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Is there a way to set a heart rate alarm that IMMEDIATELY goes off when your HR gets too high during activities?

shelaine24
over 3 years ago

I originally thought that the built-in "heart rate alarm" feature of this watch would set off an alarm at the exact moment your heart rate goes over a certain number, but upon reading the instructions, apparently this is NOT the case. The manual says: "When enabled, the device will trigger an alert if an abnormally high heart rate is detected after you've been inactive for 10 minutes or longer."

However, this is useless to me! When I'm doing activities like mountain biking, trail running, hiking, etc. I need my watch to set off an alert immediately when my HR goes over a certain number so that I can slow myself down or take break to slow down my heart. I have a heart condition that causes episodes of SVT (supraventricular tachycardia - which is a rapid and erratic heart beat), during intense activity so I'd like to be able to stop it before it happens by having an alarm go off every time I hit a certain BPM.

I've tried setting/adding the HR alert during various different activities and have seen the number on my watch go up above the BMP I've set multiple times, but no alarm goes off.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? Or is there an app I can add that runs in the background that will vibrate or make a sound when my HR gets too high?

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I've looked into this for my stepson, and my digging around on the web - says NO.

    Personally I think the HR alarm, with it's 10 minute delay is useless. I can't see anyone using this "feature".

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I read your post and found it interesting enough that I decided to test this myself. So, for this mornings workout I gave this a try. I selected a Cardio>Settings>Alerts>Heart Rate. I set my High HR to 140 and low to 125, then started the workout. I found the watch gave me a vibration warning on the low end and high end in real time. 

    I’m wondering if there is something in your settings that has these turned off. I do have the Auto Heart Rate Alarm feature disabled. Not sure if this would have an impact on the heart rate alert for the activity.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Rerun201

    So strange that it worked for you but it doesn't work for me! I even viewed the activities on the Garmin Connect website and it clearly shows that my HR went over the High Alert that I set for those specific activities. Maybe I'll have to disable the Auto HR Alarm feature as you've done and see what happens. Thanks for the info!

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    This was really important for me, as well, and I have done this on my cardio activities.

    Click the upper button to select the activity, drag the bottom arrow up and select Settings.

    Choose Alerts, Add New, Heart Rate (or HR Alert, I can't quite remember how it is phrased),

    then you have to set the HR zone you want it to alert you about.

    I hope this helps!


    (I just saw that Rerun201 has already suggested this, sorry I missed that!)