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Forerunner 245 Heart-Rate Wildly Highly

Currently just walking on the treadmill and getting HR in the 170s-180s. I bought this watch for fitness tracking specifically so I’m a little disappointed. Any suggestions?

0 tess over 4 years ago

I'm assuming you're referring to the WHR sensor? Some work well, some don't. It's an individual thing with too many factors for someone to determine how to get it to work best for you. The limitations of optical WHR monitors is well documented and in my personal opinion should only be used to track HR outside of any activities. Garmin, along every other manufacture, suggest using a chest strap for better accuracy.

0 2288342 over 4 years ago

A lot of people have that issue with firmware 5.50

0 dom over 4 years ago in reply to 2288342

Agree, I was fine with the wrist heart rate with the 735 and the 645 and also with the 245 at first, but around November it went very wrong

0 gjoregj over 4 years ago

You can try what suunto suggests:

https://www.suunto.com/Content-pages/what-should-you-know-about-wrist-heart-rate2/

Once I started doing what they are saying it is pretty consistent at least for me and my FR245.

0 dom over 4 years ago in reply to gjoregj

The thing is that as I mentioned, I never had a problem with wrist HRM with three devices including the 245 until about last November. I didn't change what I was doing.