All of you swimmers out there – here is a product you might be interested in. Have you ever wanted to be able to measure heart rate while swimming? If so, this new product might be of interest to you. It’s called the Instabeat. The Instabeat is a waterproof heads-up display that attaches to your swim goggles. [Read More...]
Garmin just released the new Garmin Swim! Check out the press release below from their site: Dive In and Make a Splash With The New Garmin Swim™ June 25, 2012 – posted in Garmin Connect, Into Sports, Today we are excited to announce the newest addition to our fitness lineup– Garmin Swim™. This is [Read More...]
For those of us who own a Finis Swimsense swim watch, and have always wanted to customize the display, the wait is over. On Friday, Swimsense released a firmware update that allows users to customize the swim mode screen. You can choose 1,2,or 3 different swim metrics on the screen, with up to 5 screens [Read More...]
Runners have GPS heart rate monitor watches, bikers have bike computers, but until recently, there haven’t been many good products that swimmers can use to monitor their workout. That has changed recently with the release of new swim watches over the past year. One of the leaders in the field of swim equipment is Finis. [Read More...]
It has been a busy week for reviews. We wrapped up an in depth review of the Finis SwiMP3 2G audio player, and an in depth review of the Suunto Quest heart rate monitor. We have more reviews to come in the following weeks, so check back often. Also, be sure to also follow us on [Read More...]
Finis recently announced their latest product to help monitor your swim training; the Hydro Tracker GPS. The Hydro Tracker can be used to track and log your open water swim using the built in GPS receiver. The device attaches to the strap on your swim goggles, so that it had a clear view of the [Read More...]
Next week is the annual CES show, held in Las Vegas. We will be there to cover all of the new fitness electronics products, including the new Bluetooth HRM from Wahoo Fitness called BlueHR. We will also be covering new software, new fitness electronics, and the new GPS watches, hopefully getting more info on the [Read More...]
Are you looking for a great gift idea for the swimmer in you life. Look no further than the Finis Swimsense performance monitor. The swim sense is a rechargeable swim training watch that measures pace times, distance, stroke count, stroke rate, distance-per-stroke and calories burned across all major strokes. To use the watch, all that [Read More...]
The guys over at Finis have been hard at work lately. They have been improving the already good Swimsense swim watch by tweaking the software over the past few months. Last month, they added Interval Inference Mode (iiM), which means you will no longer need to press the pause button when you take a rest. [Read More...]
I know everyone is looking forward to the Garmin 910XT. We will be reviewing it in a future blogpost. We want to have multiple reviewers spend some time with it before we post our detailed review. Until then, here are a few videos to whet your appetite. The first shows is more of a general [Read More...]
In addition to a recent firmware update to the Swimsense swim watch, Finis has released an update to the Swimsense training log. The major changes were to the workout details page, where larger graphs were incorporated, along with moving the workout history to the top right of the page as a clickable drop down. Some [Read More...]
Swimsense® iiM Software Update Now Available. The Finis Swimsense® has just released a new software update that they call Interval Inference Mode (iiM). All that the fancy name means is that you no longer need to press the pause button when you take a rest. The software has made the watch smart enough to [Read More...]