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Heartrate very wrong!

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hello @all,
this morning, I go by bike to work, without heart rate belt. Til the half distance, it work fine, a pulse of estimated 120, i drive downhill at the moment and the heartrate jumps from 10 to 184! The entire distance til my workplace, a much to high pulse has been announced. After the race, I take a sit and what is that? A heartrate of 140, checked with my finger - exactly 72 in one Minute. What ist wrong? I get a watch how is much expensive and it will not work correctly? I'm confused.

Off topic. The Garmin index scale measure wrong values too. On my medicine product omron bf511 scale I get a body fat value of 9.1% (8 sensors), the index scale from Garmin shows me 16.8. Only a calculated value? I wrote garmin, til today no response.

I'm confused, only fake? Much expensive fake?

Best regards.

Olaf

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Sorry, the heartrate jumps from 120 to 184, not from 20. My resting pulse is minimal 38.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

If I could open the watch and unscrew the OHR sensor, I wouldn't hesitate a second...

Useless. Crap.

0 JSRUNNER_ over 7 years ago

latzeca Ok76 Wrist based HR Monitors are generally poor for measuring HR for any vigorous activity - you'll find lots of threads on Garmin forums as well as the forums for most other manufacturers who produce WHR devices. They work well for some people but are very sensitive to positioning tightness skin colour, amount of hair on wrist amount of fat and so on...

If you want an accurate figure for cycling, running, swimming strength training etc then use a chest strap. Wrist based is best suited to background 24/7 measurement

0 FlipStone over 7 years ago

Sigh, nothing new here...

OHR is fine for running and more 'stable' sort of running in general
OHR is worse for biking, fitness stuff, etc
OHR varies greatly for each person because of things like temperature, skin type, positioning on arm, etc
All these things have been mentioned (and complained about) again and again...

For me it's overall good enough and I'm happy it's there (then again, I knew about the limitations already many months ago) because I simply hate chest-straps. Sure, it has it's glitches but usually it works as expected for me.

0 Dr Phil over 7 years ago

Sigh!

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

latzeca Ok76 Wrist based HR Monitors are generally poor for measuring HR for any vigorous activity - you'll find lots of threads on Garmin forums as well as the forums for most other manufacturers who produce WHR devices. They work well for some people but are very sensitive to positioning tightness skin colour, amount of hair on wrist amount of fat and so on...

If you want an accurate figure for cycling, running, swimming strength training etc then use a chest strap. Wrist based is best suited to background 24/7 measurement

Right. I bought chest strap at day #1. What hurts, is all the marketing around the OHR (and obviously the fact that you have to pay for something neither reliable nor accurate)

0 Dr Phil over 7 years ago

Caveat emptor!

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

(and obviously the fact that you have to pay for something neither reliable nor accurate)

You didn't have to pay for anything. You made that choice.

0 FlipStone over 7 years ago

You didn't have to pay for anything. You made that choice.

Actually, the OHR was put in for free... The price was set for the watch without the OHR and they decided to put it in for free because they knew not everyone would be equally happy with it. Nice chaps of Garmin.

;)

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I thought, If I ride my bike I have all the distance the same skin and hair. I bought a multisport watch with OHR and it should work, without a jump from 120 to 180. This is not plausible, the watch should understand this.
But okay, I have a chest HR sensor, but this was the way to my work, not the Stoneman miriquidi Way.

Sorry for my question, for every new customer ist this a new problem.

Have a nice weekend