Using chest heart rate on cycling not being tracked by the watch, only by third party GPS

Guys,

This is problably something about my fisiology, garmin or any other wrist device doesn't work properly.

When the watch says 90BPM, I'm actually 150 on the bike. It's not garmin fault, like I said it happens with Whoop, polar, apple watch, anything.

Only CHEST heart rate works for me.

The challenge here is, when I go cycling, the GPS records the workout normally, tracking the correct chest data, all good, however when the workout is uploaded to Connect app, my hear rate and calories are not updated accoringly.

Is there anyway I can ensure the watch gets the heart rate data from my chest even if I don't have any sport activity active at the momment ? The workaround I found for this was to start an activity GYM for example to force the watch to read data fromt he chest sensor and discard the activity once I stop the workout. that works but is annoying and also consumes unecessary battery as well.

Any idea on how to rsolve it ?

Thanks,

0 bluefish 3 days ago

Fernando_Labombarda said:
The workaround I found for this was to start an activity GYM for example to force the watch to read data fromt he chest sensor and discard the activity once I stop the workout. that works

This is how it works. The sensor only connects if you have started an activity profile. Otherwise not.

0 bluefish 3 days ago

Fernando_Labombarda said:
Is there anyway I can ensure the watch gets the heart rate data from my chest even if I don't have any sport activity active at the momment ?

No.

0 Fernando_Labombarda 2 days ago in reply to bluefish

Thank you, I hope that if I use garmin GPS once workout is uploaded it will override the heart rate data from the watch in this case.

0 flocsy🤠 2 days ago in reply to bluefish

R U sure? When you open Menu - Sensors and Accessories - HRM - About then wait for a while, it will display the battery level of the strap, which is broadcasted by it about every 30 seconds (in ANT+)

I haven't checked this, but I thought that if I see that then go back to the watchface it'll get the HR from the band. You could easily try it if you have HR displayed on your watchface by holding the watch such a way that it doesn't get any reflections of the optical HR sensor's LEDs and then you connect the HRM and see what happens.

Note that most watch faces refresh the screen only once a minute, so probably you need to wait, or if gesture wakes it up then twist it.