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Heart Rate too low

ANT1
over 5 years ago

Hello, I'm switching from a Vivoactive HR to the new Vivoctive 4.

After I few days of testing I found that the heart rate y too low. Vivoctive 4 is giving me about 50 bpm while walking and about 88 climbing a 15%-1km mountain with the bike (broadcast mode) which is impossible to me and totally different of what my chest strap says. With my old Vivoctive the HR was okay. Is anybody else having this issue?

Thanks!  Muscle

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to rekre

    No changes for me. But I feel that using it very tight "solve the problem"

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I bought this recently and thought my copy had a problem, i got another one and its still the same. Heart rate on vivoactive 4 is a joke, it works only if you are resting. if you are doing any type of activity this device is unusable, i am surprised Garmin has not looked into it, neither do i see many customer complaining about it. It can mean few things people really do not have good estimate of what the heart rate should be while doing any activity, they do not have a reference device to compare it against or cannot manually check their heart rate or we are unlucky bunch to get defective copies. 

    I have compared the heart rate with Apple watch 5, fitbit versa 2 and pulse ox meter and garmin is wayyy off i mean approx by 35 to 40 beats during or even after workout. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I´m getting the same issue. Comparing with an Polar M600, same training each of them in each wrist, the Polar measures like 20-40 more pulses than the Garmin, and the Polar is quite precise in several tests I did.
    It i a pity, I guess I´m returning it back to Amazon.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Got my bike out last month.  I was confident Vivo 4 was good since my last post.  NOPE, back to sucking by being 20-30 lower than the chest strap (Even tighten it up).  I give up as a heart rate, reliable monitor.  I like the watch for everything else, but wtf?  Seeing other post, the better watches in the 500+ range have the same monitors. Not to mention, some updates I lose my alarms, have had to erase app, reinstall, I believe Garmin doesn’t care.  Once this dies, probably go back to Apple. 

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