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.
the equivilant would be just that and produce the same heart rate...DUH!
if the heart rate is not the same then it is NOT THE SAME!!!
tiny little shoulders compared to glutes/quads
look at the world records at sprint events...running 200m faster than the time of a 50m free ---- 4:1 ratio
(any think they can go 6.5 miles --- 1/4 of marathon --- in under 2hrs? sit down sy you are banned)
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.
the equivilant would be just that and produce the same heart rate...DUH!
if the heart rate is not the same then it is NOT THE SAME!!!
tiny little shoulders compared to glutes/quads
look at the world records at sprint events...running 200m faster than the time of a 50m free ---- 4:1 ratio
(any think they can go 6.5 miles --- 1/4 of marathon --- in under 2hrs? sit down sy you are banned)
