Got a Finis Tempo Trainer
New toy: Finis tempo trainer.
Question: how do I start with it? How do I implement it into my pool sessions?
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New toy: Finis tempo trainer.
Question: how do I start with it? How do I implement it into my pool sessions?
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Let us know your impressions moving forward
I am using it to (hopefully?) speed up my stroke rate in mode 3. I have it beep when my right hand enters the water. I used to average (right hands) 32 per 50 metres, and I am now up to 36. Of course the usual way of counting strokes would double these numbers.
BTW, I use it all the time except for my hard 25 as part of my 50s. Of course, I am in the OS and am doing these twice a week. 5 x 300 metres at my CSS, followed by 8 x 50 (25 hard, 25 easy).
I must say, so far, it has been easy to increase my stroke rate by just increasing the number in mode 3 by 1 each week. My pace has increased along with the increased stroke rate.
Scott, in addition to what everyone else has said here (they're all correct), I also think Mode 1 is great for simply following Coach R's swim workouts. When we (on the team) try to do his 5x400@TP plus 3 seconds, for example, I'm willing to bet that 95% of us just wing it. Then, when we review the workout on TP, GC, etc., we probably learn that we weren't that close to TP+3 at all, assuming we even know what our TP really is. And even if we got lucky and hit the time once, we didn't hit the rest of them. And even on that one where we hit the time right, we probably didn't evenly split it. With the TT, you can now nail those workouts to the second with perfectly even splits.
They have other articles on their blog talking about the device too.
I bought one a couple years ago and it died of neglect. Never used it. They wouldn't replace it either. Apparently I wasn't the only one as those early models were crap. Not that expensive though, considering the money spent on other gadgets, so I'll get another one. Thanks for the reminder.
::update:: just ordered a new one. cheaper on swimoutlet.com than all3sports.com same as amazon.com
When I first started, I 'found' my cadence by just working up through the 40's in Mode 3 until I found the beep rate that matched.
I wish there was a Mode 1 + 3 that marked cadence during the set and had a different alert at the wall but that is probably asking too much for a $40 device