How-to guide
Running practice mode
Your phone or iPad becomes the timer for every lane. Each group runs on its own clock, every rep you tap is saved to the swimmer, and attendance happens as you go.
About 8 minutes
For coaches
Why this matters
Every rep you capture becomes part of the swimmer's history and feeds their meet predictions. A season of timed practices is what makes the projection on a swimmer's meet page worth trusting.
Step by step
- 01
Open Practice and choose who's in the pool
Tap Practice from the coach home. Pick the groups training right now. If two groups share the pool, both appear, color-coded, each with its own clock.
- 02
Put swimmers in lanes
Drag names into lanes or let the auto-fill do it by group. You can move anyone at any time, for example a sprinter into the distance lane for one set.
You'll know it worked when
Each lane lists the swimmers in it.
- 03
Start a group's clock when they leave
Each group has its own Start. Send the first group off and start theirs; when the second group leaves, start theirs. Pausing one group doesn't touch the other. The big button at the bottom acts on whichever group you have in focus.
- 04
Tap a swimmer as they touch
Their time for that rep is recorded against the set. You don't have to tap every rep of every set; do it on the sets where the times matter. The rep counter on each group follows its clock and the set's interval.
- 05
Use Fix rep when the deck gets ahead of the phone
If you started the clock late, or the group is on rep 6 while the phone says rep 4, tap Fix rep and choose the rep they're actually leaving on. Taps you already made in that set are recomputed against the corrected clock, so they turn back into real times instead of being lost. Choosing rep 1 restarts the set.
You'll know it worked when
The rep counter and the big clock both show the rep and time you'd expect.
- 06
Take attendance as you look around
Mark present, absent, or excused from the lane view. A swimmer who shows up late gets dropped into a lane and marked present with a late flag.
- 07
End practice
Tap End practice. You get a summary: attendance, sets completed, standout times. Everything is saved to each swimmer. Swimmers see their times on their Train tab, and parents see their own child's on Schedule.
Troubleshooting
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