On my 5X heart rate is a lot more smooth - especially noticeable during sleep. Not all the jumps around as the 3HR had. Empirical evidence only based on first night with it :)
Any suggestions on how you wear your belt to optimise the HR reading?
I did my first run this morning with F5 and F3 on the same left hand. F3 connected to HRM-Run, F5 with its wrist HR and the F5 HR was most of the time higher than the HRM-Run which I trust to be real. So for 30min run the average HR of F5 was 153 and F3 was 150 (this is quite a lot) - sometimes the F5 was 20 beats more than F3. I am not worried, I am sure I must learn how to wear the watch so I was hoping to hear what others are doing.
Also very interesting to note that after I enabled HRV in the watch, I could see the HRV graph in SportTracks, though it was very 'bumpy' compared to a normal HRV graph from a belt HRM. Maybe from these reading the watch can offer performance indicators only from wrist HR, though I do hope the data to be more accurate than what I saw after this run.
I would have worn the F3 on the right wrist to avoid making it harder than it already is for the F5's oHR ;-)
Your results sound pretty typical, the problem with the oHR is that its performance varies a lot from run to run, be it easy runs or interval sessions, depends on the temperature (when it's cold it's generally terrible), etc...so it can get very frustrating. Bottom line is that if you want reliable HR data you need to use an chest strap. The oHR is still handy to monitor your average HR at night.
What do you mean by enabling HRV ? Are you referring to the "Performance Condition" metric ? Normally this would use HRV but since no oHR on the market today can determine proper HRV Garmin are probably defaulting to a simple PACE/HR ratio when not using a chest strap...and hopefully using actual HRV data from the chest strap when it's used!
I would have worn the F3 on the right wrist to avoid making it harder than it already is for the F5's oHR ;-)
Your results sound pretty typical, the problem with the oHR is that its performance varies a lot from run to run, be it easy runs or interval sessions, depends on the temperature (when it's cold it's generally terrible), etc...so it can get very frustrating. Bottom line is that if you want reliable HR data you need to use an chest strap. The oHR is still handy to monitor your average HR at night.
What do you mean by enabling HRV ? Are you referring to the "Performance Condition" metric ? Normally this would use HRV but since no oHR on the market today can determine proper HRV Garmin are probably defaulting to a simple PACE/HR ratio when not using a chest strap...and hopefully using actual HRV data from the chest strap when it's used!
in the watch under Physiological metrics I have Log HRV (sorry, not enable...)
In SportTracks when I import a FIT file with HR data, IF that FIT file has HRV enabled, I get the HRV graph, that is why I was surprised to get the HRV graph from F5 based on wrist HR. I also imported the file into GoldenCheetah which now is able to show R-R data, and, yes, the data is there as well - so Garmin is trying to analyse HRV based on wrist HRM which I thought it was inaccurate...
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that setting...and nor was the manual ;-)
But it is not working well at least in my case - the graph looks like I was having thousands of extrasistolae which is not the case... so let's see how Garmin can improve this reading over time.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that setting...and nor was the manual ;-)
It only appears in the 2.40 update, so that's why people may have missed this when originally setting up their watches on 2.00, and probably why it's not in the manual (which seems to have been written in January). Seems odd that it's Off by default when the other metrics are On.
