Swimtag

wimpywrx
wimpywrx Posts: 103 Member
edited November 24 in Fitness and Exercise
I have now started back swimming and my pool now uses swimtag to track what you do. Anyone else use one while swimming?

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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    What is swim tag.?
  • wimpywrx
    wimpywrx Posts: 103 Member
    It's a swim band like say a fitbit. It has its own app and does distance, laps, what stroke you have swam and the swim and rest time.
  • pauleapo71
    pauleapo71 Posts: 1 Member
    I use it also, really good tool for tracking swims .............. is there anyway to get it to add swims to MFP?
  • Linda_Jaques
    Linda_Jaques Posts: 13 Member
    The only way I have found to do it, apart from manually, is to link Swimtag to Strava and then Strava to MFP
  • rockymir
    rockymir Posts: 497 Member
    wimpywrx wrote: »
    Well 4th swim Tag swim today. 1900 meters in 53 minutes. 76 lengths of a 25m pool 700+ calories burned. This is a great aid to use.

    Check those calories, they look overestimated to me. That pace is that of a leisurely short swim at best.
  • Steff46
    Steff46 Posts: 516 Member
    I use my Garmin to track my swims and I love it. Those calories burned do look inflated. I do good to get 160 calories burned for a 40 minute freestyle session. But then again I don't flip turn and that may slow down my burn.
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,522 Member
    trimi1104 wrote: »
    That pace is that of a leisurely short swim at best.

    Did you really need to post that comment? It looks like a good swim to me!

    Anyway, swim calories are very hard to estimate and I love the idea of a tracking tool.

    There are formulas for calorie burn, but many don't include weight, which is likely at least somewhat of a factor. You can compare to this one:

    http://www.swimmingcalculator.com/swim_calories_calculator.php
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