Triathletes know the swimming style detection and recording of the top watch (910XT, 920XT), but the swim is an ideal "small" Schwimmuhr that you simply can always be in the swimming bag without having to worry about whether after some time without using the battery is empty. The operation is a little tricky, so it is always helpful to have the four relevant DIN-A4 pages from the German manual handy (eg, with an expression of all four sides in A5 format on a double-sided printed A4 sheet, - as the latest "Faster Swimming" books for the swimming bag is simply laminated and is included.
Conclusion: For the / hobby swimmers / in which / who wants to see stored in addition to the other multi-sport active activities, the swimming training in the online diary of Garmin Connect, the swim is ideal and an excellent addition to running computers as Forerunner 220, 620, or fenix 2. At the end of the trip, the pool / floats / in the number of lanes and swum the distance traveled on the clock. The duration of swimming activity and pauses can be read and analyzed on the PC to the Garmin Connect website later.
The Swim determined using a built accelerometer (G-Sensor), among others, the following
Information of the float:
* Swimming style (Freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, miscellaneous, exercise)
* Speed or Pace (in min / 100 m)
* Swum tracks
* Distance swum (based on the specified pool length and the determined number of floated tracks)
* Impact number
* Impact frequency
* Zugdistanz
* SWOLF efficiency score (number of strokes and time per lane) in
Section and for the last train
+ Calories burned (based on data of the user profile).
=== === Features
+ 13 mm height and 40 grams of weight very compact swimming-clock
+ Battery life approximately 1 year (battery type CR2032 is widespread and can even change
will
+ An optional adjustable "sleep" mode, the display switches from the swim - which concerns again in the next movement (also saves battery life).
+ Wireless data transfer for evaluation with Garmin Connect via ANT + PC
+ Water-resistant to 50 meters depth
+ Brilliant, high-contrast black and white display (55 x 31 pixels)
+ Easy to read, high-contrast numbers / symbols
+ If necessary inverse display (white on black instead of black
on white)
+ Incl. ANT + USB stick,
+ Automatic synchronization of the clock on the PC when a USB stick is plugged in and Garmin Express is started (clock can just stay close to the PCs on your wrist or a few meters).
o Compact Operating Instructions (PDF) for download from the Garmin support pages
o Exercise phases (without clear swimming styles) can be used as "training" / "Drill" are given - to the recorded time may then end the number of lanes will be indicated)
=== === Data Synchronization
The transfer of the data stored in the swim training data works wirelessly via ANT + -USB plug which is supplied with the clock. These must be installed on the computer Garmin Express synchronizes its (the program information and firmware from other Garmin devices such as Forerunner, Fenix, Oregon handheld GPS - either via ANT + -Drahtlos connection or via the USB port of loading clamp or the connection cable). To synchronize the SWIM ANT + plug must be inserted in the computer, Garmin Express starts and the clock be placed in the vicinity of the computer (if the clock is still on the wrist must be made no more) - and the training session ends up on the once to be indicated Garmin Connect account for evaluation. The Garmin Swim is probably the only current Garmin-clock which is to be connected (via the ANT + -USB radio link) to the computer wirelessly only - there is no loading clamp.
=== The write the other: pro-tests (for information) ===
* The swimming magazine "Swim" (issue no. 09, Winter 2014/2015) writes in her practical test of seven swimming watches "The Swim Garmin has brought a real all-rounder and a training aid explicitly for swimmers on the market. (...) The processing and the display totally convincing. " The testers complain, however, that the clock in the swimming pool "does not exactly [worked], so always a few yards too few were on display." We provide in our swim training exactly the opposite: when in between by too much interference and is gegleitet long on a track, the clock counts more a train more. (The motion sensor Swim analyzed so the pattern of moving forward movement after the turn and the movements while swimming, to include rail and swimming style and "to recognize".) Are more (much heavier and more expensive) watches with swimming technique in the test of the magazine Swim the Garmin 920XT, the Polar V800, the Suunto Ambit 2 and others.
* The famous triathlete and sports equipment blogger Ray Maker (DCrainmaker-com) writes about the swim: "This clock does what it should do, and that makes it good, you do not have the complexities (in good and in bad). something like the fully equipped FR910XT has, but it is therefore easier to understand and use "(own translation from English).
=== === A Final Word
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