10 Best Swim Watches and Fitness Trackers in 2022

Noor August 14, 2022

If you’re planning on getting back into shape this summer, or just want to make sure that you have some extra motivation while swimming in the pool, then a swimming watch is an essential gadget. A good swimming watch will not only track your laps and give you feedback on your performance, but it can also keep up with other activities like cycling as well. Best of all they are affordable and come in many different styles so there is something for everyone.

In this article, we’ll talk about why you need a swim watch? what types of swimming fitness trackers or smartwatches are out there and how they can help your fitness goals. Best of all, we’re breaking down the top 10 picks for the best swimmer watches so that choosing one is easier than ever.

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Top Swimming Watches/Fitness Trackers 2022

Image	Product	Features	Price
	SAMSUNG Gear Fit2 Pro Smartwatch	1.5" AMOLED Display Water resistance: 50m Swimming Apps	Check Price
	Garmin Swim 2, GPS Swimming Smartwatch	Distance/Stroke count SWOLF score Underwater HR tracking	Check Price
	Garmin Vivosmart 4	Water resistance: 50m Body level optimization Stress tracking	Check Price
	3D Fitness Tracker and Real Time Audio Coach	Swimming metrics Water resistance: 30m 6 months battery life	Check Price
	HUAWEI Band 3 Pro All-in-One Fitness Activity Tracker	Water Resistance: 50m Sleep/Heart rate tracking GPS	Check Price
	Withings Pulse HR	Water resistance: 50m Smart notifications Multi-Sports mode	Check Price
	Honor Band 5 Smart Watch	Water resistance: 50m Calories/SWOLF score Swim-stroke recognition	Check Price
	Mi band 4 Xiaomi Global Version Fitness Tracker	Water resistance: 50m Activity tracking 24/7 health monitoring	Check Price
	Fitbit Charge 3 Special Edition Fitness Activity Tracker	Water Resistance: 50m Personal dashboard 7-day battery life	Check Price

1. Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro – Best Swimming Watch

It comes in a 1.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen display which gives it a really elegant look. The design is sleek and doesn’t weigh too much for swimming. It is offering a wide range of features; heart rate tracking, smart notifications, 4GB of internal storage, etc. overall, the watch is well built and comes at affordable prices for your fitness tracking.

Samsung did a pretty good job manufacturing it because you can take this smartwatch almost anywhere and it will work; yes, it includes using this smartwatch under the water too. Samsung Gear fit2 Pro can resist the intrusion of water up to 50m, which means you can wear it while swimming, showering, etc.

In order to give you more insights about your swimming, it is equipped with the “Speedo On” app which can give you all the details you want about your swimming and much more. And if you are not satisfied with it, you can always download a third-party app and enjoy detailed tracking of your swimming.

It comes with some really amazing apps for making you achieve your fitness goals and work harder to stay fit and healthy. You can count every mile you run on “MapMyRun” and can get details about your nutrition from “MyFitnessPalm” and many more.

It comes with heart rate tracking, which means your heart rate gets tracked 24/7, efficiently. You can always check your heart rate after a run or swimming to know if the spikes aren’t too high or how can you control the rapid irregularities overall.

Leave your phone at home while going for a run, because it has convenient GPS tracking which will track your location and your activities pretty accurately. It will keep track of your every run and even indoor activities like swimming and much more. Hence, you and your activities are getting tracked easily through it.

It is actually a combination of a regular smartwatch and a fitness tracker because it can receive calls, text messages, and various other notifications on it without necessarily making you pull out your phone. However, it uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology, which means it is bound to distance in order to perform these functions.

It has a standalone music player that doesn’t really need your smartphone in order to play music because it has 4GB of internal storage for that manner and you can download any song of your choice and make a playlist of your own.

Even though it’s compatible with both android and iOS smartphones having operating systems 4.4 and 9.0 and above, respectively. But, not every feature is available when it is paired with iOS smartphones. You can check the list of compatible smartphones on the website of this wearable, but it is better to connect its smartphones to Samsung for better performance.

Battery life is always dependent on usage, because if the use of the smartwatch will be minimum, the battery drainage will be less, but if your smartwatch is offering GPS tracking, then you should make your mind that the battery life will be average.

However, this smartwatch promises to last for days after a single charge, but the reality can often be disappointing. So, it can last up to a day or two with the usage of GPS and other apps, which is quite good.

