Periodized swimming training for solo swimmers, instructors and squads across freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and IM: 100+ technique drills with lane diagrams, Critical Swim Speed calculator with training zones, wall-clock rest timer, and live poolside rep timing with personal bests.
AURA Swim Coach — Freestyle, Back, Breast, Fly & IM Training With CSS Threshold & Live Timing
AURA Swimming Coach is an AI-powered training, periodization and poolside timing system built for competitive and fitness swimming. One sport holds five strokes — freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and individual medley — and a home water: 25m pool, 50m pool or open water. Solo swimmers, instructors with pupils and full squads share the same product: configure technical level (fundamentals, intermediate, advanced, competitor), age band and owned gear (kickboard, pull-buoy, short fins, paddles, snorkel, stopwatch), and AURA Coach designs a full-season periodized roadmap with metre-volume ceilings per session. A library of over one hundred technique drills covers starts, turns, catch and pull mechanics, kicking, breathing, aerobic base sets, CSS threshold series, race-pace rehearsals and sprint work — every drill mapped on normalized lane, pool and open-water vector diagrams with coaching cues and variations. The signature instrument is the Critical Swim Speed test: swim a maximal 400m plus a maximal 200m freestyle and the app computes the fastest pace holdable aerobically, then derives five personal training zones (recovery, base, threshold, VO2max, sprint) used by every later session. Poolside, a one-thumb rep logger times each swim with stroke, distance and time, folds live average and best paces per stroke, and banks personal bests by stroke and distance. Safety is structural: open water is teen and up only — youth open-water requests freeze back to the pool — threshold and sprint families are banned for child bands in the load tables and the validator, and apnea work always assumes a buddy on deck.
Why use AURA Swimming Coach
Freestyle, back, breast, fly and IM share teams, staff, season pass and register; 25m, 50m and open-water modes steer drill selection, metre budgets and frozen race rules without forking the product.
Starts, turns, catch mechanics, kicking, breathing, aerobic sets, threshold series and sprints with vector diagrams, metre budgets, coaching points and variations, from kids games to monster 30x100 sets.
Maximal 400 plus 200 freestyle computes the aerobic pace ceiling; five training zones derive from it automatically, so every squad member trains at personal speeds from one test.
One-thumb rep logging of stroke, distance and time with live per-stroke pace, technique averages for tests, and personal bests banked by stroke and distance across the season.
How to train swimming and time sets with AURA Coach
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Set up your swimmer, pupils or squad
Pick solo, instructor or squad mode, choose technical level, age band, home water (25m, 50m or open) and owned gear from kickboard to stopwatch.
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Schedule weekly pool slots
Select practice days and session length; the periodization engine builds mesocycles with metre budgets matched to age and level.
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Test CSS and generate sessions
Swim the 400+200 CSS test to calibrate personal zones, then open any calendar slot for an AURA AI session with lane diagrams.
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Time sets and collect personal bests
Log races and test sets poolside rep by rep, review per-stroke pace, and watch personal bests accumulate by stroke and distance.
Frequently asked questions
Which strokes does AURA Swimming Coach cover?
Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and individual medley, in 25m pools, 50m pools and open water. The home water is chosen once per team and steers which drills are selectable, which metre budgets apply, and which distances freeze onto a race.
What is the CSS test and how do training zones work?
Critical Swim Speed is the fastest pace a swimmer can theoretically hold aerobically, computed as (400m time minus 200m time) divided by two per 100m, from two maximal freestyle trials with full recovery between. Five zones derive from it — recovery, base, threshold, VO2max, sprint — and the dashboard shows the pace range of each. Retest every 6 to 8 weeks.
Is open-water training safe for young swimmers?
Open water is teen and up by construction: the age-band tables and the session validator exclude open-water drills for child and preteen bands, and the server-side race rules freeze any youth open-water request back to the pool. Apnea sets always assume a buddy watching from the lane.
What does a timed test report contain?
Every logged rep with stroke, distance, time and pace per 100m, totals in metres and reps, average and best pace overall and per stroke, and personal bests by stroke and distance banked across finals. The finished report saves once to the team; live logging syncs between coach and assistant during the set.
How much does AURA Swimming Coach cost?
The first generated session for a new team is free. After that, sessions and timed tests cost AuraCoins at live spot price, or the existing EUR 12.99 one-time AURA Coach season pass covers unlimited generation and timing for that team for 365 days — the same pass every other coaching sport uses.