SwimSet

Warm-up, main set, cool-down. Type in the reps and it keeps the running total, works out your send-offs against the clock, and prints a sheet you can read on the pool deck. No login, no plan to follow. You write it, you swim it.

Build your own →

New to swimming? Zero to 1K, 8 weeks from a few lengths to a kilometre.

A pace clock. It’s here because every pool has one.

Starters

Five sessions to begin from. Tap one and it drops into the builder, then change whatever you like.

On your wrist

A set you can't take to the pool is just a note. SwimSet gets it onto your Garmin.

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Today

Garmin file

Every set exports as a real .FIT workout, copy it to your watch and it runs in Garmin's native workout player, strokes and send-offs included.

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Today

Share it

Send a set as a link or a clean image card, lane mates open it, tweak it, swim it. No accounts anywhere.

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Live now

Watch app

SwimSet on the watch itself: guided rep-by-rep swimming, automatic length counting and a send-off buzz on your wrist. Free on the Connect IQ Store — build a set, tap Watch code, paste it into the app's settings.

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Phone app

Build on your phone, tap once, and the set is waiting the next time you open SwimSet on the watch, even if you sent it from the sofa.

Get the free watch app Free on the Garmin Connect IQ Store

If you've never written a set

Most go warm-up, a short sharpener, the main set, then a cool-down. That's the whole shape, the rest is detail.

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Warm-up

Wake up

Easy swimming, a little kick and some drills to find your stroke. Usually 15-25% of the session, all low zones.

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Pre-set

Build speed

Short, sharp efforts, builds, descends or technique work, to bridge the gap before the main set. Optional, but it sharpens you.

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Main set

The point

The reason you got in: endurance, threshold or sprint work. Where the send-offs matter and most of the distance sits.

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Cool-down

Bring it down

Easy, loose swimming to flush the legs and arms. A few hundred metres of recovery to finish, never skip it.

Effort zones

How hard, in plain terms

Whiteboard shorthand

Reading a set

8 × 100: eight reps of 100m on 1:40: leave every 1:40 build: get faster across the rep descend 1-4: each rep faster negative split: 2nd half faster IM: fly, back, breast, free pull: arms only, with a buoy kick: legs only, on a board

Session for you

Three questions, one set. No login, nothing saved anywhere but here.