Specifications:

• Color: Liquid black
• Weight: 1.12 ounces
• Display: 1.2-inch AMOLED
• Batteries: 1 CR2 battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Heart rate monitoring
• Music player
• Smart notifications
• GPS tracking
• Goal crushing apps
• Stable battery life

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2. Garmin Swim 2 – Best Watch For Underwater Heart Rate Tracking

A smartwatch that is designed solely for swimmers and is the best Garmin watch for swimming under the water. Garmin Swim 2 comes with a solid design, comfy straps, easy to read display, and 5 buttons on its sides, it can be the perfect pick for you because a swimming smartwatch can’t get any better than this.

This smartwatch has the ability to track your workout inside the open water of lakes, oceans, and rivers of any kind, and that too with the help of GPS technology, due to which the tracking becomes reliable. In open water, you can record your distance, stroke count/rate and SWOLF score to make your training more efficient.

If you prefer swimming in the pool instead of open water, it can track it too. You have to set the pool length first and then leave on it this Garmin swim 2 which is there to completely track your session. It also has a new auto rest feature which will tell your resting and swimming intervals without manually pressing any buttons or commands and that’s really amazing.

Almost all the fitness bands have the heart rate tracking feature, but none of them have this type of tracking under the water. Yes, it tracks your heart rate specifically after your swimming session, which can be really amazing for a regular swimmer to get insights about it. With the help of Garmin Connect, you can see your heart rate during you’re swimming too and the display makes it easy to read under the water too. You can compare your heart rate while resting or during swimming and how much control do you need in order to keep it closer to constant.

Unlike most smartwatches, it doesn’t slow you down when swimming because it is quite lightweight and slim, in general. It is designed specifically for using it under the water, so the always-on, colorful, Garmin Chroma Display is quite bright and is easy to read under the water or in sharp sunlight. Along with this beautiful design, the button comes in handy in viewing your workouts and changing your setting all along.

Yes, it is made for swimming but to make you connected with the outer world all the time, it also comes with this amazing feature where it will receive all the notifications of an incoming call, text messages, emails, and much more. By syncing with the compatible smartphone, you can also be a part of Garmin’s online community where you can socialize and share your stats with your friends.

Swimmers need to be physically fit in order to perform well in their sessions, and it won’t happen if they are not sleeping well or taking stress all the time. Well, this smartwatch has the solution to both these problems. It comes with advanced sleep tracking which helps them in seeing if they are getting the required sleep they want.

Along with this, it can also track your stress level and provide a breathing guide so that you can perform and train better during swimming.

Garmin swim 2 can be heaven for swimmers because it has some extra features related to swimming which is not available in any smartwatch or fitness tracker mentioned above. First off, your anaerobic threshold speed gets calculated through its critical swim speed, which is amazing. Secondly, turn-based pacing alerts let you stay on your track and meet your goals more efficiently. Along with these, it has “Drill logging” which comes in handy in tracking distance and time during different drills; one arm swimming, kicking, and sculling.

With all these advanced swimming-related features, I wouldn’t be surprised if its battery cannot last for more than 2-3 days, because advanced features and battery drainage are directly proportional to each other. But, Garmin claims that it lasts for 13 hours in GPS mode, 72 hours in the pool and open water, and more than 7 days in smartwatch mode, which is quite good.

Specifications:

• Color: Slate
• Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Batteries: 1 Lithium-ion battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Underwater heart rate tracking
• Swimproof
• Smart notifications
• Advanced swimming features
• Easy compatibility

3. Garmin Vívosmart 4 – Waterproof Fitness Tracker

This slim, stylish Garmin waterproof fitness tracker has the ability to keep track of your activities, your body optimization level, stress tracking, and much more, that too at an affordable price. It can’t get any better than this especially when it has the ability to be your swimming partner. With a bright, easy-to-read display and stylish metal accents, it is a really well-built wristband tracker for sure.

Garmin Vivosmart 4 comes with a water resistance of 5ATM, which means up to 50m you can do anything with your watch and it won’t get damaged in any way possible. If you are into swimming professionally and don’t just do it to relax your muscles and yourself, then it can be your perfect pick for it.

It provides your swim metric and its stats accurately, so you can work out to make them better. You can set the pool size and your skill level from the device, which in return will you detailed insights about the lengths and laps you have covered in a specific time.

If you are making an activity profile and the recorded number of lengths doesn’t match your number, you can easily edit it for accuracy but I guess you will not need it because it does the tracking pretty accurately.

