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All day heart rate not taking into account HR during activities

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Did some searching on this subject but couldn't really find the info I was looking for.

I wear a vivosmart HR as my activity tracker, and use a FR630 with HR-run strap for all my running activities.

During a typical running activity, my HR will usually peak at somewhere around 165-180 depending on the intensity of the session, however my high HR for any given day has never recorded any higher than 160, and generally sits about 145-150.

While I do not start an activity on my vivosmart when I run (no need since the FR630 is recording the activity), I have checked it during runs and noticed that it regularly is unable to capture my HR at any higher than about 160, so I suspect this may be having an effect on my daily high HR stat as well.

So my questions are:

1) How does garmin connect calculate "high HR" for a given day? Does it create an average of your various high points for the day as it seems to with resting HR?

2) Is there a way for garmin connect to take into account the HR readings from my FR630 when it is calculating my high HR for the day?


Any help appreciated. I would really like to be able to easily track trends in my peak HR by scrolling through the app but obviously can't do that if it is giving wrong read outs
  • maximum HR

    I also notice very inconsistent/poor tracking of maximum 'all day HR' on the GC App - (the resting HR - marginal as well)

    Last Wednesday for instance - I did two hard workouts (AM and PM) both of which had HR of 179 and 181 (via strap). Yet the result for that day....178 - not far off - but many other days it is even further off. Just noted that one since it was two workouts with peaks above 178....yet it said maximum for the day was 178. The day before my run had plenty of 145-147HR...yet said daily 'max' was 140...

    I appreciate the attempt to filter out some of the noise HR that gets detected at times with the optical during the day (would appreciate they were filtered out alltogether...(like gone!)) - but during activity results are usually very steady/good.

    Recommend using the website looking in Reports "Maximum HR" for the various types of activities....better source of 'un-garminized' data.....