Never have inaccurate swim distances or paces again. Simple Garmin trick.
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2022
- For years, I was logging swim distances that were inaccurate. Subsequently, my paces, were off, too. But I figured out this tip to never having that happen again, when I use a Garmin.
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Thanks for this! Just started swimming and was amazed at how quickly I could swim 1km… turns out my Garmin was adding extra lengths 😂 damn thought I was gifted
ha ha that happened to me once, when I was starting out. It was an open-water swim and the GPS must have been wrong, but I thought I was fast. Then reality hit!
Same here off by 300m
Thankyou for ur simple tricks
Had the same problem. Until someone told me to swim kinda overcorrect and to be careful about the arm movement. The watch might count when you're moving your arm too much when you're resting for example. It takes a bit of practice, but when you swim really correct and accurate the gamin actually tracks the distance quite good. Also the glide phace in the beginning of each lap is important.
so push of, glide and swim. And don't move your arm too much while resting or avoid other swimmers crossing your path. It's a bit annoying yes but it works when you're used to it.
Good advice, and I agree with this
Ah man thank you!!! I was looking for a easy work around
Did it work?
I want to work out in certain zones during training and I can‘t see where my hr zone is during drill. That‘s the problem with drill mode..
I shall try the drill log.
The normal swim mode is absolutely useless. I have a standard 25 metre pool. I swam using the same stroke (freestyle). So at two completed lengths it worked and clocked the distance correctly at 50 meters. Then at 4 completed lengths it jumped to 150 meters! And so on!! I’m sure by the end of my 40 min swim it had added an additional 300 meters onto my swim!!! I’m tempted to just bin this and manually count lengths. The data looks all nice in the Garmain connect app..but is shockingly inaccurate! Considering the price range of the device and it’s supposed to specialise in swimming..I think this watch should be reported to trading standards lol
I hear you, Its Rick James Bitch. That’s exactly why I prefer the drill mode.
Thank you very much 👍
You are very welcome
Wow thanks 😊
Any clever tricks/tips to keeping track of wall rest time while still in drill mode?
I don’t believe that’s possible because in drill mode the only things you can do are pause it and select the distance you just swim or stop like you’re going to end the entire swim…
Just got a fenix 7. Still not able to log correct distances during swim workouts. It doesnt show drills options during swim workouts
Have you tried setting up the drills screen before you do the workout?
Just used this and finally had an accurate pool swim. Is there a way to see how many laps/drills completed during the workout?
Have you checked in Garmin Connect? It should show all your history of the swim there.
I have just been using Fenix 7 solar in heart rate broadcast mode in the pool (recent heart attack), when a swim the display screen enlarges and shows only the left side of the display ... then freezes up. No way to decrease size or even turn it off. I have to plug it in when I get home. Ever heard of this? Any fix you know of?
Odd one. Never heard of this. Try updating the firmware maybe?
@@IronmanHacks I spoke with Garmin a few times. I removed touch screen option(thinking just water hitting face of watch may cause it to happen?) and they told me to try using Swim Mode as opposed to Heart Rate Mode. Will report back after swim today. Thanks.
I will try this the next time I'll go swimming. Just used the Forerunner 55 today for my first swim with the watch and it said I did 2000 meters instead of 1000 meters. I just do breaststroke, but because it was so busy in the pool, I had to keep avoiding other swimmers. I manually edited my lap settings in garmin connect, but when I tried to upload that to strava, it still said I had done 40 laps instead of 20. So hopefully the drill log setting will fix this. Could i also just swim 20 laps in one go and make the drill be 1000 meters?
Yes you could also do one big drill of 1,000 m but it may be harder to remember along the way
Is this watch still relevant today (after almost 3 years of its release)?
Am looking for my first smartwatch mainly for the fitness functions, but all I do is just light jogging and pool swims. But am already used to count the laps and see the clock.
Should I consider getting this garmin now, or the newest iwatch SE2?
Thanks a lot!
Hey there. This watch is not the latest and greatest out there, for sure. Newer versions like the 255 and 955 have even more features, but all the Garmins are going to have what you need if you are just doing light jogging and pool swims.
Whether you should buy a Garmin or Apple is really a personal decision, and much of it will come down to looks, style, and price, if you are not a serious triathlete or hardcore runner or swimmer. The Apple's screens are brighter and they're kind of more stylish I'd say - it's a different look altogether.
I suggest you read the reviews on DC Rainmaker - he's got the most extensive and complete (and neutral!) reviews of all these watches, and decide for yourself. Here's his review of the 255: www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/06/garmin-forerunner-255-review-multisport.html
Finally, I have seen some really cheap watches used - like $100 - in perfect shape.
Happy training!
@@IronmanHacks hi, I am thinking of buying Garmin swim 2.. which other swimming watches do you recommend, I only swim, no running or cycling.. please suggest.
I can’t say I’m an expert on Swimming watches, but the best thing I have used for swimming is the FORM goggles.
Forget the Garmin completely. The goggles is all you need.
