I'm looking for a good heart rate monitor to wear while swimming.
I have tried the two that I have here at the house and neither one works in the water. Both are water proof but neither registered the heart rate once they were submerged.
1) Cardiosport chest strap and watch - works great until the chest strap transmitter touched the water, then the watch didn't register the rate. If I stood up and got the strap out of the water it immediately started tracking the heart rate again.
2) MioSensor watch (no chest strap) - works great until it got in the water. Wouldn't ever display the heart rate during the swim and didn't start picking it up again until about a 1/2 hour after the swim.
I've been looking at some Polar models since they advertise they are water proof, but the other two were water resistant and handled the water just fine, just didn't work in the water. I don't want to spend another $200 and have another dryland monitor.
Anyone using anything that registers the heart rate WHILE you're swimming?
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not trying to sound like a totatl dweeb here, but...
what do you want the heart rate monitor to do that checking your pulse at the end of a rep can't do?
Ive learned a couple of things about heart rate - my maximum, my optimal training, my resting, my waking, and the time to go from maximum (or elevated) heart rate to recovery mode....all this I achieve by counting my cartoid pulse by the pool's pace clock and taking my heart rate upon waking.
Am I missing something by not having a heart rate monitor? I've looked at them in various sports stores; all seem to twitch around the $200 mark. The **free** pace clock seems to work for me, so I beg the question again,
Am I missing anything by not having a heart rate monitor??
not trying to sound like a totatl dweeb here, but...
what do you want the heart rate monitor to do that checking your pulse at the end of a rep can't do?
Ive learned a couple of things about heart rate - my maximum, my optimal training, my resting, my waking, and the time to go from maximum (or elevated) heart rate to recovery mode....all this I achieve by counting my cartoid pulse by the pool's pace clock and taking my heart rate upon waking.
Am I missing something by not having a heart rate monitor? I've looked at them in various sports stores; all seem to twitch around the $200 mark. The **free** pace clock seems to work for me, so I beg the question again,
Am I missing anything by not having a heart rate monitor??
