Dear Garmin friends,
I use a vivoactive 4 when speed skating. When using wrist hearth rate (HR) it sometimes looses the frequency and is stuck at about 60%. I understand it is due to the nature of the technique (i find many similar complaints, no solutions). I have searched the internet (in three languages) not much informations.
So I took my old ANT+ *** HRM from my old FR405CX, works fine, but something funny happened. When my hand is on my back, the signal gets blocked (obviously due to the frequency of ANT+). With the FR405CX that was not an issue for it would pickup the signal in the bends (corners) and assumed (interpolate) the HR between measurements. The vivoactive 4 does not. It assumes my HR is 80 or sometimes even 0 (and I am pretty sure I am not dead). It results in very interesting HR graphs, and more important, low averages HRs
A solution would be to put the watch in my front pocket so it does not move to my. Back on the straight ends of the ice skate ring. But i would not be able to see my HR.
Asking other skaters, no luck, they either use another brand (low frequency HR transmitter) or they do not care. But since I do...
I wonder whether a Bluetooth HRM strap would be better. Or does anyone have an alternative solution? Is an other Garmin watch better suited?
Jasper