Resting heart rate, RHR, seems to be wrong.

BowMaestro said:

It’s of course really hard to prove

It’s easy to check. Take a manual pulse each morning immediately you wake up. 

As i have said before, it’s hard to do when I sleep, where I tend to have the lowest average over 30 min..

But, today, for instance, I had lower pulse than the  average from the sleep, for a while, wile I was drinking coffee after I had gone up. Not that it proves it either.

But something has changed.

Its just strange how people have different experiences with their Fenix 7 - I am really impressed how accurate both HRV and resting heart rate is. I recently got sick with covid that lasted for 5 days, and I saw a decline in HRV 2 days before I had the first symptoms aswell as a rise in hrh. Both metrics continued to decline for 5 days before I felt better.. HRV was stable but still low on day 5-6 and afterwards began to steadly rise day after day again.. 14 days after the first symptoms my HRV is back to normal aswell as rhr.

Im on 10.43

i experienced the same, RHR up by about 10 bpm since about october. This is quite unfortunate since gauging my health / fitness off of RHR was  was always one of my favorite features. In the past a bump in RHR always told me very reliably that i was coming up with something, now since october i cant trust that anymore. Real bummer for me personally

Exactly, there is something strange happening.

It’s really accurate for me too, just a bit displaced compared to before.

I have still issues with this, as before, usual RHR was for a year 45-48 usually with days with a bit lower and days with a bit higher.

since described in the original post, now it’s extremely seldom below 50, and usually 50-54. That is not reasonable at all.

things I noticed that has changed, is that the watch doesn’t register HR for a little while sometimes, and GC IOS, often doesn’t have real-time HR, for a while, that was never the case before. If that’s something that’s is an issue I don’t know.

but it is a change.

I haven't worn my Garmin watch for daily health tracking for quite a while (tested out another brand) and it's now back to the Epix 2 and I have to say that I don't see any change for the worse. RHR is even a bit lower, but that's probably because my fitness has increased. 

Yea ok, yea it’s probably not a big wide spread issue, if it was a lot more people would probably notice. But something is strange. And maybe it’s so small that it is in the error margin for most people not looking so closely at this.

I mean, numbers doesn’t lie?

Yup, could be. You could probably cross-check with other devices or external HRMs.