Heart rate in activity only

Question

Is it possible to set up the Forerunner so that it does not measure daily heart rate (I don&rsquo;t wear my watch all the time and don&rsquo;t have an interest in tracking daily levels) but it does measure heart rate during exercise. The settings I&rsquo;ve found are only always on or always off.

TedW · Answer

Can you put your watch in Battery Saving mode and then it won&rsquo;t measure HR but will allow you to start activities which enable heart rate during the activity? I haven&rsquo;t tried this yet, but it might work. You would still have to exit out of Battery Saver mode to sync the watch with Connect. I tried this out yesterday - in battery saving mode, I made sure that it was configured to turn off wrist heart rate. Then, when I selected Walk activity, the watch turned on wrist heat rate and gps and recorded my walk. After the walk, my watch returned to battery saver mode, turning off wrist heart rate.