Swim practice planning, for whoever writes it.
Write the practice the way you already write it. SwimScript reads the shorthand, adds up the yardage as you type, estimates how long the session runs, and prints a one-page sheet that looks like the Word document you have been handing out for years.
The demo needs no account. Drop one of your own .docx practices onto
the page and it is opened, read and counted straight away. Three practices are kept for you, and
they follow you in if you make an account later.
Left is what the coach types. Right is what comes out of the printer.
This is one of the twelve real practices SwimScript's parser is tested against, transcribed from the Word document it arrived in. Nothing about the notation has been simplified to make it easier to read.
W/U w Fins: 200 mixer (50 free/ 50 non-free 200 kick (4th & 8th 25's=fast 200 im drill -or- your choice 200 pull (dps Pre-set: w/fins 4 * 75 @ 1:15 50 Swim/ 25 Kick; (o) smooth (e) build 4 * 50 @ 1:00 25 Swim/ 25 Kick; (o) smooth (e) build 4 * 25 @ :30 ":08 second sprints" = sprint to 2nd flag 50 easy Main-set: (adjust intervals as needed) 3 * (150- Str/Free x 25; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 3:30 1 MR 3 * (100-Str/Free x 25; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 2:40 1 MR 3 * (50-Stroke; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 2:00 Closer: Pull -or- Kick (fins opt.) -or- P&F 3 * 200 @ :20 sr (negative split x 100) Loosen down
Masters Swimming
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
*Focus= Active Rest.
W/U w Fins:
200 mixer (50 free/ 50 non-free
200 kick (4th & 8th 25's=fast
200 im drill -or- your choice
200 pull (dps
(800)
Pre-set: w/fins
4 * 75 @ 1:15 50 Swim/ 25 Kick; (o) smooth (e) build
4 * 50 @ 1:00 25 Swim/ 25 Kick; (o) smooth (e) build
4 * 25 @ :30 ":08 second sprints" = sprint to 2nd flag
50 easy
(650/1450)
Main-set: (adjust intervals as needed)
3 * (150- Str/Free x 25; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 3:30
1 MR
3 * (100-Str/Free x 25; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 2:40
1 MR
3 * (50-Stroke; desc.1-3 + 50 easy) @ 2:00
(1350/2800)
Closer: Pull -or- Kick (fins opt.) -or- P&F
3 * 200 @ :20 sr (negative split x 100)
(600/3400)
Loosen down
- W/U w Fins 800 yd 800 so far
- Pre-set 650 yd 1,450 so far
- Main-set 1,350 yd 2,800 so far
- Closer 600 yd 3,400 so far
- Whole practice 3,400 yd 4 sections
3400 yards over four sections. The totals on the sheet are the ones the coach had already typed into his own document by hand — SwimScript arrives at the same numbers, which is the only test of an arithmetic feature that means anything.
Three things, and they are the whole product.
- It opens the
.docxpractices you already have. Tabs, superscripts, unclosed brackets and all — twelve real practices are in the test suite, and the awkward ones are the reason it is twelve. - It prints one page that looks like your document. Letter, portrait, margins measured off the source practices, and a serif with the same advance widths as Times New Roman so the lines break where yours break. A long practice steps down from 16pt toward a 12pt floor to hold the page. All twelve reference practices fit on one side; one that still would not is given a second sheet rather than being shrunk past legible.
- It counts while you write. Per-section yardage and a running total, worked out from the sets rather than typed — change a repeat count and every figure below it moves. Beside them, an estimate of how long the session takes, marked as an estimate because about half the lines in a real practice carry no send-off to measure.
It is new, and it is built on real practices.
SwimScript was written for one masters coach, and it is shaped around twelve of his real practices rather than around a persona. No logos, no counts of happy coaches, no waiting list, and nothing here to sign up for. Open it, drop a practice in, and see whether your notation survives the trip.