And yes, all your data gets synced with Garmin’s Connect app, through which you can have a look at your stats, more clearly.

It comes with a sleep monitoring feature, which tracks your sleep and different stages of it; Light, deep, and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) during sleep and you can always check the details about it. For more insights, you can turn on the “Pulse Ox” feature which will tell you the blood oxygen level throughout your sleep. You can get insights about all of this on Garmin’s Connect app.

It is actually a feature where the blood oxygen saturation level of your body gets measured. You can use it for understanding your body is absorbing the oxygen which again varies from person to person and their health.

By using the data from your sleep monitoring, Heart rate variability (HRV), and another activity tracking, helps you in optimizing your body’s energy in the right way. It works in numbers and rating for it, which means that a higher indicates that you pumped up and do work in a better way, but if the number fell short to a reasonable value, it means you need to relax and make yourself compose first if you are thinking of doing a workout.

It also keeps track of the previous day’s data and can help you give details about how you have been feeling lately, depending solely upon the data from your physical strength.

Get yourself a smartwatch that can help you in relieving stress along with multi-tasking another thing. It actually tells you if you are having a calm or a stressful day, and if the latter is the case, it gives you a soft vibration on your wrist and displays a message “Take a moment to breathe”. It displays your stress level using the HRV so that you can relax for a while to get more organized and composed to work better.

It comes with a heart rate monitoring feature which gives you details about it 24/7. It can notify you if the heart rate drops or shoots a threshold you’ve already set. So, during a heavy workout and in any situation of distress, if your heart rate is showing irregular spikes, you will get an alert.

Along with personalized activity tracking, it comes with the basic tracking of its own which keeps an eye on the step count, distance traveled, amount of calories burnt, and the number of floors you’ve climbed. You will get a vibration alert whenever it’s time for you to run and achieve your fitness goals.

You can track different workouts and exercises including walking, swimming, cycling, and elliptical training and it does it on its own, which means if you forget to start the modes which track them, it will automatically track it and upload it on the Garmin Connect, where you can review, edit and share your stats with your friends and loved ones.

With all the fitness activities and amazing apps, it still can work as a regular smartwatch that receives text messages, incoming calls, and notifications of any kind. You can even reply to the text messages using it, but this feature is only available when it is paired with android.

Garmin claims that it can last up to 7 days with all these features, which is frankly, too good to be true. But, it solely depends upon the user’s usage and even with all these features, if it can last up 2-3 days after a single charge, it is a win-win situation for it anyway.

Specifications:

• Color: Midnight w/ Black Band
• Weight: 0.64 ounces
• Batteries: 1 Lithium-ion battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep tracking
• Heart rate monitoring
• Smart notifications
• Body level optimization
• Stress level tracking
• Swimproof
• Sports mode
• Long-lasting battery life

4. Moov Now – Fitness Tracker For Swimming, Running And Cycling

If you are looking for a tension-free package for tracking your swimming and other workouts or exercises without having the headache to charge it all the time, this is can be it for you. Moov now is such an amazing fitness tracker which does its works quite efficiently without letting you possibly know it’s there, because of light-weight. However, there’s no display, so you just have to stick with the mobile app, in order to enjoy its features.

It may not be able to show your swimming metrics on your smartwatch or under the water, but it has the ability to keep track of your swimming more than any regular fitness tracker. It comes with 3ATM water resistance, which means even if you submerge it 30m deep into the water, it won’t get damaged.

In order to track your swimming session, you have to customize the settings first, after that it will be able to track your Stroke recognition, Flipturn duration, Stroke rate, lap counting, and SWOLF (Swim Golf) and give you detailed insights about these metrics in the mobile app.

It is an extremely lightweight fitness tracker which is the perfect thing for swimming because you don’t want any burden on your hands for strokes. Along with that, if you want to monitor heart rate during swimming, you can “Moov HR” which is a kind of device that will monitor your heart rate efficiently during the session.

It comes with a built-in feature that tracks your running and provides real-time audio coaching in order to achieve your fitness goals. You can also work on your stride, pace, cadence, and many other techniques which will allow you to run faster and for a longer time.

With real-time audio coaching, you can enhance your skills and work in the right direction. During cycling, it is recommended that you wear it on your ankle and let the app tell you the metrics about it, to take your biking to the next level. It acts as a bike computer, by keeping you updated with how you are doing and constantly providing teaching to make it better.

