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Tracking open water breaststroke swimming distance?

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Asked by: Sara Walker

How do you track distance in open water swimming?

Logging an Open Water Swim with MySwimPro



Open the MySwimPro app on your Apple Watch. Scroll down and tap Open Water Swim. Wait for the Location Accuracy to show Best, and tap Start Workout. Start swimming, and MySwimPro will track your distance, time, pace and heart rate.

How do you swim breaststroke long distance?


And from there the hands rotate inwards. That's at this point of the strike that quite a bit of acceleration is needed and the hands recover together.

Can you do breaststroke in open water swimming?

Breaststroke is allowed in all triathlons and open water swims, but avoid backstroke as for safety reasons many events do not allow it.

How do I track my Garmin open water swimming?

Swimming in Open Water

  1. Select START > Open Water.
  2. Go outside and wait while the device locates satellites.
  3. Select START to start the activity timer.
  4. Start swimming.
  5. Select UP or DOWN to view additional data pages (optional).
  6. After you finish the activity, select STOP > Save.


Does Apple Watch track Open Water Swim?

In the my swim Pro app and it's really cool to see the map to see your heart rate it see all the different zones and different aces that you're holding while you're swimming in the open water.

Which Garmin watch open water swimming?

All the Garmin Instinct and Garmin Fenix 6 GPS Watches now have an open water mode and with these running it will run an open water swim algorithm, possibly making these the best open water swimming GPS watches.

Can Fitbit track open water swim?

Know however, there is no actual support for open water swimming. If you mean swimming + GPS, there is no such thing on Fitbit devices.

How accurate is Garmin Swim?

It accurately calculates the number of strokes and number of pool length on higher paces. The Garmin Swim watch also can miss a pool length on a low pace. However, it often adds pool length. For example, recently it counted 6 pool length (150 m) instead of actual 4 (100 m) when I swam with backstrokes.