In today’s installment of Meet My 2024 Partners, I’m beyond excited to introduce you to FORM smart swim goggles. First, some back story. I didn’t grow up swimming; I was firmly placed in the “non-drowning” category. I didn’t do my first lap or side breathing until well into adulthood. I suffered from what Lionel Sanders called “adult onset” swimming.” 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).

Then I discovered FORM smart swim goggles in 2021 and my swimming life has never been the same. FORM 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.

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’ve done. No more wondering if you got any better today.

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 display 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’s USAT, WT, and Ironman legal!), just like we use our bike head units and smartwatches for biking and running in training and racing, respectively.

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 it frequently during a swim workout. The heads-up display tells you exactly what you need to do.

And the most recent addition to the FORM platform is even more groundbreaking, what they call Head Coach. FORM’s technology now offers metrics 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 provides real-time feedback in the heads-up display on whether you’re optimizing your swim in these three areas, so you can make the necessary adjustments as you swim.

As you can imagine, my #s for the three technical areas were darned low (head looking down too much, 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 weeks 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.

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.

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, FORM smart swim goggles are game changers and must-haves for every committed swimmer and triathlete.

So, if you want to take your swimming to a new level, I encourage you to check out FORM swim goggles first.

And check out all of my Partners on my website to learn more about these amazing companies.

Disclaimer: I gain no direct financial benefit from your buying my partners’ products. I partner with and support these companies because I believe in them and am confident that you would benefit from what they have to offer as well.