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!
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.
Pure speculation - because water is calming & meditative.
Theoretical under-pinning - see the Aquatic Ape theory.
My advice - learn to understand your own actual exertion through your own perception. If you do enough work with a pace clock and learn how your body reacts at different speeds, you should be able to understand, without any more technology than a pace clock, how hard you're working. If you work hard more often, you'll get fitter. Whether you'll lose weight or not though depends on many more factors, diet being king.
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.
Pure speculation - because water is calming & meditative.
Theoretical under-pinning - see the Aquatic Ape theory.
My advice - learn to understand your own actual exertion through your own perception. If you do enough work with a pace clock and learn how your body reacts at different speeds, you should be able to understand, without any more technology than a pace clock, how hard you're working. If you work hard more often, you'll get fitter. Whether you'll lose weight or not though depends on many more factors, diet being king.
