I’ve always taken the heart rate readings with a giant grain of salt and don’t expect it to be exact. But lately I’ve noticed that my heart rate is in the 100s when I am not doing anything. I have a pulse ox now and I will compare the two when I have an unusual high reading and more often than not the garmin is totally wrong. My resting heart rate is creeping up & I think some of that might be to these inaccurate readings. What’s interesting is that I never get an abnormal high rate alert, even though I should be.
I’ve seen other people complaining about low heart rate readings during activities (I have to wear a chest strap during strength workouts because of that), but does anyone else have an issue with higher than normal readings?