For Individual Swimmers
Getting started on your own
No team, or a team that isn't on Beyond the Blocks yet. You get an AI-built program, a place for every time you swim, meet predictions, and a profile you can share.
About 10 minutes
For swimmers training on their own schedule: masters swimmers, triathletes, high schoolers between club seasons, anyone with a pool and a goal. The AI writes your program from what you tell it and what you log.
Your first 10 minutes
In order. Pause and come back any time.
- 01
Sign up and pick 'I swim on my own'
At beyondtheblocks.io, tap Get Started. Email and password, then your name, birthday, and events. Your 14-day trial of AI Coached starts here with no card. When it ends you add a card from Billing if you want to keep the AI features; your times, bests, and goals are free forever.
- 02
Answer the setup questions
Your main events, current best times (a close guess is fine), how many days a week you swim, whether you lift, and how you sleep. This takes about three minutes and is the raw material for your first program.
You'll know it worked when
A two-week program appears on your Train tab.
- 03
Swim the first workout and log it
Open the workout, and as you swim enter the times you held on the sets that matter. Tap 'Finish workout' and say how it felt. Everything you log makes the next thing the AI says to you more specific.
- 04
Add your next meet
On the Meets tab, add the meet and pick your events. Predictions appear immediately for events you have data in, each with a swimmer bar and a line explaining how the number was built.
How to read a prediction → - 05
Set a goal for each event
If a prediction bar has no goal yet it says 'Set a goal'. Tap it and the goal form opens with the event filled in. Goals show up on your home page as progress bars from your baseline to your target.
- 06
Log sleep and food when you can
The home page has Log Sleep and Log Nutrition buttons. You can type a meal in plain words to the AI and it estimates the macros. Neither is required, but the daily coaching note on your home page uses both.
What each part does
Your program on the Train tab
Pool and gym sessions with real sets: distance, reps, intervals, strokes, and intensity zones, built for your events. Each session is a title bar you open. Rep times and a 'Finish workout' log live inside.
The daily note from Coach BTB
Every day your home page opens with a short read on where you are: yardage this week, how you've been sleeping, what to focus on. The weekly check-in on Sunday or Monday asks how the week felt and turns your answer into adjustments.
Meet predictions
Built from your meet swims and your timed practice reps in that event, with taper and trend baked in. The confidence wording is about how much data there is, never about your chances.
Read the full guide →Progression against the standards
On Me, the chart plots every meet swim in an event and can overlay the USA Swimming B through AAAA cuts for your age group, or for the next age group if you're about to move up.
Read the full guide →Practice times, meets, and bests
Every time you enter is kept. Personal bests update themselves when you log a faster meet swim. Practice sessions fold away behind one bar at the bottom of Me so the page stays short.
Billing
Billing is in the sidebar and under your name at the top right. It shows your plan, when the trial ends, and a button that opens your Stripe portal to add a card, change plans, or cancel.
Common questions
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