Katie Marr provides 8 tips for achieving swimming competition success using data-tracking technology TritonWear: (1) Start preparing right away to have maximum time to analyze data and make improvements; (2) Check data regularly and involve swimmers and parents to find insights; (3) Know all performance metrics to understand strengths and weaknesses; (4) Compare metrics to elite swimmers to guide technique perfection; (5) Iteratively test improvement strategies and be prepared to change approaches. The presentation concludes with a question and answer section.

1. 8 Tips for Achieving
Competition
Success
Host:
Katie
Marr

2. Meet The Host
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1. Marketer extraordinaire
2. Previously a swimmer, coach,
swim parent and board member
3. Competed during the Joanne
Molar & Mark Tewksbury era
4. Swam in a charity relay across
Lake Huron in 2001

3. 1. 8 tips to help you prepare for
competition season
2. How TritonWear can be used to
your advantage
3. Q & A
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What we’ll cover

4. ● Starting at the beginning of the season is best
○ Provides the most possible time to
analyze data and impact change
● Making improvements consistently takes
time
○ If this process is started too late, the
approach may not be perfected in
time
○ Expect to course correct as you
iterate strategies and testing, this
needs to be done well ahead of
taper season
● Collect data for about 2-3 months before
starting to glean any findings, then it takes
time to change behaviour.
○ Progress isn’t typically noticeable for
3-4 months
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1. Start Right Away
Success is simple.
Do what’s right,
the right way,
at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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2. Check your data regularly
● Collecting data from every practice makes it easy to notice performance changes
○ Using TritonWear Live during practice puts data at your fingertips, to provide
immediate feedback between reps and sets, quickly implementing change
○ Better still is projecting results to large screen swimmers can see. It speaks to
their competitive nature, wanting improvements on the board with each rep
or set
● Get athletes into a routine of checking data a few times a week minimum, and
bringing feedback to each practice
○ As a coach, you will never have enough time to dig into each swimmer’s data
on your own, the swimmer has to participate to see improvements
■ Keeps them engaged in their own progress, and accountable for
their own performance
■ Spend a little time with each athlete at the end of practice; give them
direction on what to look for, then assign homework to return with
insights you can work on together next practice
○ If the swimmers are younger (10-13), involve the parents as well - get them to
help their kids look at Tritonwear Insights to find the insights you can use in
practice - make it a daily homework task
Data will talk to you,
if you’re willing to listen.
- Jim Bergeson
Torture the data, and it
will confess to anything
- Ronald Caose

6. Without data,
you’re just
another person
with an opinion.
- W.Edwards Deming
● Stroke Counts, Splits, and Breath Counts are the
low hanging fruit to correct
○ if a specific length or stroke consistently
returns an unexpected value, it’s easy to
identify and correct this
○ These metrics don’t always show where
to affect change on the underlying
techniques
● The key to improving is to get familiar with the
lesser-known metrics
○ Stroke Index, Distance Per Stroke,
Stroke Rate, Turn Times, Push-off
Strength and Time Underwater
○ Offer a deeper understanding, and
make a larger difference in changing
performance outcomes
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3. Know ALL your numbers

7. Build on your
strengths, work
on your weaknesses
- Minh Tan
● Understand the athletes physical and mental
state
○ Is endrance high or low
○ Is there enough strength to carry a high
DPS
○ How long can they sustain an
underwater pull out or kick without
losing speed
○ Will a drastic strategy change be
successful, or are smaller incremental
changes better
○ Is self perception in line with actual skill
level
● Understand how the numbers correlate to
performance
○ Noticing changes in these numbers will
highlight areas to focus on when testing
new strategies
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4. Understand Strengths and Weaknesses

8. Today is a great day to behave
as the person you’ve always
wanted to be
- Robin Sharma
● Compare athlete performances against races
swam by world class athletes, to see how they
stack up
● TritonWear gives athletes and coaches access to
every elite match-up we have analyzed
● Understanding how the pros differ can provide
direction on perfecting techniques to compete at
that level
● These races can be used to compare performance
of an individual athlete against the entire hero
race, or against just one or two chosen heros with
similar swimming styles
● Becomes a great motivational tool to show
athletes where they excel, and where they need to
focus on improving to qualify for the big meets
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5. Compare to Pros

9. Strategize a plan to improve
1. Come up with several theories to improve each identified weak point
2. Set expectation that there will be testing of all theories regardless of progress made
with each
3. Introduce incremental changes to technique, to see if a theory is working
4. Be prepared to drop strategies early if targets aren’t being met
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6. Optimize Weak Points
The most dangerous phrase
in the language is “we’ve
always done it this way.”- Unknown

10. A goal should scare you a
little and excite you a lot.
- Joe Vitale
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7. Set Realistic Goals
● Set short and long term targets
○ Short term: swam wins for
motivation
○ Long term: actual competition
ready state
● Find a balance between setting stretch
goals and setting the bar too high to
be achievable
● Keep it challenging but attainable, so
motivation is maintained
● Use SMART goal setting technique
○ Specific, Measurable,
Attainable, Realistic, Timely

11. ● Every athlete is different, so
don’t expect one strategy to
work for all athletes
● Iteratively test your plans
along the way, to see what
works for your athletes’
swimming style, physical
strengths, and weaknesses.
● Use consistent, frequent test
sets to easily identify changes
in performance
● Let the data guide changes -
data will lie to you if you
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8. Test your Strategies
Failure is the
opportunity to
begin again, more
intelligently.
- Henry Ford

12. Train Smarter with TritonWear
Collect and track all data simultaneously
We validate our accuracy and reliability by analyzing the
data against tens of thousands of video recorded
sessions – we optimize our algorithms to real-world
values. We are currently more than 4 times more
accurate than the next best competitor and always
getting better!
Metrics Collected
Accurate Data
Stroke Type
Splits
Speed
Stroke Count
Pace Time
Distance Per Stroke (DPS)
Stroke Index
Stroke Rate
Time Underwater
Breath Count
Push-Off Force
Turn Time
more accurate
than the next top
competitor
4X
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13. Personalized, unbiased feedback for each athlete
Look at general trends by viewing high level data
grouped at the rep, set and workout levels. Or, drill
down to analyze every length in detail for incremental
adjustments.
Dive into the data
The mobile app displays the activity of all athletes
wearing the units simultaneously. Each athlete’s
information updates in real-time throughout the
workout.
Simultaneous Tracking
Train Smarter with TritonWear
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14. Personal profiles increase engagement and motivation
Compare athletes on your team against each other or
against pro athletes from around the world to learn
from the best.
Learn from the pros
Overlay set data from different workouts to pinpoint an
athlete’s improvements. The results will answer
questions such as: is speed increasing while maintaining
stroke count; are turn times faster; is underwater time
increasing?
Easy test set reporting
Train Smarter with TritonWear
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15. 1. Start preparing right away
2. Check the data regularly (make it a routine)
3. Know your numbers
4. Understand strengths and weaknesses
5. Compare yourself to the pros
6. Optimize weak points
7. Set realistic targets
8. Test your strategies
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Recap

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