{"id":17630,"date":"2025-03-17T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:00:42","slug":"meet-my-partners-for-2025-form-smart-swim-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/meet-my-partners-for-2025-form-smart-swim-goggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet My Partners for 2025: FORM Smart Swim Goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today\u2019s installment of Meet My 2025 Partners, I\u2019m beyond excited to introduce you to\u00a0FORM smart swim goggles<\/strong><\/a>. First, some back story. I didn\u2019t grow up swimming; I was firmly placed in the \u201cnon-drowning\u201d category. I didn\u2019t do my first lap or side breathing until I was well into \"\"adulthood. I suffered from what Lionel Sanders called \u201cadult onset\u201d swimming.\u201d As a result, through my two Ironmans, multiple 70.3, and many shorter races, I always struggled to improve and never enjoyed getting in the pool (much less open water).<\/p>\n

Then I discovered FORM smart swim goggles in 2021, and my swimming life has never been the same.\u00a0FORM goggles have a heads-up display in one of its lenses that provides real-time swim data including distance, pace, time, splits, heart rate, and much more.<\/p>\n

No more looking at the clock before and after every interval or calculating and forgetting every interval split. No more trying to remember how many laps you\u2019ve done. No more wondering if you got\"\" any better today.<\/p>\n

FORM smart swim goggles offer many additional benefits for swimmers and triathletes: 1) post-swim analytics including lap times and pace, DPS, SWOLF, stroke rate, and much more; 2) automatic syncing with your training platform (e.g., TrainingPeaks), 3) training plans and workouts for every type and level of swimmer; 4) my favorite: the ability to input your own custom workouts that you can follow in the HUD\u00a0display while you swim; and 5) with selected Garmin and Apple watches, FORM goggles can provide most of the same data in open water to provide real-time data in open-water swims, of particular benefit in races (and it\u2019s USAT, WT, and Ironman legal!), just like we use our bike head units and smartwatches for biking and running in training and racing, respectively.<\/p>\n

A very helpful new development from FORM makes it possible to automatically upload swim workouts from TrainingPeaks directly to the goggles. No more writing down swim workouts, putting them in a baggie (that always leaks), and having to look at\u00a0it frequently during a swim workout. The heads-up display tells you exactly what you need to do.<\/p>\n

And the most recent addition to the FORM platform is even more groundbreaking, what they call Head Coach. FORM\u2019s technology now offers\u00a0metrics that evaluate three key contributors to effective swimming: head pitch, head roll, and time to neutral. The FORM app scores your swim in these three areas and allows you to chart your progress over time. Even more valuable, the FORM goggles provide real-time feedback in the heads-up display on whether you\u2019re optimizing your swim in these three areas, so you can make the necessary adjustments as you swim.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, my #s for the three technical areas were darned low (head looking down too\u00a0much, head turning too far out of the water with each breath, slow time to neutral; see image to the right). But over the last several years that I have been using Head Coach during my swim workouts, I have seen a steady improvement in these metrics and, amazingly, faster times in my speed work.<\/p>\n

What I particularly love about FORM is that the company is constantly innovating, creating new technology that makes swimming more productive and enjoyable. And what I especially appreciate about FORM is that they are dragging swimming into the 21st<\/sup> century, kicking and screaming it seems, long after cycling and running.<\/p>\n

In sum, FORM has solved most of the problems that can make swimming difficult, boring, and unproductive. Imagine not having a smartwatch for running or a head unit for cycling; inconceivable! For me, FORM goggles are no different.<\/p>\n

Not only have I improved significantly since using FORM goggles, but I actually enjoy swimming now and look forward to getting in the pool for my swim workouts. I also find FORM goggles to be very motivating and just plain fun. In my view,\u00a0FORM smart swim goggles<\/a>\u00a0are game changers and must-haves for every committed swimmer and triathlete.<\/p>\n

So, if you want to take your swimming to a new level, I encourage you to check out\u00a0FORM swim goggles <\/a>first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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