The Impact of FORM Smart Goggles on Coaches in Enhancing Athlete Performance

Incorporating FORM goggles into athletes' training routines is often hailed for its potential to boost performance, but the advantages it brings to coaches working with these athletes are frequently overlooked. The ability to analyze accurate and comprehensive metrics after a swim session, accessible through training peaks, WKO, and detailed CSV files immediately post-swim, has revolutionized the way coaches approach their work in the realm of swimming.

Athletes now have an enhanced ability to precisely follow their coach's workouts, both in terms of volume and intensity. This precision has led to significant performance gains by adhering to physiological, biomechanical, and scientifically sound coaching principles. Coaches who have embraced this metrics-focused approach report improvements over time that surpass the typical gains seen without the use of FORM goggles. 

FORM goggles empower coaches with a science and performance-focused mindset to test, assess, and monitor performance gains over time. By concentrating on key limiters during focused training sessions and monitoring these limiters for improvements, coaches can maintain a focused and measurable approach to data collection. This strategy prevents complacency and keeps both athletes and coaches concentrated on achieving desired results.

The ability to monitor various metrics, such as stroke rate, stroke length, strokes per length, rotation, head position, and pace, has opened up a world of training possibilities. More than one-third of all USAT level 3 coaches have incorporated FORM goggles into their daily coaching routines. This technology not only aids coaches in refining training sessions but also allows athletes to seamlessly transition gains made in the pool to open water environments.

Nationally recognized performance coach and USA Triathlon presenter, Justin Trolle, recently expressed his enthusiasm, stating, "In my 30 years of coaching, nothing from a technological perspective has propelled swimming forward as much as FORM has. The combination of real-time feedback to the swimmer and post-workout analysis of training data for the coach is a game changer. We are witnessing major performance gains day in and day out in training in a way that was never possible before FORM."

In conclusion, while FORM goggles are recognized for their impact on athletes' performance, their transformative effects on coaches and coaching methodologies should not be underestimated. The integration of accurate and detailed metrics has elevated coaching practices, leading to unprecedented gains in performance and fundamentally changing the landscape of swim training.