Garmin swim watch - Swim 2 - Slate (Black)

Track you and your swimming in the pool and/or open water with the biggest new product of the year, the Garmin Swim 2 swim watch. Measure your heart rate from your wrist in the water while tracking distance, swim pace, stroke count, stroke style and length per stroke. All in one Garmin swim watch.

Unique features of the Garmin Swim 2

Garmin Swim has been on the market for a long time, but now the update has arrived in the form of Garmin Swim 2. And it's not just a small update. I'll try to go through the coolest features below:

• Measure your heart rate from the wristband
  This is the biggest new feature of the Garmin Swim 2. Now you can measure your heart rate directly from the wristband - both under and above the water. Without the need for a chest strap.
• Advanced swimming features
  The Garmin Swim 2 can track a LOT of specific metrics for your swim. This includes all the usual ones such as pace, distance, swim stroke and style, but also new features such as automatically inserted pause time, predicted swim speed (CSS), alerts at each turn in relation to the desired pace directly from the swim watch and logging of swimming exercises. Other cool metrics include "SWOLF Score" and countdown to the start of a series. And you can keep track of it all directly in the watch while you swim.
• Open-water mode
  The watch has built-in GPS so you can track distance, pace, distance per swim stroke and your exact swim route in open water
  
• Do your swim workout in advance
  With the virtual programme, Garmin Connect, you can enter your desired swim workout in advance, and the watch will also tell you when to start each distance and how to swim along the way
  
• Performance indicators
  Now you know you can track your heart rate directly from your watch. But that heart rate measurement means you can also swim by heart rate zones, measure calories burned and measure the direct effect of your swim training
  
• Can also be used outside the pool/open water
  In addition to all the direct functions for swimming, the Garmin Swim 2 can also be used for everyday life, cycling and running - which it also has simple functions for.
• Get notifications directly on your watch - and more
  Connect your different medias and recieve incoming messages and calls. You can upload all your swim data automatically to Garmin Connect.
  

About the watch - Dimensions, battery life, colours and accessories

The Garmin Swim 2 is a further development of the popular original Garmin Swim.

The watch itself is made from a small and lightweight design and material, with an always-on full-colour Garmin Chroma display that is easy to read - even in direct sunlight.

The watch has five buttons on the side that allow you to switch between information, start and stop workouts and marking when you have completed a specific distance. All with a quick press of one of the five buttons.

In addition, Garmin Swim automatically uploads all swim and health data to Garmin Connect, Garmin's own free fitness software, where you can drill down into your data, prepare swim workouts and see your swimming progress.

The watch has a thickness of 11.4mm and weighs 36g

Battery life:

- If you swim in a pool, it has a battery life of 3 full days
- If you swim in open water with GPS on, it has a battery life of 13 hours.
- If you just use the watch as a smartwatch, it can last for 7 days.

Colours

- Slate (this one)
- Whitestone

In addition to the watch itself, you also receive the following:

• 1 Cable for charging and uploading data to the computer
• Documentation sheet
• Comes in a stylish box.

My personal experience with Garmin Swim 2

As a former elite swimmer, I've never swam with a swim watch before. We had a swimming programme to follow. But as a current recreational and open water swimmer, I have never been so happy with a piece of swimming equipment as this swim watch, which I have had the pleasure of swimming with for the past two weeks.

It's an incredible feeling that the watch can measure your heart rate directly from the watch on your hand. It saves me from annoying heart rate belts around my chest that keep slipping back down. Also, it actually works. It adds a whole new dimension to my swimming as a recreational and open water swimmer.

Another thing I really love about the Garmin Swim is that I can almost switch my head off completely when I'm swimming. The watch tracks everything from distance, strokes, swim pace and length per stroke. It's a relief from the constant counting I've been used to when I've been swimming.

To be honest, I never thought I would love the watch, let alone keep using it for every swim. But I can't help it now. Today, the watch is more important than my goggles when I go to swim training.

So I definitely recommend the Garmin Swim 2 swim watch.