10 Benefits of Swimming With Swim Goggles That Have a Built-in Display
With FORM being the first company to pioneer smart swim goggles - swimming goggles that feature an augmented reality display built into them - it would only be right for us to explain all the great benefits of having a display that you can see in your swim goggles while you swim.
In this article, we share ten great reasons why you should swim with our innovative technology!
1. See your data
It’s an obvious one, but being able to see your swim data live on the FORM goggles - generated by your swimming - is a total game changer. You can now understand your swimming in ways that were previously impossible, particularly by being able to attribute what your swimming feels like compared to a pace, stroke rate, heart rate, or your choice of any of the metrics you can choose to see when you swim, turn, and rest.
2. Push yourself
Upon establishing your benchmark swim data, swimming with a display can ensure that you push yourself when you’re in the water. Whether you choose to focus on different metrics each swim or prefer to focus solely on your split times, being able to see the metrics you want to focus on can give you the added target you need to push the boundaries of your performance.
3. Fight off boredom
A gripe we often hear from swimmers is how they get bored staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool. Well, that swim boredom disappears instantly with goggles with a display. Instantly, you will be more engaged with your swimming monitoring what you’re doing in the pool each lap, having your swim data to focus on. The laps and intervals will fly by with your FORM goggles on!
4. Track your real-time heart rate while swimming
OK, so this is a really groundbreaking one. With the introduction of our Smart Swim 2 goggles, which launched in April, you can now accurately track and see your heart rate in real-time, while you swim. Measured from your temporal artery and displayed on your FORM goggles, you can now accurately swim based on your heart rate zones - a real first of its kind.
5. Be coached, virtually
Whether you have a coach on the pool deck or not, seeing our HeadCoach™ skills on the FORM goggles display provides unprecedented technique feedback and helps you work on weaknesses in your stroke, including head position, peak head roll, time to neutral, and more. See and swim gamified drills to help coach you to instill new habits, leading to better body position and stroke mechanics.
6. Follow workouts and training plans, accurately
If structure is your thing, what better way to execute your training plans or workouts than by loading them onto your FORM goggles and being guided through them - including a rest countdown timer, so there’s no slacking off! Whether you have a remote coach who sends you sessions and plans, connect TrainingPeaks or TriDot accounts to access your workouts, or choose to make your workouts, we display them all!
7. FORM Score
Accurately measure your swim efficiency and monitor your progress every lap of the pool by seeing your FORM Score displayed on your goggles. Calculated every lap of freestyle you swim, your FORM Score can be viewed at the end of every lap. Your FORM Score indicates how fast and how far you move through the water with each stroke. Become a better, faster swimmer by monitoring your FORM Score.
8. Your open-water swim buddy
When it comes to open water swimming, not only do FORM goggles display all your key open water metrics, but they also give you something to focus on rather than letting your mind stray. Our goggles also provide unprecedented navigational assistance, displaying our SwimStraight™ digital compass - ensuring you stay on track, swim straighter, and have peace of mind in the open water.
9. Switch off and let us do the counting
We sympathize with you that before FORM came along, swimming involved a lot of memorization when it came to remembering how many lengths you swam. If you love to track what you swim, easily offload that mental math and have your times and totals tracked by us. See your cumulative data in our goggles, and shift your focus onto your technique, or what you’re going to have for dinner later!
10. Added motivation
Having your performance data displayed to you certainly provides that extra motivation, acting as a carrot dangling in front of you. If you’re looking to push yourself or swim with purpose, FORM goggles deliver that added motivation - whether it’s chasing your fastest times, improving your technique, or following a workout, accurately, we’ve got something for you to take your swimming to the next level!