If you are into boxing, well then it can be an interesting feature for you as it comes with built-in choreographed boxing tutorials and workouts, which obviously will help you on the basic level to strengthen your game and provide all necessary help for that manner. But, in order to enjoy this amazing feature, you have to wear it on both of your wrists, which kind of will throw you off a little bit, because you would have to buy two fitness trackers instead of one for it.

It will even count the reps for you and provide audio and visual training on the app of 7+ on how to improve and work in the right direction.

It comes with basic activity tracking and keeps an eye on a sleep schedule and tells you active minutes along with calories in the count. In sleep tracking it will give you details about the different stages of sleep; Light, deep, and REM.

Are you tired of charging your smartwatch/fitness tracker all the time? Well here’s the solution for it, because Moov now here comes with the battery life that can last up to 6 months, which is quite insane.

Specifications:

• Color: Stealth
• Weight: 0.32 ounces
• Batteries: 1 CR123A battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Activity tracking
• Swimming metrics
• Cycling
• Running/walking
• Sports mode
• Long-lasting battery life

5. HUAWEI Band 3 Pro

Huawei Band 3 Pro comes with a 0.95 inch multi-colored AMOLED touchscreen which gives it a stylish look, along with the bands which are comfy and easy to wear. The display is actually 2.5D and is quite nice and bright in general. It has some really good and advanced features, due to which it can be a really good fit for your wrist and your health.

If you are swimming in the pool or open water, it doesn’t really matter because Huawei has made sure that if you are a swimming enthusiast, you don’t have to look anywhere else while searching for a fitness tracker that can track your activities and swimming efficiently down.

Huawei Band 3 Pro is water-resistant up to 50m which makes it a Swimproof package. It has the ability to give you insights into the swimming metrics by providing all the relevant data, such as; calories, the number of turns, and average SWOLF. If you stick to the regular butterfly, backstroke, and freestyle swims, it will be able to identify it, along with that you can always get a more detailed tracking on the mobile app.

It comes with GPS technology which makes it tracking your outdoor workouts very easy. This fitness tracker has a Multi-sports feature through which you can go for a run/walk or go cycling outdoor and all your stats will be tracked easily. But this GPS feature, made it phone free package, which means you don’t have to necessarily keep your phone with you all the time for it.

Your heart rate gets tracked 24/7 efficiently because it uses IR light which is supported by AI which is quite intelligent and by the mixture of all these things, your rate gets essentially tracked.

Along with conventional sleep monitoring where your different cycles of sleep get tracked; Light, deep and REM cycles, in the collaboration with Harvard Medical School’s CDB Center, it has the ability to identify and give a solution of 6 most common sleep-related issues. Along with this, it can also give you 200 potential solutions to the problems you face during sleep and provide recommendations to give you sound sleep.

It can also work as a camera shutter with all the amazing features it has. You don’t have to carry any extra camera shutter if you are wearing this fitness tracker, because you can easily do that with it. Take unlimited selfies and group photos without any worries.

By using the Bluetooth connection, it can help you in finding your phone and you somehow cannot remember where it is. So, what it really does is that it plays your phone’s ringtone even if it has been on silent, which is quite impressive. Of course, you will have to give access to your smartphone in order to do this, but it still can be useful in many conditions.

If you don’t use the sleep monitoring and GPS tracking feature, it will probably last up to 12 days for that, which is quite normal. But, if you use these two features on the constant run, it will only last up to 7 hours, which is just average in this regard.

Specifications:

• Color: Space blue
• Weight: 0.64 ounces
• Display: AMOLED Multi-color touchscreen
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Swimproof
• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• GPS technology
• Bluetooth
• Phone finder
• Camera shutter

6. Withings Pulse HR

A fitness tracker which is slim, sleek, stylish, and elegant in design, and also doesn’t really disappoint you with its collective combination of almost all the features you desire for in a fitness tracker. It comes with a bright OLED screen that is quite wide enough to show all your messages in the form of notifications and keeps you connected with the world.

It comes with water resistance up to 50m, which makes it a pretty good fitness tracker for swimming in general. But, it isn’t really big in the features related to swimming as such, but it can do the required tasks efficiently.

It has the ability to recognize the kind of water you are into. This means it can auto-track swimming and give you insights about your session, once you are with it. It doesn’t show the metrics on display nor it has stroke recognition or lap counts, but in average pool size, it will be able to track your distance covered and the number of calories you’ve burnt. Frankly speaking, it’s not the best fitness tracker for proper swimming per se, but it can still partially track your session and you can always get extra details on the mobile app.

