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(Front Crawl) Stroke Meaning

Former Member over 4 years ago

I am not an expert swimmer so I do not know if there is a standard convention for this:

When Garmin says Strokes / Lenght or Strokes / Min... what do they mean. Strokes per arm or total for both?

For example, if I see strokes per minute = 20. It means that my left arm does 20 strokes in a minute and my right 20 as well. Is that right?

If so, is that standard usage? Or there are people who would mean that 20 strk/min means that left arm does 10 and right arm does 10 in a min?

0 Andy275 over 4 years ago

Yes, it can only measure strokes on the watch arm. So double that is your rate (but effectively a stroke on each arm is a stroke cycle.

0 tmk2 over 4 years ago in reply to Andy275

Andy275 said:
So double that is your rate

AFAIK the watch already does the doubling.

0 Andy275 over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

I had to check back since my swimming has been limited to OW since March, but it seems that it doubles the count of the watch arm for the stroke/length count, but not the strokes/min. I'd have to check when safe pool options return. Of course the fact that it sometimes interprets my freestyle for butterfly may complicate things. ;-)