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Swimming pool & forerunner 235

Former Member over 7 years ago

Dear all, I'm a newbee with my new forerunner 235.
Even this new watch is working very well during my running workouts, I 'm not able to get my real distance swimmed when I go to the swimming pool (Exterior).
I choose the other activity but my distance is not calculate while GPS is well detected at the begining of the session.
What I have to do to get this information ?
Thanks in advance.

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rhdevries over 7 years ago +2

For pool swimming I've been using an app called "Pool Swim" by daniel27. Works flawlessly. Just pick the length of the pool and it records number of lengths, stroke rate, etc. It doesn't use the GPS so…

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0 chunkywizard over 7 years ago

The 235 doesn't support swimming, sorry.

0 ASmugDill over 7 years ago

The GPS receiver in your watch doesn't work very well at all when the device is submerged (and there is no reason why one would expect it to, based on the marketing collateral and technical specifications for the FR235).

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I am new to this too. I got the forerunner 235 for running, but now am getting into cycling, open water swimming and pool swimming too. Are there any apps you'd recommend downloading for these activities. I've been going through them and haven't got a clue. Thank you

0 ASmugDill over 7 years ago

There are factory-installed activity profiles for cycling (Bike) and ?spinning? (Bike Indoor). As chunkywizard has already mentioned, the FR235 does not support swimming; neither the GPS receiver nor the optical heart rate sensor are designed to be used when the watch is submerged, so there is little you can hope to reliably track when swimming. You could try keeping the FR235 positioned on the top/back of your head under a swim cap when swimming in open waters, and hope GPS would work moderately well for tracking distance and speed (using, say, the factory-installed Other activity profile), but then you wouldn't be able to see any information on the watch while swimming, and you can forget about tracking heart rate.

0 rhdevries over 7 years ago

For pool swimming I've been using an app called "Pool Swim" by daniel27. Works flawlessly. Just pick the length of the pool and it records number of lengths, stroke rate, etc. It doesn't use the GPS so its not for open water swims. https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f134a024-6ee4-47d3-8aec-3a397e3c9733

0 scorpiolfd over 3 years ago in reply to rhdevries

I have downloaded this app for my other half but it doesn’t record any distance or laps so how do we work it out? I have put in the info of 33.33 for the pool length, downloading was simple, just don’t know what we are doing wrong