It has the ability to track your heart rate 24/7 which is also interconnected with multiple sports. After a heavy workout or an exercise, you can see your heart and the variations that occurred during it; light, moderate intensity, and peak spikes.

It comes with almost 30 different sports, which you can play while having it on and get it tracked easily. This sports model includes swimming, ping pong, volleyball, and much more. You can always get detailed tracking and can also customize it the way you want to in the free health mate app.

It comes with GPS tracking which can track your outdoor activities and run easily without giving you any trouble. So, run freely because this fitness tracker has got your back. It should be kept in mind that this feature works on Bluetooth mode so your phone has to be in range in order to track your outdoor workouts.

It comes with sleep monitoring which can track your different stages of sleep and you can have a look at it when you wake up. It also gives you sleep points which shows what kind of sleep you got last night.

It can give you smart notifications about incoming calls, text messages, emails, and much more by alerting you with the specific vibration.

Specifications:

• Color: Black
• Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Display: OLED touchscreen
• Batteries: 1 Lithium-ion battery required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• GPS
• Bluetooth
• Swimproof
• Smart notifications
• Sedentary reminder
• Activity tracking
• Multi-Sports mode

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7. Honor Band 5

If you are looking for a fitness tracker solely for swimming, then it is equipped with some great features which will definitely help you in improving and tracking it. The design basically comprises of 0.95 inch AMOLED touchscreen display which is really bright and easy to read in general. The display resolution is 240 x 120 which is not bad at all. Overall, it has great features and a solid design, which you are going to love for sure.

This fitness tracker right here might offer you all the features related to your swimming at such an affordable price, which I guess will leave you in shock.

It has 5ATM water resistance, which means it can withstand the intrusion of water under 50m, so it is a Swimproof package. But what really interesting about it is the number of features that have been offered; from tracking your stroke type to the distance covered and the number of calories burnt, it also keep an eye on the stroke type and give you a SWOLF score which comes in handy in giving you insights your swimming session.

In order to start the tracking, you will have to select the pool area first, before diving in, and then just leave it in Honor Band 5 for the magic.

Stay connected with the outer fitness tracker, which gives you smart notifications about incoming calls, text messages, and much more.

It comes with a built-in heart rate monitoring feature which is as advanced as it gets. It is also equipped with “Night infrared HR monitoring” which helps in tracking your heart rate all the time.

It comes with advanced sleep tracking which gives you details about the different sleep cycles during the night e.g. light, deep, and REM cycles.

Specifications:

• Color: Black
• Weight: 3.04 ounces
• Resolution: 240 x 120 pixels
• PSRAM: 8MB
• Battery capacity: 100mAh

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• Water-resistant
• Swim-stroke recognition
• Activity tracking

8. Xiaomi Mi Band 4

This fitness tracker mainly comprises of 0.95-inch AMOLED colorful display which gives quite elegant vibes. The screen resolution is 120 x 240 pixels, which makes it quite easy to read and use even under the water. Screen brightness is really good, along with the comfy bands which get hold your wrist properly. Overall, with this Swimproof design and features, it can be a good pick for you.

It comes with a water-resistant bearing capacity of up to 50m which makes it a Swimproof fitness tracker. You can set the pool size before starting the session and look at your performance metrics at the end. In general, it isn’t offering any detailed insights about it, but the distance traveled or the number of calories burnt during your swimming time.

It comes with heart rate tracking, whose job is to keep an eye on your HR and alert you if there are any severe spikes during the exercise or heavy workout.

In order to get better sleep, if you want to see your sleeping cycles throughout the night; light, deep, and REM status, you can easily check it because of this feature.

Along with having an eye on your health, it can keep a track of your physical activities and comes with multiple sports modes including Cycling, Walking, Swimming, treadmills, and outdoor running.

Not only this, but it also tells you the amount of distance you have traveled during the day, step count, and calorie intake.

Specifications:

• Color: Black
• Wight: 3.2 ounces
• Display: 0.95inch AMOLED colorful display
• Resolution: 120 x 240 pixels
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• Sports mode
• Activity tracking
• Water-resistant

9. FITFORT – Cheap Swim Tracker

Fitfort fitness tracker comes in a very stylish and eye-catching design, which can be suitable for men, kids, and even women. The colorful LCD display looks nice which also has 5 different levels of brightness, which you can use anywhere for easy readability. It has quite great features in general, along with being Swimproof which you can definitely enjoy if you go for it.

