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‎10-13-2018 09:56

‎10-13-2018 09:56

Which Fitbit works best for swimmers?

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‎01-15-2022 13:15

In response to schanecka

‎01-15-2022 13:15

Calories has never been accurate so I kind of ignore it.  Glad to see you figured out the turns.  I don't do flip turns and have always extended the first stroke after the turn.

 

Fitbit (the company) doesn't care about swimming and has not fixed anything that has been shown to be an error.   I usually will swim around 60 to 70 lengths and then pause in the sauna for 5 and then resume swimming.   I pause my fitbit and on the fitbit it knows the swim time versus clock time.  But on line the info only knows clock time so my cadence is all messed up online.  ALSO Per Lap data that is on the fitbit is lost once the swim is complete even though it tells you to look online.  

 

What I'm saying is if you want a true swim tracker there are much better trackers than a fitbit.

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‎07-21-2022 16:48

In response to schanecka

‎07-21-2022 16:48

I have had similar experiences with my charge 4, undercounting calories. My issue is I am a slow swimmer and they just use average pace for the workout. I drag my legs and am a slow swimmer .. im working on it but while dragging your legs may be inefficient it's actually a reasonably good cardio event (albeit undercounted).

 

Honestly fitbit (at least the charge series ) responds with cafeteria grade results. You get average pace (wi no max or min) and a somewhat reasonably good lap count .. with    distance =  poolSize * laps and a non cardio algorithm is applied to  pace for your calories. I think fitbit desperately needs a swimmer in thier engineering department .. to kick some **ahem**.

 

In the end I AM glad I can swim and I don't need any wearable to validate my workouts. I just wish it worked better. 

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