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Is Stress only measured with built-in optical wrist-based heart rate monitor during activities?

Former Member over 4 years ago

I am using the Polar H7 with my Garmin Forerunner 945 during activities such as Walking, Strength, and just noticed that there is no stress data in the stress chart during these activities. I was wondering if stress is only measured with the built-in optical wrist-based heart rate monitor? Or perhaps stress can be measured with external HRM, but it must be Garmin HRMs? See attached picture.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

I forgot to add a possible clue: I also noticed that during the Breathwork activities, one that was recorded using the Polar H7 didn't have the 'Starting Stress Level' and 'Ending Stress Level' values, i.e. they're blank, whereas another that was recorded using the wrist-based HRM had these stress values.

0 Oren over 4 years ago

For me with the wrist HRM only, it never count stress while riding my bikes.

So it is not related to the way it is physically measured.

0 dpupkov over 4 years ago

For regular activities like swimming / cycling / running / etc Garmin does NOT measure stress at all. Though it somehow estimates internally drop in body battery.

0 DPSK over 4 years ago

There is no stress data recorded during run activities for my case too.

That's supposed to be the way isn't it?

0 Dr Phil over 4 years ago in reply to DPSK

Yes