Fenix 3 Heartrate not reading

Former Member over 5 years ago

Hello Garmin Comm - I am having an issue with my Fenix 3 and a paired HR Strap. I do inline skating and often skate with the hands / arms behind the back. Once I do this my HR strap is not picking up on the watch. On long 20m+ training sessions putting the arms behind for areo / energy conservation is the norm. What can I do to help this issue. Do I need to get a different HR ban?

0 Ocean5 over 5 years ago

Did you try replacing battery in HR strap?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Ocean5

No, Because it has always done that even new. I will replace though to see if that helps any.

0 Frank over 5 years ago

That is not a problem of the battery. I'm quite sure that there is no solution for arms behind the body, my heart rate strap loses connection if i put my back pack on and have one arm a short amout of time behind my back. It seems that the body will completely block the signal from the heart rate strap.

0 7842048 over 5 years ago

same thing here with 935 and iceskating.

an option would be to use your phone around my neck to connect to HRstrap and take wristHR with your watch. Unfortunatly 935 automatically connects to HRstrap as soon as he sees it. Pausing HRstrap automatic connection would solve that but dont seem possible.