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At TritonWear, we strive to go beyond just tracking data. We are dedicated to enhancing the user experience by automating data analysis and providing the actionable insights you need to create faster swimmers. Our goal is to help swim teams, coaches, and athletes better understand their data.
In this article, you will learn how to use Triton Score and Focus to assess your swimmers' training performance by providing a clear image of the quality of your swimmers' skills. You'll know exactly how they're swimming from wall to wall. Let's dig in!
The Activity feed on the app shows the average Triton Score for all your swimmers for that specific practice or workout. This average score shows how well your group trained overall, the goal is to hit a score above 75 on every workout. A higher score means a better training session. This is done by ranking training performance in the 3 critical pillars for improvement in every workout: Readiness, Focus, and Intensity.
The Readiness score helps keep your athletes' bodies healthy. It calculates how much the volume of training changed and shows your athletes' training status and injury risk to assess their readiness to train.
Readiness score ranges from 0-100.
If the score is hitting 90 or higher, you are increasing training at an optimal rate. The goal is to keep the Readiness Score between 90-100, where you are maximizing improvement while staying ‘Safe.’
The Focus score summarizes how well your swimmers executed their technical skills compared to a benchmark of their own past performances. Skill execution is not just important during tests sets, true behavioral change in the water happens when swimmers focus on their skills every practice, every set, every meter.
With Focus you'll know if your athletes' skills are improving over the season and learn where you need to focus your attention to help improve your swimmers most.
The Focus Score ranges from 0-100.
If your athletes' scores are hitting 75 or higher, they’re improving their technique at an optimal rate. When comparing to others, a score above 75 means their skill execution is better than others of similar gender, height and speed.
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The Intensity score is calculated by using metrics like distance, active time vs rest time and swim intensity (swim speed). TritonWear uses AI to set an average of the athletes' usual distance, active time and swim intensity and adjusts this average as they improve or train harder.
The Intensity score ranges from 0-100.
If the score is hitting 75 or higher, you have increased distance, active time or swim intensity. Swimmers we'll receive personalized recommendations that indicate what exactly caused a spike in Intensity. Keep in mind, that while intense training promotes fitness gains, it’s crucial to maintain a balance between intense workouts and recovery.
When interpreting the Intensity score, it is also best to review the Readiness and Focus Scores. A consistently high-intensity training may put athletes at a higher risk for injury and may also affect their ability to hold technique.
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The Members' view on the app shows you each swimmers' tile and their individual Triton score. Use this to:
For this example, we used a swimmer whose Triton Score and Focus were the lowest. So, what does the score say about this swimmer’s skill execution for this practice? 52 is the swimmer's average Focus score, an average taken from the stroke scores, as shown on the left of the circle plot (Butterfly 61, Backstroke 60, Breaststroke 59 and Freestyle 51). This is not a straight average but rather a weighted average as most practices will be spent doing more freestyle than other strokes.
In this given workout the swimmer swam Butterfly more efficiently than the rest of the strokes, but is scoring under 75 and is still far away from improving his skills in all 4 stroke types.
On the Focus dashboard, you can toggle between the Myself and Like Me scores for each metric. Every metric correlates to a part of your athlete's swimming technique. The Myself comparison shows how they’re improving technique day to day. The Like Me comparison shows how their skills measure against the competition. It considers swimmers of the same speed, height and gender.
Here the app shows the different swim phases each stroke type is broken into underwater, overwater and transitions. This shows what part of your athlete's swimming you need to focus on right away to help them make the biggest gains.
In this analysis, the swimmer needs to work on the underwaters for freestyle to match the competition, specifically his Underwater Time and Percent Underwater. The takeaway is to work on maintaining his Underwater Speed while increasing Time and Percent Underwater. As a coach, you can use real-time data during workouts to find the optimal break-out for this swimmer. You can do this by testing out a different number of underwater dolphin kicks (2,4,6) and looking at the tradeoff between Speed Underwater and Time Underwater or Speed Underwater and Speed Overwater. You can do this by choosing any combination of input and output metrics for any stroke, swimming phase or metric.
Next, learn: How to master these 6 swimming metric tradeoffs to swim faster now!
Alexandra Petala is the Content Marketing Manager at TritonWear. Before joining TritonWear, Alexandra had created her own company delivering freelance services for lead generation. She also served as the Growth Manager at Just' Geter Done. A former swimming coach and Greek National Champion herself with over 20 years of experience in competitive swimming. Alexandra graduated from the Empire State University with a degree in Business Economics and Marketing.
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