Garmin-Swim on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/garmin-swim/ Recent content in Garmin-Swim on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:01:35 +0000 Garmin Swim https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2014/12/04/garmin-swim/ Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:01:35 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2014/12/04/garmin-swim/ <p>For my birthday, my mother got me a Garmin Swim watch. The watch uses an accelerameter and gyroscope to figure out how many laps I&rsquo;m swimming and what strokes I&rsquo;m swimming. It&rsquo;s not perfect, but it works well enough that it was able to allow me to focus on my strokes instead of counting intervals on the first day I used it. I&rsquo;m not sure what I am doing wrong with breaststroke, but it made it add 2 extra laps to my third set of 400 IM. Even with those issues, (and the fact that something I do with backstroke is so wrong, it thinks I&rsquo;m doing breaststroke) I was able to confirm some things I&rsquo;d supposed, but didn&rsquo;t want to waste time confirming with a less feature-full stopwatch. For example, I confirmed that, on average, I swim 25 meters in 30 seconds with freestyle. I also confirmed that I do my 400s in slightly less than 10 minutes, but slower with each set as I get tired.</p>

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