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Laszlo Balogh's avatar

I would like to know what is your experience with hart rate monitoring during swimming. I use Garmin watch for tracking, for four years Tactix Delta and from December Tactix Amoled. In the first year the Delta with its built-in optical sensor measured the HR very well, I was satisfied with more than 90% reliability of the results. But something happened in mid of 2021, from this date, the result from the optical sensors are not reliable any more. This was the reason I changed to Tactix Amoled with the latest version of built-in sensor but it doesn't work either. I started to use Garmin HRM Swim what works correctly. But it is also not a perfect solution. I hate to wear it in a public swimming pool, not comfortable, it might be loosen during the swimming or after kicking off the wall. Furthermore after some months the chlorine ruins the strip completely.

Any other suggestion?

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Ron Buda's avatar

Thanks for the reply. I have done this for all my teams and also with a small group of “old geezer” masters swimmers when we workout together on off days.

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