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MEASURING HEART RATE IN WATER
Your watch automatically measures your heart rate from your wrist with the new Polar Precision Prime sensor fusion
technology, offering an easy and comfortable way to measure your heart rate while swimming. Although water may
prevent the wrist-based heart rate measurement from working optimally, the accuracy of Polar Precision Prime is
sufficient to allow you monitor your average heart rate and heart rate zones during your swimming sessions, get
accurate calorie burn readings, your Training Load from the session and the Training Benefit feedback based on your
heart rate zones.
To ensure the best possible accuracy of your heart rate data, it’s important to wear the watch snugly on your wrist (even
more snugly than in other sports). See
Training with wrist based heart rate
for instructions on wearing your watch
during training.
Note that you can't use a Polar heart rate sensor with a chest strap with your watch when swimming
because Bluetooth doesn't work under water.
START A SWIMMING SESSION
1. Press the button to enter the main menu, choose
Start training
, and then browse to the
Swimming
,
Pool
swimming
or
Open water swimming
profile.
2.
When using the Swimming/Pool swimming profile
, check that the pool length is correct (shown on the display).
To change the pool length, tap the quick menu icon
and tap
Pool length
and set the correct length.
Do not start the training session recording until you are in the pool, however, do avoid pushing the
button under water.
3. Tap the display to start training recording.
DURING YOUR SWIM
You can customize what is shown on the display in the sport profiles section in the Flow web service. The default
training views in the swimming sport profiles the following information:
l
Your heart rate and the heart rate ZonePointer
l
Distance
l
Duration
l
Rest time (Swimming and Pool swimming)
l
Pace (Open water swimming)
l
Heart rate graph
l
Average heart rate
l
Maximum heart rate
l
Time of day
AFTER YOUR SWIM
An overview of your swimming data is available in the training summary on your watch right after your session. You can
see the following information:
The date and time when your session started
The duration of the session
Swimming distance
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