It comes with IP68 level water resistance, due to which you can jump in the pool and enjoy swimming without worrying about it getting damaged in any way. Not only it is Swimproof but it is also dust and sweatproof too, which makes it quite a reasonable choice for you.

It comes with this innovative feature, where you can even measure your blood pressure and take necessary measurements to control it if it is being too high or low.

It keeps track of your heart rate 24/7 and lets you know if there are any severe spikes during an exercise or a heavy workout of any sort.

Some people love to be lazy on weekends and sometimes the whole week, well this fitness tracker will not let you become couch potatoes by reminding you to stay fit in the form of reminders. Sometimes, all you need is a bit of motivation or even a slight reminder that you have to stay active throughout the day, and if not throughout the day, then it should at least be a fair amount of time.

Are you having trouble during sleep or in getting sleep? Well, this Fitfort fitness tracker will automatically monitor your sleep and let you know the details about it on the mobile app. Your sleep’s different cycles; light, deep, and REM will be calculated by it and you will know what measurements you have to take in order to have a more peaceful sleep.

It can support up to 14 different sports and will be able to track them efficiently. This includes Tennis, Yoga, Dance, Running, Riding, basketball, and many more.

If your friends take too much to get ready for the selfies, you don’t have to necessarily keep holding the phone in your hand and take the selfies by long-tapping on the screen of it. Yes, it will be connected with the phone app for it, and in this way, you can easily take remote photos as you want to.

It is almost compatible with every smartphone of Android having an operating system 4.4 or above and for iOS smartphones 8.0 or above is necessary.

It comes with a built-in USB plug and doesn’t need a physical charger in that regard. By pulling the band off, you can just the dial or the main display into the plug and get it charged. It takes 1-2 hours of complete charging and it can last up to 7 days, but that varies from user to user.

Specifications:

• Color: Purple
• Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Battery charging time: 1-2 hours

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• Blood pressure
• Sports mode
• Swimproof
• Different display modes
• Long-lasting battery life

10. Fitbit Charge 3 – Waterproof Fitbit For Swimming

This waterproof Fitbit for swimming is not only equipped with features related to swimming only, but you will be enjoying a lot of other features too. It comes with easy to read and eye-catching display, which will suit any wrist longing for it. The strap is comfy and suitable for all-day wearing. It has almost all the features, which a fitness tracker should have and can even surprise you with its long-lasting battery life.

When it comes to tracking any genre, Fitbit owns the game. It is water-resistant up to 5ATM which makes it a Swimproof fitness tracker. It is not just a water-resistant gadget but it has the ability to fully track your swimming session.

By using Fitbit’s SmartTrack feature, it can easily recognize when you’re swimming, along with calculating the distance and the number of calories burnt during the process.

You don’t have to manually start the session for tracking swimming and it will do the detection automatically. But, there’s one slight drawback that it doesn’t show the detailed metrics on its display and you have to open the mobile app in order to check it. Otherwise, it can be a pretty good swimming partner for you with absolute accurate tracking.

Fitbit Charge 3 comes with a built-in heart rate tracking feature, whose job is to keep track of your heart rate 24/7. After an exercise or a heavy workout, you can have a look at your HR which helps you in keeping yourself calm after taking a deep breathing session.

It supports more than 15 different sports including running, biking, swimming, yoga, circuit training and much more. You can personalize and set your goals for a day or week and see the detailed insights about them, whenever you want to.

Your sleep and other health parameters get monitored efficiently using “Fitbit Today”. If you get trouble during sleep or even if you are just curious about different stages of sleep during the night, mainly comprising of light, deep and REM stages, you easily check them in the phone app.

It’s not just a fitness tracker that’s hanging from your wrist, but it also keeps you connected with the outer world by giving you smart notifications about calls, text messages, and other notifications of any kind. So, whenever you are on a run or busy in a workout, you don’t have to necessarily use your phone in order to check the messages and stuff.

It should be kept in mind it is NOT a standalone smartwatch and it uses Bluetooth technology for it, which makes you bound to the distance which is almost 6 meters, approximately.

It also keeps track of your activities and gives details about the steps count, distance covered and the number of calories burnt during the day.

