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Limit maximum recorded Heart Rate

plthatfunkymusic
over 1 year ago

I'm 50 with a maximum HR of around 163 bpm.  I've just completed my first run with my new 955 and this is the recorded heart rate from the wrist:

For large parts of the run the watch records 190+ and now my estimated VO2 max and recovery advisor are meaningless....

1) Please Garmin add a feature to limit the maximum recorded heart rate.

2) If the watch reads over this, then warn the user, and give an option to either accept it, or to stop recording whilst the watch  "searches" for the correct heart rate.

Without this my watch heart rate is pretty much useless during exercise and I'm forced to wear a strap (which is one of the reason I upgraded from my 735xt).

Thoughts?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I would like to add you to our report regarding inaccurate OHR data during activities. May I have permission to reach out via email so I can gather more information? 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Thanks for the all the replies to this post.  Looks like others have similar problems, and perhaps something Garmin could incorporate.

    One other suggestion I have is to have the option on activities to "ignore / remove HR data", and this same option would be really helpful on the watch.  In this way all the negative (false) impact of incorrect HR data would not occur.  My VO2 max would be correctly calculated, and recovery advisor would not go haywire thinking I've destroyed myself on a relatively easy run.



  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

    I'm happy to be contacted, but I'm more interested in solutions to avoid the negative impact of false reading events as they are clearly going to happen.  Obviously no sensor is going to be accurate 100% of the time, but I feel it'd be easy to offer options to mitigate the 've impact these have. 

    It's disappointing this has happened on the first activity on a new watch (my Garmin history is 610, 735xt and now 955), so I was hoping for something else.  Now I'm resigned to accepting this is going to happen and looking for solutions.  Hopefully Garmin also think like this and can find a way forward

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to plthatfunkymusic
    plthatfunkymusic said:
    One other suggestion I have is to have the option on activities to "ignore / remove HR data", and this same option would be really helpful on the watch.  In this way all the negative (false) impact of incorrect HR data would not occur.  My VO2 max would be correctly calculated, and recovery advisor would not go haywire thinking I've destroyed myself on a relatively easy run.

    This is an excellent suggestion. I've given up on wrist HRMs, but chest-strap HRMs sometimes give trouble as well. For example, they can slip out of place, the contacts may not be moist enough, or the battery may die half-way through a run.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to plthatfunkymusic
    plthatfunkymusic said:
    One other suggestion I have is to have the option on activities to "ignore / remove HR data", and this same option would be really helpful on the watch.  In this way all the negative (false) impact of incorrect HR data would not occur.  My VO2 max would be correctly calculated, and recovery advisor would not go haywire thinking I've destroyed myself on a relatively easy run.

    Maybe this is kind of tangential, but I noticed that garmin updates your recovery time even if you discard a running activity (for example). I haven't checked, but I assume it also updates things like training status/load and VO2 Max, based on discarded running activities.

    Given that philosophy, I kinda doubt they'd give you that option. (Also for the same reason I mentioned above: it would be like admitting that Garmin HR monitors are unreliable.)