Heart Rate Monitors or Calorie Counter Watches for Swimming!?

Question

Since the summer has almost arrived i plan on swimming everyday. I know that there are watches out there that monitor calories burned and your heart rate while you are exercising but is there any inexpensive watch that is good for swimmers? The watches that i have found require you wear a chest strap so i didn't know if there was an alternative route out there. Please help!

Answer 1

to measure the heart rate i think you might need the strap around the chest or at least around the arm and im not sure if they have one inexpensive, and yes they have the watches like this:http://www.amazon.com/Highgear-Pedometer...

but really i dont know about the heart rate =/ sorry but maybe this can help give an estimate of how many calories you're burning:

http://www.webmd.com/content/tools/1/cal...

hope i helped