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water or very close to the water surface. External factors such as water conditions and satellite positions can affect the
accuracy of the GPS data, and as a result data from the same route can vary from day to day.
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.
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 in water.
START A SWIMMING SESSION
1. Press BACK to enter the main menu, choose
Open water swimming
2. When using the Swimming/Pool swimming profile, check that the pool length is correct. To change the pool length,
press LIGHT to access the quick menu, choose
Do not start the training session recording until you are in the pool, however, do avoid pushing the
buttons under water.
3. Press START to begin 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:
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
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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
Training with wrist based heart rate
Start
profile.
for instructions on wearing your watch during
training, and then browse to the Swimming,
Pool length
setting and set the correct length.
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Pool swimming
or
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