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Swimming - impact on training effect

Ad-Rock
over 5 years ago

Outside of wearing a HRM during any recorded swim activity (which is usually reserved for the likes of professional athletes), is there any way that the training effect can be updated by the amount of active minutes from the swim session?

Just curious as the training effect serves as a good tool to balance out training sessions with recovery periods although without the consideration of swim activities it becomes a little skewed and potentially inaccurate.

Just worth a mention to the folks at Garmin as I love the watch and would simply want it to be more effective than the competitors.

Cheers

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I discovered a work around to enable this somewhere in another post on this forum awhile ago.

    Once youve started a pool swim activity, press and hold the lap button until the screen changes to your normal watch face. Then push the  down button on the right hand side to bring up the HR screen. The watch will then try to read your current HR, once its got a reading, press the lap key button again to return to the swim activity.

    I usually do this after ive swum my first 2 lengths. Its important to note that it needs to be done with your arm out of the water, and whilst the swim activity is in progress. I normally manage to complete this within about 3 seconds, and then continue my swim.

    At the end of the swim you then get a training effect recorded. Your HR is not recorded as part of the swim activity, but if you look on the HR screen you can see a graph of what was measured during the activity. Ive no idea how accurate that is, but it seems roughly aligned to how hard/easy ive just swum. 

    Hope that makes sense and helps...

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I discovered a work around to enable this somewhere in another post on this forum awhile ago.

    Once youve started a pool swim activity, press and hold the lap button until the screen changes to your normal watch face. Then push the  down button on the right hand side to bring up the HR screen. The watch will then try to read your current HR, once its got a reading, press the lap key button again to return to the swim activity.

    I usually do this after ive swum my first 2 lengths. Its important to note that it needs to be done with your arm out of the water, and whilst the swim activity is in progress. I normally manage to complete this within about 3 seconds, and then continue my swim.

    At the end of the swim you then get a training effect recorded. Your HR is not recorded as part of the swim activity, but if you look on the HR screen you can see a graph of what was measured during the activity. Ive no idea how accurate that is, but it seems roughly aligned to how hard/easy ive just swum. 

    Hope that makes sense and helps...

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Forerunner 945's latest beta has the option to enable wrist-based heart rate during swim activities https//www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=14933

    • "Added ability to enable wrist-based heart rate for swimming (pool and open water). To enable this feature: 1. Open Menu 2. Scroll to 'Wrist Heart Rate' and enter menu 3. Scroll to 'While Swimming' and toggle to 'On'"

    I hope this switch would be added in Fenix 5 Plus series too. It could solve this problem too.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to TommiR

    Unlikely, as the newer Gamin watches have an improved WHR sensor. I should add it really is a positive gain too. I am increasingly seeing better more reliable and accurate results from this new generation of WHR sensor. So much so that I am using a chest strap less and less. 

    I've not had the chance to use it in the pool since it's been enabled but I am looking forward to seeing how it compares with a Polar OH1+