Hello members:
I always swim with Heart Rate monitor. I am using Polar HR, but as you know it is not very comfortable to use a t-shirt to swim.
I want to know if someone of you is using the Finis Heart Rate Monitor:
www.finisinc.com/.../aquapulse-heart-rate-monitor.html
What do you think of it ??
Does it meassure Heart rate with good accuracy ??
Finis HR seems to be very comfortable.
Thanks very much for your opinion
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Hi Yedswim;
Thank you and all others members for feedback.
Is it tooo hard to hear the numbers ??
Is the USB port complete waterproof ??
Do you have the chance to compare in real time with Polar Heart Rate monitor ?
I own a Polar HR, I love it. HOWEVER, it is not designed for swimming and is ridiculously hard to get a reading on while in the pool. The watch needs to be right up to the monitor when they are wet and neither can be submerged. This is impossible when in the deep end of the pool, trying to hold your lower chest out of the water, hold your wrist up to your chest and look at the watch with foggy goggles on.
I have some heart problems that require me to keep tabs on my HR when exercising. The aquapulse fixes all of the complaints I have with the Polar for swimming. Since it audibly plays the HR it's very effective for doing HR intensive things like short rest sets and underwaters. We did a lot of 30 off max, 20 off max, etc sets in college and I never actually knew what my max was because by the time there was a chance to take my HR it was no longer my max. Now I can tell what my HR is actually doing at all times. The better you know your body, the better you will be able to train effectively.
I didn't have any issues with it getting in the way. If you've ever worn a Swimp3 it sits in the same place as that. I'd actually like to see the two integrated so I can throw them on for warmups at meets. It was definitely loud enough for me as long as it was in the right position. It's completely waterproof. As far as accuracy goes, it works out of the pool as well so I tested it with my polar and it was consistently within 2 bpm of those readings.
Hope this helps :)
Hi Yedswim;
Thank you and all others members for feedback.
Is it tooo hard to hear the numbers ??
Is the USB port complete waterproof ??
Do you have the chance to compare in real time with Polar Heart Rate monitor ?
I own a Polar HR, I love it. HOWEVER, it is not designed for swimming and is ridiculously hard to get a reading on while in the pool. The watch needs to be right up to the monitor when they are wet and neither can be submerged. This is impossible when in the deep end of the pool, trying to hold your lower chest out of the water, hold your wrist up to your chest and look at the watch with foggy goggles on.
I have some heart problems that require me to keep tabs on my HR when exercising. The aquapulse fixes all of the complaints I have with the Polar for swimming. Since it audibly plays the HR it's very effective for doing HR intensive things like short rest sets and underwaters. We did a lot of 30 off max, 20 off max, etc sets in college and I never actually knew what my max was because by the time there was a chance to take my HR it was no longer my max. Now I can tell what my HR is actually doing at all times. The better you know your body, the better you will be able to train effectively.
I didn't have any issues with it getting in the way. If you've ever worn a Swimp3 it sits in the same place as that. I'd actually like to see the two integrated so I can throw them on for warmups at meets. It was definitely loud enough for me as long as it was in the right position. It's completely waterproof. As far as accuracy goes, it works out of the pool as well so I tested it with my polar and it was consistently within 2 bpm of those readings.
Hope this helps :)
