Hello everyone.
I'm looking for a way to measure my heart-rate while swimming.
My main requirements are (please excuse my bad english):
The device has to display the heart rate while i'm swimming. I'm a newbie and need to see my heart rate during my training.
Optical heart rate sensors don't seem to be very reliable under water. Thus i would prefer a non-optical device.
I would like to spend under 150£ if possible
Thank you!
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Heart rate while swimming could be deceptive. I read a scholarly paper (long time ago, no links, sorry) that said people's heart rates are much slower in water than doing the equivalent level of exercise on land. They said it wasn't clear why but the slow-down was extreme enough that aerobic levels of exercise did not have typical aerobic heart rates.
They carefully said that they believed there was aerobic benefit just the same - there was evidence to that effect - but the jury was sitll out, and that studies to get a definitive answer would be long complicated and expensive.
Sorry to make a vague "I heard once..." post, but perhaps some others could clarify.
Heart rate while swimming could be deceptive. I read a scholarly paper (long time ago, no links, sorry) that said people's heart rates are much slower in water than doing the equivalent level of exercise on land. They said it wasn't clear why but the slow-down was extreme enough that aerobic levels of exercise did not have typical aerobic heart rates.
They carefully said that they believed there was aerobic benefit just the same - there was evidence to that effect - but the jury was sitll out, and that studies to get a definitive answer would be long complicated and expensive.
Sorry to make a vague "I heard once..." post, but perhaps some others could clarify.
