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Pre-planned swim/pool workout - lap button

Are pool workouts diffrent than running workouts?

I wanted to do pre-planned workout in pool (200m, then 500m, then 14x50m, then 200m, without rest time) , I pressed START/STOP, finished workout and pressed START/STOP

But in Garmin Connect there are'nt any intervals in my workout, only one interval - warmup

When I do running workout, it automatically goes to next step when I finish one step.

So in pool workout I have to press LAP button every time when I want to go to the next step?

Also if I want to swim in pool without pre-planned workout and I don't want to rest, I have to press LAP button twice?

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago

Would you post the steps in your planned workout please?

.You press lap when you finish a set. You press lap again to begin the next set. If you don’t want to rest, you just keep swimming.

0 Prausek over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Warmup - 200m

Swimming - 500m

Relax - 100m

Swimming - 14x50m

Relax - 200m

Ok, but I wany to see my intervals in Garmin Connect - if I don't press LAP, then I can't see intervals

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to Prausek

It's normal to have short breaks between swim sets. As it stands, how do you expect your watch to know when you've finished one set and start another if all you do is keep swimming?

This is part of a workout I use...

0 Chabier over 5 years ago

But does the watch alert you when a set is finished? Because if you have to count your laps mentally in order to stop a set is kinda messy.

0 Prausek over 5 years ago in reply to Chabier

When I’m doing workout it alerts when I’m doing last lenght of interval

0 Prausek over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Ok, thanks :) today I was clicking LAP and intervals are ok. One thing that bothers me is when I’m doing pre planned workout, function „countdown timer” isn’t working even when it’s on. During free swimming it works.

Also is it safe to click LAP underwater?

So, it seems that during free swimming to avoid rest laps I have to press 2 times LAP quickly

0 Chabier over 5 years ago in reply to Prausek

Cool, tanks!

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to Prausek

Prausek said:
Also is it safe to click LAP underwater?

Garmin recommend that you DO NOT press the buttons underwater.