Whereas for openwater swimming it’s no problem at all – and in fact I’ve used it on a number of openwater swims, as we’ll talk about. Finally, as for the battery compartment, any time a company changes battery compartment designs (be it HR straps, power meters, or more), there’s a period of time where we just have to wait and see. My assumption here is that Garmin has probably been testing this design for a year or two, and probably across a lot of internal testers. But ultimately, only time will tell if this reduces the battery compartment issues some had with the screwdriver/o-ring situation on the older HRM-PRO straps. At the same time as the HRM-Swim, Garmin introduced the HRM-Tri. This was the ‘top’ HRM device at the time in July 2015. The HRM-Tri has all the capabilities of the Swim and adds Running Dynamics to this. Sacrificing a little on battery life. Oh but it doesn’t have the swim-specific grippy strap. So you’ll get the local storage for swim sessions (as radio waves don’t work under water) but also Running Dynamics. HRM-Dual

Finally, if you want to use any of the heart rate/calorie/intensity minutes/steps offloading bits into your Garmin Connect account, then that also only works with the Garmin straps. So, the TLDR here is if you have a Garmin watch and care about any of those things, then get the Garmin strap.In general, outdoors, some people might prefer more smoothed pace that the HRM-PRO Plus will offer, however, I haven’t really had a personal need for that. Even if you choose the HRM-PRO Plus provided pace instead of GPS, I’d still likely utilize GPS for distance, unless you have severe GPS accuracy issues in the specific area you’re running. But that’s just my personal preference – you do you. Heart Rate Accuracy: TL;DR: The upgrade from the HRM-PRO to the Plus model is pointless. Other than a new battery door there is nothing to differentiate between Garmin’s top 2 heart rate monitors The part that most people here reading about are probably interested in though is Garmin watch integration. There’s essentially three levels/components of direct watch integration: First, let’s start and see how it handles steady-state running. This is a 9-mile long run from a few weeks ago, just cruising along at a relatively easy pace. In this case we’ve got the HRM-PRO as my chest strap, the COROS Pace 2 on one wrist with optical, the FR745 on the other wrist as optical HR, and then a Whoop strap on my bicep connected to the Polar Grit X. Here’s that data set:

The coin cell battery for the HRM-PRO Plus is claimed at 1 year (with 1hr/day usage). It uses a standard issue CR2032 coin cell battery. The access to said battery compartment is what changes with the HRM-PRO Plus. You’ll access that by pulling the white part off, which gets you here: Nonetheless, it’d seem slightly peculiar to have a full in-depth review of a chest strap and not include some aspect of heart rate accuracy or comparison testing. So, in this case I did exactly that. I’ve compared it against a slew of other options on the market: This is super confusing :s I don’t remember having any cadence data when using the Fenix 6 without my strap (HRM-RUN in this case), could you confirm? If so, then it is strange that the cadence data comes from the watch. Accuracy-wise, for both heart rate as well as pace/distance, it seems spot-on. In fact, I think the HRM-PRO Plus is more of a threat to Stryd than Garmin’s recent semi-native running power. Many people have used Stryd primarily as a footpod to have more even pacing in GPS-challenged situations. This is half the price of Stryd, but includes heart rate as well. And my guess is that if someone is concerned about exact run pacing, they’re probably also concerned with exact HR accuracy (thus, they’d have bought a strap too). So again, two for the price of half. Or, something like that. I got an HRM-Pro Plus this week because I thought it would simplify my sensor lifestyle being able to supply high quality HRM, running dynamics, and speed/distance for treadmill. But the running dynamics seem completely flaky. I have used it 3 times and in two of the runs the running dynamics stopped recording after manually pausing at an intersection and were not recorded for the next 30 minutes to an hour of running. This is the v8.80 firmware.

Bez HRM-Pro se neobejdu

And then using a small screwdriver to remove the four screws. Inside there’s an o-ring you’ll want to take care not to damage, and then the coin cell battery: Ok, so in my testing, I simply use the strap throughout my usual workouts. Those workouts include a wide variety of intensities and conditions, making them great for accuracy testing. I’ve got steady runs, interval workouts on both bike and running, as well as tempo runs and rides, and so on. A side question: How accurate is the Fenix 6’s optical sensor while in the water? Would upgrading to Fenix 7 yield any improvements there? Note that the running dynamics only work with the HRM Pro and Pro Plus if it is connected with ANT+ and not Bluetooth. The strap is made of the same fabric that the HRM-TRI is made of, which I’ve found pretty comfortable (and I don’t think I’ve seen any complaints on that strap). You can change the size of the strap by tweaking the little clasp thingy. Garmin states the minimum chest size for this strap is 23.5” (60cm), and the maximum is 42” (106cm). However, you can also buy an extender which takes it to 56” (142cm).

Offline stahování dat tepové frekvence uměla už první generace HRM-Tri a HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro tak vlastně nepřináší nic převratně nového. Data ale umí stáhnout zpětně i v jiných aktivitách než plavání, což se hodí tehdy, když třeba jedete na kole nebo běžíte a nemáte hodinky připojené k hruďáku. Upřímně ale nevím, jaký to má význam, když mám hrudní pás na sobě, tak ho mám vždy připojen k hodinkám nebo navigaci a nemám potřebu data stahovat offline. Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN). Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in Switzerland, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Garmin is a registered trademark. I have no quibbles with the data, either. My last 10 mile time trial ride shows an average heart rate of 187bpm and a max of 194bpm. I’ve not compared this against another device but I’ve ridden enough 10 mile time trials to know that this is bang on where it should be for the effort. With that paired up, we can go ahead and put on the strap. As an adult in 2022, I’ll assume you know how to put on a heart rate strap. If not, I’d suggest just wearing it like Borat’s mankini. Whether or not you find value in the Running Dynamics metrics is up to you. Personally, I don’t find much value there at this point. Years later, and I’m still not super clear what to do with the data. My coach finds some value in a handful of the metrics in terms of seeing some impacts of fatigue in a longer run.And that’s it. Best of all, sometime today, the existing HRM-PRO will receive a firmware update that adds the transmission of pace/distance to the firmware [Update: Went out as planned as version 8.80]. Which basically means, software-wise, the HRM-PRO & HRM-PRO Plus straps will be identical (for now anyways, all bets are off for the future). Obviously, the battery door and color-changing bits are hardware, so existing HRM-PRO straps don’t get that magically via firmware update.