Track swims with your Fitbit device and Pixel Watch

Use any of the 4 most common strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

To help monitor your progress, you can track your swim duration, laps and pool lengths completed with your Fitbit device. Remember to enter your pool length before you start your workout for accurate distance measurement. For instructions, go to Set the pool length.

Most Fitbit devices are water-resistant up to 50 meters. For more information, go to Can I swim or shower with my Fitbit device?

Tips:

• A swim workout counts toward your active minutes and calories burned goals. You don’t earn steps for swimming.
• Heart-rate tracking is enabled during your swim workout with your Google Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 only.

Based on your device, choose to track your swims automatically, or use the Exercise app 👁 Image
to start and stop your swim workout. After your workout, check additional stats in the Exercise tile 👁 Image
of the Google Health app 👁 Image
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For automatic tracking, sync your device with the Google Health app to find your stats in your exercise days from the Today tab 👁 Image
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To set your pool length, check the instructions in Set the pool length.

*Water lock turns on automatically when you start a swim workout 👁 Image
in the Exercise app. To turn it off:

• Charge 6, Charge 5, Inspire 3, Inspire 2, and Luxe: Firmly tap your screen twice.
• Versa 4 and Sense 2: Press the button once.
• Versa 3 and Sense: Press the button twice.
• Google Pixel Watch series: Press and hold the crown for 2 seconds.

For more information, refer to Can I swim or shower with my Fitbit device?

Enter the pool length in meters or yards before you start your swim. Remember to update the pool length if you use a different pool size.

To change the unit of measurement you use for pool length, refer to How do I change the units of measurement in Google Health?

Even if you’re a novice swimmer, your Fitbit device can record your swims. This means that you can swim about 6 to 12 laps of the pool without stops or pausing to rest.

If you’re unable to swim this distance, you may notice inconsistencies in your swim data. As your swimming ability and strokes improve, the accuracy of your data improves as well. For more information, go to Check inconsistencies in your swim data.

Inconsistencies in your swim data may be caused by any of the following:

• You completed only a few laps.
• You stopped to rest multiple times or in the middle of the pool.
• You stopped to rest for longer than 60 seconds after you completed a pool length.
• You changed your stroke type midway through a lap.
• You swam with a kickboard or without using your arms.
• You swam less than the minimum duration needed for your swim to be automatically recognized.
• The watch is not secured tightly to your wrist.
• The water is too cold or the currents are too strong.
• The watch detects that the swimming strokes are irregular.

You can set goals before you start a swim. These can help you hit targets and measure your progress at the same time. There are 4 goals:

• Lap count
• Time
• Distance
• Calories

To set goals:

1. Open the Exercise app 👁 Image
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2. Tap Swim 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Goals 👁 Image
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3. Turn on Goal mode.
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4. Set your Laps, Time, Distance, or Calories goal.
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Use Gemini to help track and control your workouts on your Google Pixel Watch. For more information, refer to Gemini on Google Pixel Watch.

You can review your workout performance summary after a swim on your Google Pixel Watch or in the Google Health app. This summary provides a breakdown of key metrics that you can tap or filter to explore in more detail. These metrics include:

• Cardio load
• General stats, such as duration, heart rate, and calories burned
• Heart rate details and time spent in each heart rate zone

To check a summary from the Google Health app on your phone:

From the Today tab 👁 Image
under Activity, tap the swim you want to check.