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ZWIM Smart Trainer
Swim training at home, powered by your stroke
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Swim training at home, powered by your stroke
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Your stroke is the game controller. Train on land with ZWIM Smart Paddles and resistance bands. See power and efficiency combine into Propulsive Watts as you move through the game. Review your sessions and keep training between pool days. Available to pre-order; current pricing and estimated dispatch dates are on zwim.com.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Victor, co-founder of ZWIM with Charlotte.
In 2018, I had a panic attack about 200 metres into my first triathlon. I was fit on the bike and could run. In the swim, I wondered whether I belonged.
The advice was to "just swim more". But with work and pool opening hours, two swims was a good week. Every visit felt like starting over.
When lockdown closed the pools, Charlotte and I filled our small flat with prototypes for a swim trainer we could use at home. That became ZEN8, our first trainer.
Our customers helped us see what to build next: feedback on the stroke, and something that made you want to come back. They even gave us the name. They called their sessions "Zwims".
We eventually left our jobs, sold our home and moved to Lisbon to build the connected version.
That's the ZWIM Smart Trainer we're sharing today.
You train the propulsion phase of your stroke on land. You lie on the ZWIM Bench 2.0, with ZWIM Smart Paddles connected to resistance bands. The paddles measure each arm separately. Power and efficiency combine into Propulsive Watts, which drives your swimmer through the game. Your stroke is the controller.
Change your stroke and you see the number respond. Afterwards, you can review your sessions and personal bests.
I grew up playing ice-hockey and gaming. I loved having something to come back for. We want swim training to have that same draw, especielly for those coming into it late in life, alongside the pool sessions where you work on breathing, rotation and your feel for the water.
We're taking pre-orders while our manufacturing partners work on tooling and the final production design. Current pricing and estimated dispatch dates are on zwim.com before you order.
If this is the training you've been missing, you can back what we're building by pre-ordering. I'd also love to hear: what would you need to see before making ZWIM part of your week?
Victor