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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Swimlong,
I can't take my pulse accurately. I had some very serious surgery in the Spring and it resulted in a couple weeks of ICU and some very painful blood draws from my wrists, every morning. I now have so much scar tissue on my wrists that no one can take it there. As far as carotid I'm a very large man, both heavily muscled and covered in a nice thick layer of insulating blubber. :D So taking the carotid pulse is only slightly easier then trying to get a wrist pulse and wildly inaccurate.
I also completely agree with breaststroke, as rapidly as my heart rate drops I can't get close to an accurate count by the time I stop swimming and try to find it.
I train using a very specific heart zone method, so I need a very accurate way of knowing my heart rate at all times.
Thanks for the heads up on Polar and the Speedo, I didn't even realize Speedo made one.
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Swimlong,
I can't take my pulse accurately. I had some very serious surgery in the Spring and it resulted in a couple weeks of ICU and some very painful blood draws from my wrists, every morning. I now have so much scar tissue on my wrists that no one can take it there. As far as carotid I'm a very large man, both heavily muscled and covered in a nice thick layer of insulating blubber. :D So taking the carotid pulse is only slightly easier then trying to get a wrist pulse and wildly inaccurate.
I also completely agree with breaststroke, as rapidly as my heart rate drops I can't get close to an accurate count by the time I stop swimming and try to find it.
I train using a very specific heart zone method, so I need a very accurate way of knowing my heart rate at all times.
Thanks for the heads up on Polar and the Speedo, I didn't even realize Speedo made one.