Although the battery life depends on the usage of any product, after a single charge which takes almost 2 hours in doing so, it can last up to 7 days, which is quite good as compared to its competitors.

Specifications:

• Color: Graphite/Black
• Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required (Included)

Key features:

• Sleep monitoring
• Heart rate tracking
• Personal dashboard
• Pay from watch
• Swimproof
• Activity tracking
• Sports mode

How To Choose Swimming Watch?

Before buying a swim watch, you have to ask yourself a question.

Why do I need a swimming watch or fitness tracker?

Do you need a smartwatch or fitness tracker, which you can wear during causal swimming and when you jump in the pool or while showering and washing hands? If that’s so, the gadget should only be IP68 water-resistant and it will do your work.

But, if you need a smartwatch/fitness tracker solely for swimmers and want to track your proper swimming sessions and want to get insights about length/laps, speed, stroke count, stroke recognition, SWOLF, etc, then you should go with those gadgets which are water-resistant to at least 5ATM or 50m.

IP and ATM standards:

Understanding these two standards really matters, while buying such waterproof swim watches or fitness trackers.

IP or Ingress Protection ratings are defined in international standards and they are the definite level of sealing effectiveness of the electrical products against the intrusion or exposure from outer bodies. In terms of being waterproof, IP65 to IP68 rated products are considered water-resistant to some extent. IP68 being the most common standard means that the product can withstand the intrusion of water under 1.5 for 30 minutes.

On the other hand, ATM is also the standard that shows the resistance of water. In general, water resistance up to 1ATM means that the product can withstand the intrusion of water and pressure for 10m.

Most of the smart gadgets mentioned below are 5ATM water-resistant, which means you can jump in the pool and enjoy swimming with it. It should be kept in mind that if a smartwatch is 5ATM water-resistant, it doesn’t mean that you’ll submerge into the water of any pressure, there is a definite amount of pressure that any product can withstand.

Battery life:

Whether it’s a multi sports watch, fitness tracker, or just a regular smartwatch, battery life really matters everywhere. Although this solely depends upon the usage as well, the smartwatch with long battery life is always preferred. If it can last up to 5-6 days after a single charge with mild usage of all the features, then it is good to go. But, if it can last up to a few hours and your scheduled timing for a workout gets compromised because of it, then you should not buy that particular gadget.

FAQS

Q: Can we use a fitness tracker while swimming?

Ans: Yes, a fitness tracker does not necessarily track your activities and provides health monitoring, but, it can also be used for various purposes and for instance, swimming. Given below are the best fitness trackers for swimming:

• Garmin Swim
• Garmin swim 2
• Suunto Smart Sensor
• Moov Now
• Fitbit Ionic
• Fitbit Charge 3

Q: Which Fitbit is suitable for swimming?

Ans: Almost all the Fitbit trackers are water-resistant up to some extent but only a few of them are suitable for swimming and submerging in deep water, which includes, Flex 2, Charge 3, Ionic and Versa which are water-resistant up to 50m, hence suitable for swimming.

Q: What are the best waterproof smartwatches?

Ans: Given below are some of the fine smartwatches that are water-resistant:

• Casio Pro Trek Smart WSD-F20
• Garmin Fenix 5X
• Pebble Classic
• Pebble Steel.
• LG Watch Sport
• Asus ZenWatch 3
• Samsung Gear S3
• Polar M600 Waterproof smartwatch

Q: Is Apple watch series 4 is suitable for swimming?

Ans: Yes, the Apple watch series 3, 4, and 5 can be used for swimming and you can also submerge it into the 50m deep water, without having to worry about it getting damaged in any way possible.

Q: Can you listen to music while swimming?

Ans: Well, you have to buy a waterproof music player and earphones for it, because your Bluetooth technology might not work under the water.

Conclusion: Waterproof Swimming Watch

Even though the fitness trackers mentioned above are the best in business when it comes to tracking your swimming sessions, but if I have to pick, I’d go with “Garmin swim 2”.

Garmin made sure that they maintain their position at the top when it comes to bringing ultimate sports watches to the market. But, this Garmin smartwatch is solely for swimmers, which is exactly why it doesn’t have any other sports mode.

As far as the performance and features are concerned, then it has excelled in it and provides such amazing never-seen-before features, which absolutely makes it different from its competitors.

With this awesome design which is made to last and long-lasting battery life, I guess you go for this smartwatch, you might not regret your decision and stick to it for a very long time.