Swimming Suunto7 and heart rate
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Hi,
so, does the OHR record heart rate while swimming?
Joerg
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@jthomi Yes, and according to some it’s really good… Search Suunto 7 thread.
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Yes, I confirm, register it.
My wrists don’t lend themselves much to whr recording, with s9 I always got values around 200, so much so that then I started to turn it off, S7 performs much better. Sometimes it was very precise, sometimes less but with reliable values. I will do further tests, but the difference compared to S9, as far as my experience is concerned, is clear -
@NickK Hehe, I could say, oh, I tried the search and did not found anything. But to be honest I was kinda lazy and of course I knew that the awesome folk here would help me out.
So thank you @NickK &@Saketo-Nemo
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I have got the Sunto 7 one week ago hoping to usd it for tracking swim and cycling, so far used it for swing 3 times, and I am sorely disappointed.
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no matter what was my effort the HR was always below 120 bpm, which is wrong.
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you can’t customize the sport mode, and see the bpm as a number or a a graph, you only have the color bars indicating the cardio zone, but, as pointed above, no matter what effort, only the blue bar would be on (lowest cardio zone).
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with the backlight set to always on, the screen lock does not work, and the screen can change by itself when the watch transitions from below to above the surface of the water. In the same circumstance the screen, even if set to always on, can decide toswitch off.
A happy (NOTt) customer…
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@aborsic In all fairness, lack of customized sports modes and screen lock functionality when doing sports are both known quantities and are spelled out explicitly in the manual.
As far as OHR is concerned… Out of curiosity, did you do your swimming in the pool? What length? Styles? Did you use another watch/sensor for comparison?
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@aborsic I have the same problem. I went swim after almost one year and at the end of the session (beacuse during swimming is not possible to see the HR graph) the S7 recorded an average of 109 bpm which I’m pretty sure it’s very undersimated (I feel my body during effort). This led to an evaluation of only 4h of recovery time and low value of EPOC and PTE. Numbers completely unuseful. I went three times and the result was always the same. The watch tracks the distance of the pool very well, but only that! Just to be clear: the pool is 25 m long, I did freestyle and the watch was in the position suggested by the reference manual.
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@aborsic @NickK are you both reporting that for swimming (even screen on) the touch works ? That doesn’t work on mine.
