FĒNIX 8 SERIES Proprietor’s Manual

NOTE: The watch has wrist-based coronary heart price enabled for swim actions. The watch can be suitable with chest coronary heart price displays, such because the HRM-Pro collection equipment. If each wrist-based coronary heart price and chest coronary heart price information can be found, your watch makes use of the chest coronary heart price information.

Swim Terminology

Length: One journey down the pool.

Interval: One or extra consecutive lengths. A brand new interval begins after a relaxation.

Stroke: A stroke is counted each time your arm carrying the watch completes a full cycle.

Swolf: Your swolf rating is the sum of the time for one pool size and the variety of strokes for that size.

For instance, 30 seconds plus 15 strokes equals a swolf rating of 45. For open water swimming, swolf is calculated over 25 meters. Swolf is a measurement of swimming effectivity and, like golf, a decrease rating is healthier.

Critical swim pace (CSS): Your CSS is the theoretical pace which you can keep constantly with out exhaustion. You can use your CSS to information your coaching tempo and monitor your enchancment.

Stroke Types

Stroke sort identification is on the market just for pool swimming. Your stroke sort is recognized on the finish of a size. Stroke sorts seem in your swimming historical past and in your Garmin Connect account. You may also choose stroke sort as a customized information area (Customizing the Data Screens).

Free	Freestyle
Back	Backstroke
Breast	Breaststroke
Fly	Butterfly
Mixed	More than one stroke sort in an interval
Drill	Used with drill logging (Training with the Drill Log)

Tips for Swimming Activities

• Press to report an interval throughout open water swimming.
• Before beginning a pool swimming exercise, observe the on-screen directions to pick out your pool dimension or enter a customized dimension.

The watch measures and information distance by accomplished pool lengths. The pool dimension have to be right todisplay correct distance. The subsequent time you begin a pool swimming exercise, the watch makes use of this pool dimension.

You can maintain , choose the exercise settings, and choose Pool Size to alter the scale.

• For correct outcomes, swim the complete pool size, and use one stroke sort for the complete size. Pause the exercise timer when resting.
• Press to report a relaxation throughout pool swimming (Swim Auto Rest and Manual Rest).

The watch robotically information swim intervals and lengths for pool swimming.

• To assist the watch depend your lengths, use a powerful push off the wall and glide earlier than your first stroke.
• When doing drills, you need to both pause the exercise timer or use the drill logging function (Training with the Drill Log).

Swim Auto Rest and Manual Rest

The auto relaxation function is on the market just for pool swimming. Your watch robotically detects if you find yourself resting, and the remaining display screen seems. If you relaxation for greater than 15 seconds, the watch robotically creates a relaxation interval. When you resume swimming, the watch robotically begins a brand new swim interval. You can activate the auto relaxation function within the exercise choices (Activity Settings).

TIP: For finest outcomes utilizing the auto relaxation function, reduce your arm motions whereas resting.

To use handbook rests as a substitute, you’ll be able to flip off the auto relaxation function within the exercise choices (Activity Settings). During a pool or open water swim exercise, you’ll be able to manually mark a relaxation interval by urgent . Swim information will not be recorded throughout a relaxation interval.

TIP: Use handbook rests in case you are taking brief rests otherwise you need very exact swim interval timing.

Training with the Drill Log

The drill log function is on the market just for pool swimming. You can use the drill log function to manually report kick units, one-arm swimming, or any sort of swimming that’s not one of many 4 main strokes.

1. During your pool swim exercise, scroll up or all the way down to view the drill log display screen.
2. Press to begin the drill timer.
3. After you full a drill interval, press .

The drill timer stops, however the exercise timer continues to report the complete swim session.

4. Select a distance for the finished drill.

Distance increments are primarily based on the pool dimension chosen for the exercise profile.

5. Select an choice:
   • To begin one other drill interval, press .
   • To begin a swim interval, press or to return to the swim coaching screens.