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For the parents on the pool deck
Support their swimming dream.
Built by swim parents, for swim parents. SwimTrack turns scattered times, heat sheets, and qualifying cuts into one clear story of your swimmer's progress — so you can celebrate the right things and find the right words after a tough swim.
You have questions.
- When does my kid swim today?
- Was that a personal best?
- Is that a good time for their age?
- Why are they swimming slower lately?
- What should I say after a tough meet?
- How does SCM compare to LCM? What do those even mean?
- What should they eat before training?
- Should they specialize in one stroke yet?
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What we cover
Coaches lead. We fill in common gaps.
Your coach owns what happens on the pool deck — training, technique, race strategy. We cover the four things that happen everywhere else, and often get left to Google.
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Understand the mental side
Sport psychology in plain language — for the swimmer and for you. Pre-race nerves, taper anxiety, what to say after a tough swim, and the long emotional arc of being a swim family.
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Understand good nutrition
What to feed them before a session, between heats, and after a hard meet. Backed by sport science.
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Understand your next meet
Logistics, expectations, and mindset — for this meet and this swimmer. How to prep the week before, how to settle the morning nerves, and how to handle a swim that fell short. (We've been there.)
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Understand the development arc
What matters at 10 vs 13 vs 16. The 12-to-13 plateau. When to add a practice — and when to subtract one. The long view, not the next 25.
For meet weekends
Race Ready — the meet-weekend PDFs.
Built from your swimmer's results. One pre-meet PDF, one post-meet — honest reads, plain language, delivered to your inbox for the kid you actually have.
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RACE READY
Liam McIntosh · AC Sintra · Lane 4, Heat 3 · seed 2:40.12
The morning of the meet, in plain language.
Liam swims the 200 fly first today — heat 3, lane 4. His seed is 2:40.12, mid-pack for the field. His season best is 2:38.14 (Lisbon, January). A swim around 2:39 would be a solid practice race. A 2:36 would be a meaningful PB.
He's usually quieter than normal on meet mornings. That's the part of taper that shows up at the breakfast table, not in the pool. It isn't worry.
When to be quiet
The 15 minutes before the heat. He'll be listening to the coach. Walking into the venue. The bathroom queue before the call room.
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a read on the race, not just splits.
what to say in the morning, in your words.
What to expect, what to say in the morning, when to step back.
RACE READY
Liam McIntosh · AC Sintra · Final time 2:38.91 · 405 WA
The drive home from a 2:38.91.
He finished 0.77 off his PB, and well inside noise. Pool conditions today were average; the warm-up was cut short by 6 minutes. This isn't a regression. If you compare same-pool, same-event, same time of season, it's a small step forward.
If he brings it up first, listen. If he doesn't, don't lead with it. The post-mortem doesn't have to happen in the car.
When to wait
Wait until he's eaten. The real debrief rarely happens straight after the race, and he'll usually start the talk himself.
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what the time actually means today.
the language for the drive home.
What worked, what didn't, what to bring to the next meet.
Three things to know
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Built by a swim parent.
Rex McIntosh, Sintra. Father of an 11-year-old who swims for AC Sintra. This is the product I wished existed.
— Rex McIntosh, Sintra
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The reading library
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Mindset
What's actually happening in that pre-race routine?
Behind the blocks, some swimmers run a little sequence: a few sharp breaths, a small burst of movement, a specific spot to stand. It looks strange from the stands. It isn't superstition. It's a nervous system being told, on purpose, what state to be in.
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Parent Role
What this sport actually asks of your family
Nobody hands you the real syllabus when your kid joins a competitive team — the early mornings, the weekend meets, the calendar that starts revolving around a pool. It's worth naming honestly what you're signing up for, so you can decide on purpose instead of drifting into it.
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Training & Development
How many practices is normal? A hedged answer, by age
Every parent eventually compares notes with another swim family and starts wondering if their own kid is training too little, or too much. There's a rough, widely shared range by age — and a hard limit on how useful comparing schedules with the family at the next table actually is.