Losing heart rate when running on treadmill..? What to do?

1941251 over 1 year ago

When i run on treadmill my heart rate falls out. Its only on treadmill. I have tried on two different treadmills, I have tried two different belts as well. Ant tips?

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mcalista over 1 year ago +1

Indoors can be quite "noisy" from an EM perspective, with interference from microwaves, wireless routers, etc, and you can get droputs from HR belts.

If you are getting interference using the…

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0 Former Member over 1 year ago

Try tightening the watch up on your wrist a notch or two and see if that helps.

0 Adam-1972 over 1 year ago

Are you use HR sensor build-in or external?
Do you have HR transmitting option ON?
Do you have auto sensor discovery enabled?

0 1941251 over 1 year ago in reply to Adam-1972

Garmin heart rate belt.

hr transmitting off

auto sensor is on.

0 mcalista over 1 year ago

Indoors can be quite "noisy" from an EM perspective, with interference from microwaves, wireless routers, etc, and you can get droputs from HR belts.

If you are getting interference using the default ANT+ connection, try deleting the belt in the sensor menu, and pairing it again using Bluetooth.

0 Adam-1972 over 1 year ago in reply to 1941251

I would say, set auto sensor to OFF, maybe you watch is discovering something and it causing such dropouts.
I mostly do my runs outside but had some activities on treadmill in the past and never had such issues..
Fenix 7 with HRM-Pro belt.

0 Skordilovich over 1 year ago in reply to mcalista

This is the correct answer