Team Goldfish Note: When I recommend something from the gear bag, it's not because someone's asking or paying me to promote it. I'm sharing some tools and gear that I've found to be good quality and useful for swim training! Please remember it's just one woman's opinion.
For anyone who's ever trained for a big event, or been working on getting better at a sport, you know it's important use data! In the case of swimming, that means being able to track yardage and times. When I talk about my swimming, and the distances I practice, folks often ask how do you keep track of all your laps and times?
That's where the Poolmate Watch from Swimovate comes in! About five months into swimming consistently, my parents gave me the Poolmate as a holiday gift. The instructions were easy to follow to set it up--pool length, your weight, which hand you wear it on. And I immediately loved how it let me track laps and times. And the great advantage of the Poolmate over other tools is that it tracks your lengths automatically--no clicking of counters--because it senses your push off from the wall. You just need to click the button at the beginning and the end of the set. It also stores a history of your workouts so you can go back in time and take a look. While the watch is great for tracking distance in freestyle and back sets, I've found it a bit iffy with my breaststroke sets, and it doesn't track distance in open water, though I do still use it for timing open water swims.
It also has a cool story. It was invented by a married couple who had gotten into triathlon and couldn't find a pool watch. There's a nice little video telling their story on the site!
I have the basic model, but there is also a Pro model which includes the ability to download all your data to the computer. If this post has piqued your interest, the folks at Swimovate are offering 10% any order from their website using the coupon code social10!
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