Heart rate drop off

My heart rate reading drops to 49-50bpm when out for a long walk which is way below my resting heart rate of 65. Why would it simply drop so low when I know it was reading 90-100 bpm earlier in the same walk??

0 isazi over 4 years ago

It could be that it locks to your cadence during some section of a walk, wrist-based OHR sensors have this issue.

0 9337346 over 4 years ago

This happens to me all the time. It is SO frustrating. It says I burned 60 calories in an activity where when it’s working shows 500 cals burned!! Have you found any solution?

0 DJGShef over 4 years ago

I have found on a rare occasion that the HR appears to be half what I would expect and have assumed that it has locked onto the stronger (systolic) beat - as if it can't believe I'm working so hard! ;-)

0 9448488 over 4 years ago in reply to DJGShef

Same issue. I took a hike up a mountain today. I could hear my heartbeat and counted it as about 140. Its not that I'm in bad shape, just old. The brand new Instinct (all software up to date ) reported between 60 and 70. I thought of the same explanation, but not a reason for it.

0 Gregor K. over 4 years ago

Because of this I am using chest strap hr sensor from old polar, way more accurate.