Do you have any tips on what to do for open waters swims?
Do you mean how to have more accurate swim distances using your Garmin in open water swims? Is that a problem for you? That’s using GPS and certainly can be inaccurate for a number of reasons…
@@IronmanHacksIn my case, it doesn't even start to count properly so after several swim strokes and meters, the counter is on 0.01 mts or something similar. Thanks thought!
Keep your watch inside your swimcap, above the water, near to the temple (for hr reading). Be sure you're not dropping it into the water.
I've noticed that my watch detects if I'm doing drills. I'm not sure how to get rid of it while swimming if I just want to do an over length/time without individual drill times. It doesn't add on the lengths of the drills to the overall swim, but foes add the time. Any tips?
Hi David. Actually, all I show in this video is how to save your swims as drills. The way I'm familiar with is that you have to tell Garmin it's a drill. But if yours is automatically jumping to drills, that's new to me. And that it doesn't add the lengths of the drills is odd too. Which watch is it that you have? You can look here if it's any help...: support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=Mu1LRA03Uj4bTqiYKjENJ8
Yust got my garmin but inaccuracy in pool is terrible. I don’t want to push any buttons in my pool session. I hope I will figure this out otherwise I will return them back.
Why don’t you want to push any buttons in the pool?
When you’re trying to swim non-stop and improve your time without taking breaks you don’t want to stop look at your watch and push buttons.
@@FivosA Did you figure it out?
I have the swim 2 and the accuracy in a 25 meter pool doing a standard freestyle stoke is terrible!! It adds additional 25 meters for fun!! I seriously don’t understand why the watch has a pool size setting..it’s totally irrelevant to how the watch determines a completed length of a pool!
@@FivosA technically you’d only have to log in your distance / push buttons once in the end in that case :). I’d say this advice is less practical if doing multiple short distance or variable distance splits. I can’t wait to try this since the inaccuracy is driving me crazy.
Nice trick. My watch added additional 100m for me after swimming 50m and made the results were insane
My garmin is not very accurate in the pool.
I know the pool is 25 metres, but soemtiems during the workout the watch will say 50 metres, instead of 25 metres. Anything i can do to stop this ??
Use the lap feature to manually enter the distance you just swam.
this is a good method to handle with miscalculated laps, but i found it frustrating that i get an even pace for each lap in the drill.
theres no specification per lap, it just counts all laps in the drill as equal.
if there are any swimmers here that found a garmin model or just another method to get accurate measurements while swimming in a pool with other people, please share :)
Had the same problem. Until someone told me to swim kinda overcorrect and to be careful about the arm movement. The watch counts when you're moving your arm when you're resting for example. It takes a bit of practice, but when you swim really correct and accurate the gamin actually tracks the distance quite good. Also the glide phace in the beginning of each lap is important.
so push of, glide and swim. And don't move your arm too much while resting or avoid other swimmers crossing your path. It's a bit annoying yes but it works when you're used to it.
This is the actual answer. Mine is just a hack to override what the accelerometer thinks you’re doing. But if you can figure out how to move properly like you’ve done then yes you’re good. Thanks
How do i stop my garmin 955 saying ive swam 50 metres after ive only swam 25 metres ?? This doesnt happen each length though, it might only happen every couple of lengths????
Part of it can be how you move your arms and how the accelerometer interprets your actions. But to overrule all that, just use the lap feature and enter the time distance you actually swam.
Of I swimming 10 lengths of a 25m pool continuously my lengths get logged but I can seem to see times for each individual length just over all time... Is this right?
If you are recording the standard way (not in drill mode as I show in this video) you should see the times for each individual length and of course the total time. You should also see other metrics like SWOLF and strokes.
@@IronmanHacks I select pool swim from the main menu, do 65 lengths of a 25m pool then I check mystats on my phone... I go to the loop icon and it tells me my stroke, number of lengths, distance, pace etc but where can I view the individual length times? .... Really frustrating as I'm trying to see where I need to improve... It must capture this detail but where?any help would be appreciated
I see mine under the loop icon also. Are you using iPhone or android? And are you recording them as drills like I showed in the video or are you doing them the standard way? I think you said the standard way right?
@@IronmanHacks I'm using android and I'm just doing a continuous swim. I press start at the beginning then stop & save at the end of the 65 lengths... But when I go to the loop it just shows as one line Swim Stroke, Lengths, Distance etc but no where can I find out what time I did each length in the data must be somewhere as it gives me my average pace per length just can't see individual lengths... Is this what appears on yours if you swim continuously? Thanks for helping BTW 👍
It should be under that loop icon. If you give me your email, I can send you a screen cap. Or you can email me at andrew@ironmanhacks.com.
Hi. I think Garmin devices are a absolutely useless in swimming pool. I had the 245 model, wrong metrics . Now , I have a Samsung galaxy watch 4 , and until last uptodate (very bad, useless ) I think was the better swimming tracker. Never Garmin ...
"mumble mumble... data screen" What did you do.
What part was unclear?
@@IronmanHacks How you got into data screen.