Need help with Water Fitness/Aerobics

Since hurting my Achilles tendon, I've been water running, often holding light water weights or a belt. The problem is that the HR is terrible. I sort of need to see my heart rate live to see what zone I'm in, ETC. I don't know if Garmin uses a different power profile for the HR sensor when using pool swim, or how to duplicate that for Water Fitness. There is no Water Fitness activity available on Garmin so I just used Cardio.

Any tips would be appreciated. I'm thinking of using my scoche HR band right next to my watch. I know bluetooth or ant+ can travel about an inch or two under water, so it might work? I know my Form Swim goggles for lap swimming using the polar HR works with it being about an inch away.

Thanks

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DCeremuga over 3 years ago in reply to ericgottlieb +1

Actually wearing my scosche rythm+ right next to my watch worked excellent. The newest polar one didn't do worth a damn.

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0 ericgottlieb over 3 years ago

I don't know specifics, but you are right that Garmin does handle some of the HR and accelerometer sensors differently with different activities. What about if you base your "Water Fitness" on the Open Water Swim profile and disable GPS?

Also, I find that when I use the wrist HR during my pool swims, I have to tighten the watch one notch from where I normally keep it.

0 DCeremuga over 3 years ago in reply to ericgottlieb

Actually wearing my scosche rythm+ right next to my watch worked excellent. The newest polar one didn't do worth a damn.

0 jaamgans over 3 years ago in reply to DCeremuga

have used cardio in the pool before without any issues, and seemed accurate (but wasn't wearing a HR strap so couldn't confirm) - used it for water polo.