Greetings All:
I assume everyone got the email from membership about the new USMS-Swim.com partnership for workout tracking. The FLOG here will connect with a new account at Swim.com and provide a lot of new features especially for people who wear fitness trackers.
Anyone signed up over there yet? What do you think of the changes?
I do not have Swim.com account and I do not have a tracking device. I may be old school but I just enter what I did and that is good enough for me. I could not determine if only those who had an account would have their data merged or if everyone gets merged. I for one do not want to merge.
I downloaded the app, and have Garmin Connect set up with it, but my pool swims are not syncing, not sure what the problem is yet.Here's the solution, much easier than all this tech nonsense ...
Remember how far you swam in a workout (practicing memory is good for preventing dementia)
Enter yardage/meterage in Excel (column A = date, column B = yardage)
Learn how to use Pivot Tables and functions like DATE and MONTH when you want to aggregate stats
Nah. I have a spreadsheet to track all workouts, not just swims. I record run/walk, bike, swim, pushups, squats, and misc., then calculate weekly and annual totals. I have logs stashed away that go back to the 1970s.
Nah. I have a spreadsheet to track all workouts, not just swims. I record run/walk, bike, swim, pushups, squats, and misc., then calculate weekly and annual totals. I have logs stashed away that go back to the 1970s.
Wow!!! Good for us Sumo. I thought my logs back to the early/mid-80s was old.
DanNICELY done. I have my old handwritten workout journals from high school (early to mid 80's). I'm kind of bummed because when I went off to college, I started tracking these in a 'primitive' word processing document (whatever existed on the original Macintosh computers where everything resided on floppy disks) and lost those over time. I got back into tracking with Excel in the early part of this century.
Greetings All:
I assume everyone got the email from membership about the new USMS-Swim.com partnership for workout tracking. The FLOG here will connect with a new account at Swim.com and provide a lot of new features especially for people who wear fitness trackers.
Anyone signed up over there yet? What do you think of the changes?
I downloaded the app, and have Garmin Connect set up with it, but my pool swims are not syncing, not sure what the problem is yet.
I have one word for you - WHY? The old FLOG was easy to use, you could easily compare your distance to other people and to your previous months/years. I entered my two swims for yesterday in the app and I guess it didn't like it because it logged one swim as Friday and the other as Saturday. The pace (time per 100) is meaningless, particularly when you are doing drills or kicking - it's simply a measure of the time you spent in the water divided by your mileage.
You may have provided "new" features, but the old features that were actually pretty valuable are gone. Regarding the leaderboard - it doesn't look like it's accurate at all. I can't find my name on the listing, no matter how many times I filter it. Also, is there a way to filter by country and state and to keep the filter settings locked in so I don't have to go fix it every single time? Honestly, I don't really care how many miles some dude in Berlin claims to have gone since 1999.
Maybe the powers that be did the research ahead of time to see if this was something that would be valuable to us FLOGgers, but this is the kind of thing that actually makes me NOT want to sign up for USMS next year since the FLOG was one of the most valuable and motivating factors of my membership. I love technology perhaps more than the average person, and I never swim without my Apple watch, but this seems like technology for technology's sake.
Here's the solution, much easier than all this tech nonsense ...
Remember how far you swam in a workout (practicing memory is good for preventing dementia)
Enter yardage/meterage in Excel (column A = date, column B = yardage)
Learn how to use Pivot Tables and functions like DATE and MONTH when you want to aggregate stats
You lost me at "Here's."
I received the email but had completely forgotten about it until now. So I just downloaded the swim.com app, and it looks like it synched to my Apple Watch.
I see 2 issues:
* Kicking: my watch doesn't record it. This typically isn't very much, 3-500 per workout.
* Over-estimates of some o/w: when I swim at Barton Springs, my watch can record distances far exceeding what I actually swim. After the swim sometimes I'll look at the map that it produces and it could have me 100+ yards outside of the water, with paces of :40-:50 per 100 yard pace! For o/w, when I do point-to-point swims, it is usually fairly accurate, but not so much for loops/laps.
For best results, I've found it easiest to just keep track of the distance I swim myself. I've seen someone at Deep Eddy (an odd distance of 100 feet long) who has some sort of Abacus he keeps on deck while he swims. For Barton Springs, the laps are about 1/4 mile, so 20 of them are 5 miles, pretty easy.
