It is very easy to wonder about, sceptically at best, uncharitably at worst, at the latest and greatest bit of gear on offer for swimmers, pool, open water and triathletes.
Those expensive, smart, sports watches and their marketers all promise to make you a better and faster swimmer, improve your technique (how we have no idea), record your splits and even work out your DPS (distance per stroke) all the while making it all sound like fun. And, you can even download your training statistics to an app to review after you finish your training session.
Post-training review is great and, if performed regularly, helps monitor progress toward your target or at least provides a record of your training metrics so it should not be discounted.
There is always a but thought, and therein lies the issue. None of the data that is recorded and downloaded to an app is accessible and visible in real time – while you are swimming. Sure, you will see what time you swam for that 100 or 200 when you finish, but did you know your splits along the way or what your heart rate was as you swam?
Wouldn’t it be great to have something that provides real-time feedback including splits, cumulative time, distance swum and DPS, and heart-rate?
Well, great is here, with an in a goggle display of all your training metrics while you are training.
The author has been using a set of FORM* goggles for the past 14 months and finds them an incredible aid to training.
It is now that we need to consider desired training outcomes before we go any further. The key focus of a daily program should always be on an outcome, or set of outcomes. No matter what outcome is sought, it comes with an energy training zone.
The key to achieving those outcomes is to ensure that work intensity conforms to the appropriately specified energy training zone (read heart-rate range).
Without real time feedback on heart-rate, training set heart rates are generally measured after an interval or set has been completed. This is done by taking the pulse rate at either the neck (carotid artery) or the wrist (radial artery), or by some other heart rate monitor that is either worn or applied to a pulse point.
A pair of FORM* goggles, with a Bluetooth paired heart rate monitor, will display the HR in real-time in your goggle display. Isn’t that so much more practical and easier? It is all there while you are swimming.
If this all sounds like a wrap for FORM*, then it certainly is – unapologetically. You can check out the full range of features and costs on the FORM website.
* There is no commercial arrangement between the manufacturer or the marketers of FORM goggles and mywaterworld.life
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