MySwimPro: #1 Swim Workout App

Let’s be honest, for many of us, our best competitive swimming years are behind us. Whether you’re a beginner, returning to the pool after taking years off, or in a master’s swim program - no doubt you need accountability, coaching, motivation and structure. Not only does this platform come with great pre-built swim plans and ability to build customized libraries - you get coaching through blogs and videos from swim experts. And if that weren’t enough, it connects you with a truly global swim community with some really awesome and humble people encouraging each other everyday. Using the watch in the water keeps you going and pushes you - better than your old coach yelling from the side of the pool! The stats and visuals are phenomenal. I’m amazed at how far I have progressed just following the pre-built plans. I have one paid app on my phone - it’s this one. But I don’t think of this as an app - because it isn’t. It is a complete support platform for people who swim. PS: tech will have issues from time to time - it’s the responsiveness of the team that matters. I’ve never had a tech issue that didn’t get resolved fully and ASAP.

I use this app with my Apple watch 3. It automatically tracks all my lap swimming including what stroke I am doing. You have to input the kick sets yourself, but that is easily done. Seems to be very accurate, maybe off by 25 yards once in a while in a 3000 to 4000 yard workout. That’s not a big deal for me. My workouts automatically get uploaded to Strava. Call me vain, but that gets me to work out even harder! I’ve used MySwimPro for open water three times. It definitely tracks the yardage and route. I thought there was a problem with it uploading my swim, but that’s only because my watch was in airplane mode. The Apple Watch goes into airplane mode when you switch your phone into that mode. But the watch doesn’t come out unless you take it out of airplane mode on the watch itself. This is totally unrelated to the MySwimPro app. Definitely sign up for emails; the weekly how-to and technique videos are really well done and helpful. All in all I highly recommend this app, definitely better than just the Apple Watch software.

High School was a long time ago for me, but I loved the swim team! My daughter has been swimming for high school too and I’ve always loved watching her! So when a gym with a pool opened up close by I signed up before they finished building it. The first month was killer, but I got my old strokes back and can now survive a good long 2,000 yard swim comfortably. For Christmas my wife got me an Apple Watch 4. To my amazement and delight, the basic watch can keep track of my distance AND my strokes! To my more amazement and delight I came across MySwimPro which works seamlessly with my watch! I’ve done a few workouts and through MySwimPro I’ve realized things have drastically changed since 1987! It’s like learning to swim all over again and I love it! Since I’ve started using MySwimPro I am within 5 seconds of my fastest 50 free in high school! Can’t wait to beat it and my school IM and Breaststroke records as well! And this is at age 50! Here’s to swimming and my personal MySwimPro coach! One of the best investments I’ve ever made for myself! You’ll love it too!!

I’ve been using MSP for about 4 months, swimming 3 times per week usually. The training plans are excellent. Having the workouts loaded on my Apple Watch so the watch can keep track of intervals is really helpful. Using the app has helped my swimming a lot. That said, I’ve encountered a few bugs. There have been issues with dynamic interval times that I’ve entered being overwritten. Other users have experienced the same. When this occurs it messes up the workout on my watch. I’ve been in touch with support but the issue still hasn’t been resolved after about a month. I’ve also had issues loading training plan workouts onto my watch if I modify them. It takes several tries for the modifications to show up on the watch for some reason. Some of the workouts have links to videos that only work intermittently. I still use the app every time I swim and I still find it helpful, but sometimes it can be frustrating to get it working properly.

I am a 55 year old former college swimmer who had been out of the water for over 30 years. I was too intimidated to try Masters in my seriously out of shape body. I found this app by searching the App Store. I loved the workouts and that I could set my skill level. I loved the technique/drill videos as I had forgotten a lot of those. I quickly went premium. I got up the nerve to join Masters only to have the coordinator move away several months later. So there is no Masters program near me now. Not to worry, because I have the app! I stick mainly to the Workout of the Day but there are workouts for each stroke and an IM workout and kicking workouts. I took my phone in a ziplock bag to the pool deck and followed the workout that way. Last Christmas I bought the Apple Watch and I now can look at my wrist and follow the workout. It’s a win, win, win!!!!