HRM Chest Strap while swimming

shaunshaikh

Has anybody gotten their HRM (with the chest strap) to work properly while swimming? I can only get readings while standing still and the strap always slides down when I push off the wall. I'd appreciate any tips or perhaps any online calculators to approximate calories burned with height, weight, gender, vo2max, etc.

juliapurpletoes

http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm

I used this before i got an HRM and it was reasonable close.. Polar FT4

i have the same trouble when doing laps, treading water is okay though.

hadl0032

Bump

shaunshaikh

Just saw on Polar that they admit its hard due to the chemicals in the water and the shifting of the sensor while you're swimming. Oh well.