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Stair climbing - is my Fenix 7S malfunctioning?

Hello all.

Since 3-6 weeks I been climbing stairs everyday for like 30-40 floors to increase my cardiovascular performance and get leaner. Problem is that sometimes my floors are not properly tracked. For example, when I did small warmup fo 11 floors it only counted 2 floors. Basicaly when I was starting my journey with stairs I was able to get avg bpm up to 140 for like ~4 minutes of climbing 11-13 floors (did that several times during the day. Sometimes I get barely 90 bpm avg. since I started. Today I had registered avg. of 131 bpm.

I do other light to heavy cardiovascular activities like intervals on treadmill and from such activity it seems to be working fine. When I did intervals I had my heart almost jumping out of my chest very high avg. I also do cycling whre bpm readings dont look out of the ordinary.

Could it be that I adapted to stair climbing that fast and well or is my Fenix 7S faulty?

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trux over 2 years ago +1

Some tips are posted in this thread: What's the secret to tracking stairs accurately?

As for the HR accuracy, try adjusting the tightness of the wrist band, and the position of the watch on the wrist…
jan.shim over 1 year ago +1

I live in a one floor house and have on numberous occasions run stairs with my Fenix 7X SS. The Floor Climb app has worked very well for me, here's a typically climb.

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0 trux over 2 years ago

Some tips are posted in this thread: What's the secret to tracking stairs accurately?

As for the HR accuracy, try adjusting the tightness of the wrist band, and the position of the watch on the wrist. If it does not help, consider using a HRM chest belt. Also check the document The Heart Rate Sensor on My Garmin Watch Is Not Accurate | Garmin Customer Support

0 jan.shim over 1 year ago

I live in a one floor house and have on numberous occasions run stairs with my Fenix 7X SS. The Floor Climb app has worked very well for me, here's a typically climb.

0 psymon over 1 year ago

I have a similar problem that while doing stair climb my hr wont get above 80bpm, im am not that fit, i manually measure my hr during the activity and it should be around 140-150. I think a recent update has bugged the activity so ohr doesnt work properly?

0 1630347 over 1 year ago in reply to psymon

Have the same problem. I've reported that to Garmin Support. I live in 10th floor. When I use for example strength training, walking - bpm is ok.

0 1783182 1 month ago

to make a long story short: been totally happy with Epix2 Pro 51 for 2yrs, until it died on me this week. Garmin will replace it, as discussed, but will take some time as i'm stationed abroad. in the meantime i've got a Fenix 7S Solar

However, one of my major trainings is stairs climbing in a 50-story bldg. Twice-a-week 12-14min per lap, 6-10 laps. Been happy with Garmin's own StairClimb app. but NOT succeeding in finding or installing it on my Fenix 7S. Found a 3rd party app, but am not happy with it

Any suggestions on putting StairClimb back on my Fenix 7S, please?

0 trux 1 month ago in reply to 1783182

I do not know the StairClimb activity, but on practically all multisport watches (Fenix 7S including), there is the activity profile "Floor Climb", which is designed for climbing floors.