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Workout plans

Former Member over 12 years ago

I am interested in buying this watch strictly for indoor lap swimming and I was wondering if you have the ability to program a routine before getting into the pool? It looks like some of the other watches can do this for running, but I have not found anything that would be setup for a swimmer.

I think it would be great to setup the core routine ahead of time and then have the watch keep track of it for you by counting down the laps in each set and automatically switching to the rest periods.

Example:

interval 1
1x400
rest :30

interval 2
8x50 on the :00 (when no movement sensed it would automatically begin counting down the remainder of the time to start again at :00)

interval 3 switches to drill mode
250 kick

interval 4 stays in drill mode
250 pull

interval 5
5x100 with :30 rest

etc...

0 nord0296 over 12 years ago

At the moment you cannot pre-create workouts on the watch. This is true for the Swim watch and the 910xt in swimming mode.

It is possible that such a feature could be added to one or both of these watches in the future, although it often seems that major features are added to new products rather than added with software updates along the way. What I mean so say is, don't buy it counting on new features to be added. Buy it for what it does now if that feature set is adequate for your needs :)

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Thanks for the clarification Nord. After looking around there does not appear to be any products available that would do this type of feature, but i would love something like this to help keep my workouts structured.

I have been pouring over reviews of the Swim and it seems to be an excellent training tool to be able to measure my progress as I get back into lap swimming. I am getting back into it after 15+ years away from competitive swimming.

Thanks again for the info, I appreciate it.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

I ended up pulling the trigger on a new Garmin swim, and I have been to the pool once so far. Has Garmin added any sort of training plans for swimming?