your 400. During the 3rd 100 of your 400, ask your friend to count how many strokes (counting left and right) you are taking in a 15 second period and multiply this number by 4 to give you your “Base Stroke Rate” which will be used in some of the Technique sessions to refine your rhythm. Given the variability in stroke rate over different distances, the number you determine can be a close approximate as we will work within a range around this point anyway, often asking you to select your own stroke rate after having experienced a few above and below your base.

It’s very hard not to sound like a salesman here, but if there’s one piece of training kit that I’ve found to have had a massive impact on my own swimming over the last six or seven years, it is the Finis Tempo Trainer Pro. Besides offering you the ability to act like a virtual training partner set at your desired pace and helping you perfect the art of pacing and refine your stroke rate, it’s such a small unobtrusive device that it can be taken anywhere and you’ll never have a hard time from the lifeguards (especially in the UK) for using one! Get one, you won’t regret it.

Whilst some of our sessions don’t specifically feature a set Cool Down, that’s not to say you can’t do one if you’ve got time and feel like an extra loosen-up at the end of a session. We normally recommend 100 to 200 easy ‘choice’ and this can be anything from a bit of backstroke / breaststroke to fins or pull buoys – you decide!

It’s a funny one isn’t it – during training sessions we often spend up to 20-25 minutes steadily warming up and preparing our bodies just to perform intervals or drill sets at sub-threshold paces. However, when it comes to racing we often have good intentions of warming up properly but whether it’s because we’re just too busy and anxious rushing around or the course itself doesn’t permit you to swim before the gun goes off, very rarely do we get anywhere near this level of warm-up in! Consequently we wonder why we feel terrible at the start, struggling for air, unable to find a rhythm etc. This is where the classic “no-warm-up-Red-Mist” set comes in as it conditions you to get yourself mentally set before starting and then exercising a degree of control at the start to avoid going off too hard and blowing up / hurting yourself, but not so easy that you don’t make the turn-around times. This is a highly specific session and one which will really help condition you for the first 10 to 15 minutes of your race and then the subsequent knock-on effect thereafter!

Not every session you do has to be (or should be) super structured. Sometimes it’s nice (especially over short distances and/or in the warm-up) to simply interpret an adjective as you see fit on the day based on how you are feeling. Equally, we will sometimes not specify an exact rest period between technique or warm-up intervals for this same reason – it’s not super important and so long as you’re not hanging around and having a cup of tea between your single length drills, we’ll be OK with that!

If you can swim 400 continuous freestyle and have a CSS pace of <2:30/100 you should be able to perform the majority of the sessions in our various Training Plans. If your current level of ability is below this don’t panic, utilising the Learn-2-Swim materials, the Fault Fixers and the Tune Up Your Freestyle programs will assist.

We have taken every care to ensure that as broad a spectrum of athletes is catered for as possible within our Training Plans, just like within our Perth Squad. For example, in Perth we have four lanes in operation each completing the same session format, just completing subtly different distances within the hour session based upon their CSS speed. Here’s how that looks:

Lane 1 = CSS 1:44/100 to >2:10/100, covering 2,200 to 2,500 in a 1hr session Lane 2 = CSS 1:34/100 to 1:43/100, covering 2,600 to 3,000 in a 1hr session Lane 3 = CSS 1:29/100 to 1:33/100, covering 2,900 to 3,400 in a 1hr session Lane 4 = CSS 1:15/100 to 1:28/100, covering 3,200 to 3,600 in a 1hr session You might even like to visualise which lane you’d be in if you were over here swimming with us!

Within the Training Plans we often state “200 to 500” of a certain activity which is then reflected in the final Total at the end of the session. The 200 in this case would be Lane 1, the 500 for Lane 4. Lanes 2 and 3 would fall between these, but it’s very much dependent upon your time available. We only have an hour for most of our squad sessions – if you’re a Lane 1 swimmer who has 80 minutes available to them and wants to cover the same distance as the Lane 4 swimmers just at your specific pace, go ahead – be our guest! Likewise, if you wish to cut things back a bit to say 1600 to 1800 but maintain the same format, then by all means do so.

Some of you more advanced swimmers might like to see a little more distance within these sets, however, you’ll be very surprised by what you can achieve in just 1hr of super-specific training geared around your current CSS level, but certainly don’t be afraid to add in an extra round of intervals here and there if you fancy an extra challenge and are used to a little more distance. One thing I would say though is that you should view no one session like the “be-all and end-all” – it is the cumulative effect of consistent training that counts at the end of the day, so better off starting conservatively, completing the sessions “as is” and after 2 to 3 weeks, stepping things up then if you feel you are capable.