Workout Comments
We just added a new workout comments feature to the site. This allows you to provide feedback on any workout available on the site. If you really enjoyed a workout, why not leave a comment for the workout author? Also, if you modified a workout to make it more interesting, let the Dynoswim community know about it. Prior to submitting a comment you must first login to your account. If you don't have an account, create one now. This only takes a minute and it's free! In the coming weeks additional features will be implemented, stay tuned!
Go Swim Videos!
We're pleased to announce a partnership between Go Swim and Dynoswim. Dynoswim.com is now offering our website visitors the opportunity to view Go Swim's video player. The Go Swim video player is known throughout the swimming community as among the best resources for swimming drills and examples on proper technique and good form. You can view these videos by clicking Swim Drill Videos on your left navigation.
Please comment below and let us know how you like it!
Save Your Completed Workouts!
Use Dynoswim's workout log!
It's free; it's easy.
If you've completed a workout in the database don't forget to "save it as completed". By saving workouts that you complete you could keep track of your monthly and yearly totals. If you aren't tracking your workouts already create a Dynoswim account and start keeping track today!
2007 Statistics
We put together some interesting 2007 year end statistics. We are quite pleased with the growth of the site this past year. Please continue using Dynoswim as your swimming workout resource. Let's surpass these numbers by a large margin next year!
- Workouts Submitted: 405
- Workouts Saved as Completed: 608
- Most times a workout was printed: 13
(http://dynoswim.com/freestyleFrenzy.php?workoutId=733) - Most times a unique workout was saved: 7
(http://dynoswim.com/freestyleFrenzy.php?workoutId=725)
Added Three New Workout Categories
We recently added three new swim workout categories to the workout database. Initially, we had only a stroke category for all stroke swim workouts. We added a backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly category. We then went through the 177 stroke workouts, and if we saw fit reassigned them to the new categories. Going forward, if the focus of the workout is a backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly set, please categorize it as such. If the workout is a mix of strokes, then the stroke category should apply. Thanks to Cyber-Dynoswimmer, Greg Rasmussen for the suggestion.
New Option When Creating a Workout
We recently introduced a new feature on the site that will serve
multiple purposes. When creating a workout, we've added a "visible"
selection. What this means is you have the option to add a workout to
the database, but not make it searchable to the Dynoswim.com community.
Why would you want to do this? One reason might be that you completed a workout at practice which your coach added to the database, but you might have arrived early/late and want to track your distance. Another example would be if you swam a mile in the open water and want to track your distance. Some other creative uses could be that you swam in a meet, and want to track each race along with your time.
Once you submitted the workout, you still won't have access to edit it regardless of the "visible" field selection. If it's not visible, you won't be able to search it, but you could find it in your "view your submitted workouts" page.
RSS Feeds for Saved and Submitted Workouts
We've added RSS Feeds of your saved workouts (save as completed), and submitted workouts. You could access your individual feed URLs when you log into your account. For those of you that wish to learn more about RSS feeds and how Dynoswim uses them check our our new FAQ item.
We also updated the completed workouts chart from a bar graph, to a line graph. Some users had saved multiple years worth of data, and a line graph allows a simpler view when you have multiple years of data.
Updated Search Swim Workout Results Page
Now that we have more than 850 swim workouts in the database we figured we needed a better way to navigate through the various pages of workouts. Previously, we only had the ability to navigate one page at a time from start to end which ended up being a tedious process if you wanted to view all the workouts (over 85 pages). Now you could easily skip to the end, or view various pages in-between. Also we applied a new look to the page which hopefully will make it a bit easier to read. Feel free to leave any comments below.
If you don't see the changes right away hold down the shift key, and press F5.
Workout RSS Feed for Your Website
Does your swim team have it's own website? Are you a swimmer or triathlete that likes to keep track of your swim workouts on your blog? If so we'd like to help display your workouts on your website using Dynoswim.com. We could create a custom RSS feed for you that would display your workouts submitted into the database in your website. To see this in action check out the sidebar at westportswimclub.org labeled "Workouts". If you're interested in adding this free functionality to your website, please contact us.
Completed Workouts Chart
Now you can view a chart of your monthly distances year over year. Access this feature by going into your profile and clicking the "View your completed workouts chart" link at the bottom of the page.
If you don't have a dynoswim account you could create a free one by clicking here. Once you create an account you could save your completed workouts and track the distances using your dynoswim account. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions....
