Heart Rate Graph Misses Max

I have a desk job, and my heart rate hovers around 50 to 60 bpm most of the day. Today I carried a heavy box up a flight of stairs and checked my HR at the top and it was 131.

An hour later I looked at the graph, and the max is 110.

For the graph itself it has to average some readings to get 4 hours of bars across the screen, but is the min/max also averaged? I guess they might do that to prevent one or two erroneous readings from wiping out the real max.

I wasn't at 131 for very long but I'm surprised that doesn't show up on the graph as the max reading.

0 Tangmu over 8 years ago

I can understand there aren't enough dots across the screen to plot every 1-second reading, but the min and max HR for the time period are shown as numbers. It could still display the actually max.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

In Settings -> System there's an option "Data Recording" on my Fenix 5 Plus. The options to choose from are "Smart" and "Every second". Maybe that makes a difference?

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

I have a workout that includes strength and cardio. If I track it using the "Strength" widget I get much lower overall HR than if I track it using "Cardio" widget. Cardio gives me way more intensity minutes and really zaps my body battery.