Abnormal Heart rate function

my Fenix shows no higher heart rate than about 110bpm without started activity. How should the abnormal heart rate high function work when a value of 140 bpm has been set.
Are there experiences?

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Hier over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21 +3 suggested

ok thanks, but the problem is that the heart rate never really gets higher than 110/120 bpm if I don't start any activity.
JeremyBlck over 5 years ago in reply to Hier +3

Hier said:
Thank you for your help but i don't want to talk about heart rate problems in this forum anymore.

It’s sad really. The ‘my watch is perfect’ crowd wins. For me the WHR is far from perfect…
Hier over 5 years ago in reply to johanwiren +2

It is basically the question of how high the heart rate really is if I set it to 100 bpm.
Thank you for your help but i don't want to talk about heart rate problems in this forum anymore.

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0 Odie21 over 5 years ago

When there is no activity running, if your HR is 140 or higher for 10 consecutive minutes, an alarm will go off notifying you. The same apples to a Low HR as well.

+1 Hier over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21

ok thanks, but the problem is that the heart rate never really gets higher than 110/120 bpm if I don't start any activity.

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to Hier

The high heart rate alert will only activate if you have not moved for 10 minutes or more and your heart rate climbs above the threshold you set.

Unless I’m doing my lunchtime stairs and hills circuit my heart rate won’t go much above 89-90 during the day and even then it’ll ’only go to 120 or so.

If you are suggesting you have a problem with your watch then you should raise the issue with Garmin Support

0 Simone.01 over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21

Odie21 said:
for 10 consecutive minutes

I knew after 10 minutes without movement not after 10 minutes with high HR.

+1 Dr Phil over 5 years ago

From the manual -

"You can set the device to alert you when your heart rate exceeds a certain number of beats per minute (bpm) after a period of inactivity."

In other words you need to be inactive, immobile, not moving with an elevated heart rate above your threshold.

0 Hier over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

all right, you can't actually test that. I am only worried that this function will not work for me, because I have not yet managed to get the watch to display more than 111 bpm without starting an activity. But maybe my sensor has a defect.

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to Hier

Set a lower threshold.

0 tess over 5 years ago in reply to Hier

Hier said:
this function will not work for me, because I have not yet managed to get the watch to display more than 111 bpm without starting an activity.

If you're inactive and immobile for 10 minutes plus, why would you want to set it to 140? Under those conditions your HR shouldn't be more than the default setting of 100 anyway. What is your RHR?

0 tess over 5 years ago in reply to Simone.01

Simone.01 said:
minutes

I knew after 10 minutes without movement not after 10 minutes with high HR.

10 minutes without activity or movement is correct, not 10 consecutive mins with the high HR.

0 Hier over 5 years ago in reply to tess

100 bpm are not a problem for a body in the short term. If I have such a function then it should really be useful, and that would be for me from 130bpm upwards.