The Apple Watch is a computer that is prepared to be able to carry out physical activity, even aquatic. Swimming is a physical exercise carried out by many users and it is certainly necessary to do it well and monitor it.
In addition to the native Activity application in the App Store, you can find other apps that are ready to take this data on the watch. In this article we analyze MySwimPro so that you can carry out your workouts perfectly.
Predefined training plans
Whether you are an expert or a beginner in the world of swimming, this is an application that is designed for you. You can choose between different levels of difficulty depending on your physical condition and also on your knowledge in this world. The level of difficulty between beginner, intermediate and progressing in both water sports and land training will be requested.
The application includes different predefined and professionally prepared workouts. The only problem is that to access these training programs you need to pay a monthly or annual subscription for the services as if you were in a gym.
Within these training plans, those that seek to improve speed, shape or crawl for beginners stand out. In this way it is pursued that you improve all your times. What the application does is explain a series of exercises that improve a specific skill in swimming. Measurements will be made of both the distance traveled, the speed or the style of the croll. Obviously each of the plans is prepared for a specific group of people depending on the skill. To give an example, with the ‘starting for beginners’ plan you will need to complete 3 workouts per week for 2 weeks. Each of these workouts lasts a total of 10-20 minutes so you can complete a 1km workout. In all the plans you will find an explanation similar to this and all the positions that you should be doing.
Obviously the registration and communication of the type of exercise will appear on your watch that you can submerge underwater. All the constants that are taken will also appear automatically in the Health application.
Training creation
If you do not want to use these workouts that have been created by different professionals, you can choose to create your own. You can do this by entering the ‘+’ sign that you will find on the main page of the device. Here you can enter different parameters such as the duration, the calories you want to burn and also the distance from the pool. Then you will be able to create different series by entering the repetitions, the interval, the distance of the series and the type of stroke you want, for example, crawl, back, breaststroke, butterfly …
You will be able to adjust the series and the order of these groups, adjusting the number of the series. At any time you can run them both from the iPhone and from the Apple Watch so that you can quickly be developing your physical activity.
Differences with Activity
As we have previously commented on the iPhone, the Activity application is included natively that also records all these parameters of swimming. But obviously there are many differences that mainly lie in training. The activity app only makes a measurement of the distance that has been swum but in no case advises on training. This makes the specialized MySwimPro application highly recommended, especially for those who are starting out in this physical activity.
Board
The record of the exercises you are doing will be present in the ‘board’ section. In this way you can be registered to see what physical activity in the pool you have done to be able to better adjust the day’s plan. At the top you will always find a series of challenges that you can join. You will enter a ranking with people from all over the world although the truth is that these challenges are not too easy and you will only join and appear at the top if you have previous experience.
