Really, we needed another thread about this?? It is too much already!!!! (-;

https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...ting_for!!_P6773937/

Do you want your pace reported in laps or lengths?

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Take a short break from ST and read my blog:
http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

Are we talking digital or analog??

African or European ;)

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"They know f_ck-all over at Slowtwitch"
- Lionel Sanders

While we're at it, no "real" swimmer would ever wear jammers in practice.

Real Swimmers wear watches...being a kid in the pool or at any level doesn't make you a "real" swimmer. That's like saying you're not a "runner" even though you run 10-20 miles a week or saying you're not a cyclist when you ride 100 miles/week. Also...speedos are the dumbest set of swimwear ever, no one wants to see your lack of a pecker. jammers ftw.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

How’s your seal mask holding up??

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

Speedos are awesome. You shut yo mouf.

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

LOL! Haha, when I started swimming competitively we did not wear goggles, only for practice. (true story) Hate to burst your bubble, but Seal' don't fit my face. ;-)

I get what you're saying though, as I usually can easily tell the triathletes with the long jammers, bag of toys, 2 water bottles with appropriate logos on them depending on the coach of the day, plastic bag with too difficult to remember workout filled with worthless drills as they saunter unassumingly to the lane......and picking up that damn kick board.........

You have to know these things when you're King.

Truer words were never spoken. Wear it because you CAN!

The evolution of a swimmer:

"Those speedos are so uncool, I'll never wear them. Jammers for life!" --> "Those jammers are so uncool, I can't believe I ever wore them. Speedos for life!"

Boom! Winner.

You can also tell because he hasn't got shit all over him...

Well *I* didn't vote for him

Real swimmers bring a huge clock to the gym and place it at the end of the lane. They also wear a parachute and carry a brick inside their speedos because swimming is supposed to be hard. If you're enjoying it you're doing it wrong.

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What's your CdA?

heck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

Tempo trainer pro can give you goal paces that you swim to.

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2020 National Masters Champion - M40-44 - 400m IM
Canadian Record Holder 35-39M & 40-44M - 200 m Butterfly (LCM)

I swim with our retired high school coach. He is a real swimmer.

He swam against Mark Spitz in college (“I was ahead of him for a while - got on my block first”).

He recorded my swim form using a camcorder and some PVC tube construction, then we put the VHS in the VCR in his office to watch it.

He and his neighbor will cut each other’s hair on the pool deck while I’m swimming.

Despite being 240 years old with a bad ticker and 1.5 functional shoulders he still races open water.

I don’t know many swimmer more real than him. If his old ass can choose to wear brightly colored jammers, I reckon anyone can.

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Aaron Bales
Lansing Triathlon Team

Naaahhhhh, jammers are for the bashful; like wearing a pair of shorts over your running tights. . Either a drag suit or speedo or go home.

I have a Platysens Marlin that I backed on Kickstarter. The brain bit goes on your goggles under your swim cap. It talks to you using bone conduction with a bit on your cheek bone. No inside ear bit or wrist bit.

I wouldn’t recommend it for pool swimming if you bilateral breathe and keep your head still: I regularly trick it into thinking I’m at pool end. It can beep for each stroke/length & count time though so not entirely useless. Awesome for OWS: the brain has GPS in it & you can set it to tell you your pace every 50m. For example I had no idea the wind made such a big difference even though you’re mostly underwater. There is a GPS waypoint thing, but I don’t find that useful.

So yeah, I’d recommend for OWS & stroke/length rate in the pool, but not for getting accurate live pool swim feedback.

The other advantage, I’ve just thought, of is that it synchronises with my online swim training app (swim smooth guru) so I don’t need to try and remember drills/sets as it tells me what is next. If they sorted the mistaken pool end thing in a firmware update it’d be awesome.

To wear a watch doesn´t make us better swimmers. To remove it either does

Those of us with confidence don't mind wearing the speedo.

I wonder how different that thread would be if instead of "real swimmers," they had said "single-sport swimmers?"

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"The person on top of the mountain didn't fall there." - unkown

also rule 5

Or, in my view, open water swimming. Even single sport athletes who openwater swim have watches. I honestly don’t think it is that useful in a pool as I’ve never been in one that doesn’t have a clock. If they can feedback live (like the platysens or the small beeper thing I can’t remember the name of) it can help with pacing.

I used to have a finis Aquapulse with the earlobe pulse Sensor. That was semi useful, but HR zones when swimming are completely different than cycling or running. Battery is dead now though and they are discontinued.

I’ve tried wrist (forearm) based heart rate, but remembering to look at it when you push off is a pain.