Why are HRmax and RHR values in my user profile different from those i see in reports?

9401974 3 months ago

I have Vivoactive 5 and in the Connect App, I can see my resting heart rate (RHR) and maximum heart rate under Settings -> User Profile. However, these values are different (lower HRmax and higher RHR) from those under Reports -> All activities.

Shouldn't HRmax be the highest recorded value and RHR, the average of all recorded values? Why doesn't they reflect in my User Profile?

flocsy🤠 3 months ago

1. wrong forum. Maybe: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/vivoactive-5-series or https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-andriod

2. there are some "known" (at least to us users, not sure about Garmin employees) bugs. I also reported some where the avg > max (it was for a lap HR) So it is possible you found another bug.

What I would do is create screenshots, "report" it in the proper forum, and then report it to customer support (I usually send them the link to my report in the forum)

FlowState 3 months ago

I think that RHR in your user profile might be the 7-day average (if you have it set to use the automatic value, as opposed to a manual value).

https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=F8YKCB4CJd5PG0DR9ICV3A

Not sure what you mean when you say the RHR is higher than that in Reports > All Activities, since obviously the all activities report doesn’t have resting HR. Did you mean health and fitness > resting HR?

Can’t speak to the max HR thing, except:

- the algorithm may be ignoring outliers/spikes. A few years ago, a Firstbeat employee (HermanB) said something in the forums about how algorithm takes the highest HR that can be confidently used (or words to that effect.) Can’t find the exact quote now unfortunately, and I don’t think he’s posted here for years.

- recently (in the past couple of years I think) the algorithm has changed so that your max HR can get lower as your high HR during activities gets lower (which indicates increasing fitness). IOW the fitter you get, the harder it is to push your HR to high values. I’ve def seen the converse, where I can hit higher values when I’m out of shape.

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/309583/max-heart-rate-changed-without-meeting-the-new-max-heart-rate-during-the-activity

I should note that, if you have Auto Detect turned on, the watch will continue to adjust your Max HR to lower values when your High HR in activities continues to get lower as your fitness increases. As your fitness increases, so does the efficiency of your heart, so the Max HR reading will continue to lower. You will see this more frequently if you set a higher Max HR manually than the watch calculates based on the history on your watch.

9401974 3 months ago in reply to FlowState

Thank you!

Regarding RHR: my 7-day average is 57 and my 1-year average is 66.

But on my user profile, it is 73. I have not set it to use the automatic value and neither did I enter the manual value.