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Garmin Swim Watch

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Designed for pool swimming, the Garmin Swim watch logs your distance, pace, stroke count and stroke type and features free wireless online analysis, storage and sharing of your data.

ANT+ wireless uploads your data to Garmin Connect for accurate analysis, secure storage and easy sharing
Gauge your swimming efficiency with the time and number of strokes required to swim a pool length
Advanced features allow you to create timed sets and log drills
Watch features 12- and 24-hr. time, dual time zones, day/date and a daily alarm
User-replaceable CR 2032 coin-cell battery offers up to 12 months of power
The Garmin Swim watch is water-resistant to 50m (165 ft.) and operates in temperatures ranging from 14°F (-10°C) to 122°F (50°C)

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Garmin Swim Watch Customer Reviews

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Garmin Swim Watch

4.0

(based on 4 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

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Lightweight (4)
Simple controls (4)

Cons

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Apr

2013

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Very useful but require some patience

By catwoman

from Spokane, WA

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Pros

Compact Design
Lightweight
Simple Controls

Cons

Difficult To Use
Lack Of Clear Instruction

Best Uses

Lap Swim

Comments about Garmin Swim Watch:

This is a very useful training tool. It can be a tad inuccurate: if you have poor stroke technique. Realizing that, it made me pay much more attention to my stroke, and the problem was resolved. Concerning the "inaccuracy" issue: poor hand placement will lead the device to misread the stroke type. Also, if you have issues with maintaining a smooth stroke, the device will add laps. This is not a shortcoming on the device. So rather than solely on the device for lap count, I would recommend looking at the session data once it's uploaded to the Garmin website. A bit frustrating at first, but worth the investment.
There is a lack of clear instruction on Garming parts: especially when it comes to use the drill feature. The watch can not measure kicking drill so it needs to be added manually during a work out (but it can be added during the session). I personnally figured how to use that specific feature at home.
Overal, it's a great training tool.

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Sep

2012

(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

LOVE this watch

By thatlisagirl

from Atlanta, Ga

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Pros

Compact Design
Easy To Use
Lightweight
Simple Controls

Cons

Best Uses

Comments about Garmin Swim Watch:

So, since I started swimming again for weight loss, I could never keep up with the laps and pace and became rather spoiled with my forerunner and edge tracking my workouts- I got the swim watch.

My first swim was the start of my learning curve. I have learned it will only track the lengths you are swimming one of the four strokes- so, in turn I now swim my leg laps with a kickboard after I finish my workout with the watch and thats fine for me and is not a dealbreaker either.

There is a bit of mystery of what meters I actually swam when i pause to the next interval as it always seems to surprise me with extra meters. I find there must either be some errors in the algorhytmic computation or a bumpy beginning because I swim the same full, complete stroke the entire length from start to finish and sometimes the watch does not count the meters until after I pause to start a new interval. Again, this is not a deal breaker for me either- it makes me push myself harder than I think I would without it.

I bought this as a birthday present for myself, but its gives me alot in return.

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Aug

2012

(9 of 9 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

No longer [mis]counting

By CharlesA

from Eugene, OR

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Pros

Accurate
Compact Design
Easy To Use
Lightweight
Simple Controls

Cons

Best Uses

All Day Use
Lap Swimming

Comments about Garmin Swim Watch:

I have been a recreational swimmer most of my life and just started lap swimming casually about a year ago. A few months back I decided to start training for a half iron-man triathlon in 2013, so I started making my swim workouts longer and more frequent.

I found that it started getting difficult to keep track of my lap count as my intervals got longer, and this watch entirely solves that problem. It uses an accelerometer to detect your stroke type and when you have turned around in the pool. In addition to this, you must initially set the pool size. Once you've done this, it does a solid job of counting laps and detecting swim stroke accurately. It also tracks time and stroke count, which is nice.

One interesting thing to note is that because it uses an accelerometer to track your stroke and when you turn, it's accuracy reflects your swimming form. When I first got the watch it would overcount my yards by about 20% (an extra 75 - 250 yards on a 1000 yard workout) and detect the wrong stroke type half the time (lots of backstroke and some breaststroke when I only swim freestyle). At first I thought it was defective, but a friend who is a higher level swimmer took it out for a workout and it was 100% accurate (he wants one now, incidentally). Over the subsequent two weeks I worked on improving my stroke and now it is 100% accurate for me as well; so it has made me a better swimmer.

In general it is also a comfortable watch. I prefer a slimmer watch that is lightweight, so I was pleased to find that the Garmin Swim was both thinner and lighter than the Garmin Forerunner 610 watch I've been wearing. I have taken to wearing it as my primary out-of-the-pool watch because of this.

The only downside to this watch is that it can't be used to track open water swimming. However, this is not what this product is designed to do, so it's hardly fair to fault it as some other reviews have done. If you need a watch that can track distance in a strangely shaped pool where you can't figure out your lap length or in open water, you'll need one of the GPS enabled watches like the Garmin 910XT.

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Aug

2012

(2 of 19 customers found this review helpful)

2.0

Not a GPS Watch

By AlexRWC

from Redwood City, CA

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Pros

Compact Design
Lightweight
Simple Controls

Cons

Best Uses

Comments about Garmin Swim Watch:

I should have read up more on this watch before purchasing it. I'm training for my first triathlon and can't always swim in a standard/measured pool. I wanted a watch that would tell me the distance of my workout in shorter pools or open water swims. This watch will not do that. You have to enter the length of the pool prior to beginning your workout so that it can calculate the number of laps and total distance. It is designed specifically for pool swimming so it won't help in an open water swim to determine distance.

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