Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest

For what it's worth, I wore a chest strap the last time I lifted. Wanted to see if the data would show anything useful.

My Garmin says it's not enough cardiorespiratory stress to maintain my fitness, and contributes only slightly more than a short, easy swim to my training load. That's about what I expected, now it's confirmed.

Also, the HRM-Swim is really uncomfortably sweaty out of the water.