Swim Training

What it is

Swim Training is pool logging inside the app you already use for the gym and the road. Your sets, distances, strokes, and intervals all land in one history. Swim work feeds your Kinoku score and your weekly training load next to your lifts and runs. A 2 km session on a Tuesday shows how the pieces fit together.

Stroke types

Each set takes one stroke from free, back, breast, fly, IM (individual medley), kick, drill, and pull. You log the lap distance and the time for the set. From those numbers Kinoku works out your average pace per 100m, your total distance, and a split by stroke. The 2 km Tuesday then reads as its parts rather than as one round number. Swim achievements arrive as the distances add up.

Why swim volume counts toward your week

Most trackers treat swimming as a separate world, with its own screen and its own totals. The week then looks lighter than it really was. Kinoku rolls swim volume into the same load as everything else. So that 2 km lifts your Pulse training score and shows up in the timeline beside your gym sessions. A week of three swims and two lifting days reads as five sessions of training.

Pool scene

The built-in Pool scene switches the Today screen into swim mode in one tap. Your exercise list narrows to swims, and the rest timer is set for poolside. Lap distance starts at 50m, so you are not scrolling past bench press with wet hands.

What it does not do

Kinoku does not count your laps for you, because the log is yours to fill in. You enter the distance and the time for each set, at the wall or later from memory. A session logged that way is only as good as your memory of it, which is worth knowing before you read much into two swims a month apart.

Free, forever

Pool logging, the stroke types, the Pool scene, and the swim volume that feeds your score all cost nothing. Swimming is training, and it counts the same as a session in the squat rack. Swimming gets less depth here than running does today, which is worth weighing before you move your whole log across.