Breath work & Respiratory rate Accuracy

Former Member over 4 years ago

I have a Fenix 6S Pro, wondering if anyone else finds the accuracy bit off with the respiratory rate? I know it can’t be 100% reliable but when I do my meditations and breath work I often go down to 3 breaths a minute for 10-60 minutes, but this is not reflected on the device... It gets stuck between 8-13 breaths per minute.

I dont use the breath work app for it either because I’ve been doing it for years I downloaded another app for it, but because developers aren’t able to select breathwork for the application, it’s defaulting to cardio, which I have to manually go in and update. Therefore my emails that come through saying what I’ve done during the week is completely skewed. Is anyone using an app that allows you to do breathwork for longer and not the presets, if so, which one? I’m currently using ‘Meditation’

BTW, sorry if posted in the wrong place...

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago

are you using a strap or wrist hr? As breathwork would be detected by hrv, I suspect the strap may be better??

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon

Hey AJR,

just the sensors in the watch - as it is recording it and picking it up somehow... Didn’t see any point in putting a strap on just for when meditating.

0 Ɛpsilon over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

May be worth doing one test with the strap. If it's works you can report it giving both activities so they can compare

0 Jeroenende over 4 years ago

Hi,
Recently I bought a garmin HRM-Dual and did some comparisons between the optical HR sensor and strap, I was surprised that for most HRV metrics they seem to agree very well. I used this app: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/1214076f-6114-4c9e-9e11-d66ad078cfe2 which allows to record HRV metrics with both sensors.

If this extrapolates to accurate respiratory readings, I don't know, but it seems likely to me.