Changing the Order of Workout Sets
For those of you that submit workouts, we've enhanced the create workout functionality to allow ordering of the workout sets.
Completed Workouts
Dynoswimmers have saved 67 different workouts as completed thus far in 2007. If you've completed a workout in the database don't forget to "save it as completed". By saving workouts that you complete you could keep track of your monthly and yearly totals. If you aren't tracking your workouts already create a Dynoswim account and start keeping track today!
For those of you using this feature leave the total yards or meters that you've completed thus far in the comments.
Updated: View Your Submitted Workouts
For those of you who have submitted workouts into the Dynoswim database we think you'll like the improved "View Your Submitted Workouts" tab interface. We display your submitted workouts into separate year tabs. We also display the number of users who have saved your workout as completed. We hope these enhancements makes the site more usable. Again feel free to leave a comment with any feedback, or features you think would benefit the Dynoswim community. For those of you who haven't created a workout this is what the interface looks like:
Note: You could access this page from within your profile page, the link is located at the bottom of the page labeled "View your submitted workouts".
New: Search Swim Workouts by Time
We've updated the search swim workouts tool, so you can now search swim workouts by "Total Time". For the new "Total Time" field, you enter the time in minutes, and it will return all workouts 15 minutes greater, and 15 minutes less than the time you entered.
Updated Website Features
We want to mention a couple of minor enhancements made to the website recently. The first change is the "View Completed Workouts" page which now displays the data in a tabular format (each tab corresponds to the year in which you saved workouts).
The second change corresponds to an extra step we added upon "saving a workout as completed". Once you click save you'll come to a screen where you could enter the date in which the workout was completed. Say for example you completed a workout on November 20th, but don't get around to saving it until December 21st. Prior to this change it would show up in your November monthly totals, wherein now you could choose the proper date you completed the workout.
We hope these enhancements help you better utilize Dynoswim.com as a training tool. Please continue to provide us feedback, and leave any comments/suggestions to these two features below.
Site Enhancements
We've made a couple more enhancements to the website today. The 1st change is we've changed the site layout from 2 columns to 3 columns. The 2nd change is adding a "Recent Comments" section to the far right navigation (below the ads). The "Recent Comments" should help keep site visitors aware of recent comments on posts that are no longer at the top of the page. If you come across any problems with the site due to the changes that took place today please let us know in the comments section of this post.
Completed Workouts
We've added another new feature to the website that will allow you to keep track of your completed swim workouts. It also gives you a monthly breakdown of your completed workouts, and monthly/yearly totals of your distances swam. When viewing a workout you'll have an additional link at the top labeled "save as my completed workout", once clicked that workout will be saved in your profile as completed. To view your completed workouts, log into your Dynoswim account, and click the "edit" link on the left to view your profile information, at the bottom you'll see a link labeled "View your completed workouts".
Please note to use these features you'll need to be signed into your Dynoswim account. If you don't have an account, create one today! Feel free to leave a comment on your experiences with this feature, or any ideas you might have on how to expand upon it.
Swimming Background
We've added a "Swimming Background" section to your Dynoswim account. Help us get a better idea of what kind of swimming background our Dynoswimmers have. To add this information to your profile you must first log into your Dynoswim account, and then click the "edit" link to access your account details.
New Dynoswim Web Features
We are now displaying the approximate workout time when viewing a workout.
ATTENTION: Cyber-Dynoswimmers!
Please be sure to fill in your country of residence next time you login to your account.
Thanks!
New Dynoswim Web Features
Take a look at some new features in our Search Workouts function. You can print directly from the selected workout; your workout will come out in perfect form. You can also e-mail your selected workouts directly to your friends simply by clicking on the e-mail link right on the workout page.
Check it out, and keep sending us comments on how you'd like us to improve the site!
Site Maintenance
We apologize for any downtime you might have experienced with the website today. We are currently in the process of migrating our website to a new web hosting company.
Dynoswim.com Website Tip
If you've created a Dynoswim account, and submitted workouts to the Dynoswim database you could view all your submitted Dynoswim workouts by doing the following:
- Log into your Dynoswim account
- Once you're logged in, click the "edit" link in the confirmation message or click on the "edit" link in the Dynoswim Account Login box
- At the bottom of the page, click the "View your submitted workouts" link to see all the workouts you submitted to the database
Visitors and Registered Users
If you're using Dynoswim's workouts database, why not enter your own favorite swimming workouts? Or if you have an important set you'd like to share with us, add that too. Spread the wealth of knowledge, if you have it, share it! We do.