Max heart rate not showing in graphs.

[Lilbiddy]

Today whilst working out at the gym I checked the display on my charge 2 and saw my heart rate showing as 161. As I am over 60 that seemed high by your guidance, not sure if that's good or bad. Anyway when I looked at the app on my phone later this did not appear in the heart rate daily graph or the one attached to the exercise. I have noticed this before that the highest readings have not registered.

is this available somewhere else or can you explain the omission?

it would be nice to have to hand the way the resting heart rate is.

Moderator Edit: Updated Subject For Clarity.

[RobertoME]

Hello there @Lilbiddy, thank you for visiting the Fitbit Community, I was reading your post and you mentioned that the max heart rate is not being displayed in your exercise graph. How often is this happening? What type of exercise were you practicing? 

Note the graph will display your different hear rate zones as you know, but in average term will give you the most steady and longer BPM that you were able to maintain during your exercise.

In my example below, I was able to reach 156 bpm however, since my max heart rates was only for a short period of time, my average represented is only 112 bmp. (I use the web-dashboard to give you this example, In the Fitbit app this graph is different).

This might explain why you are experiencing this. If your readings of 161 bmp was not long enough and was just a quick spike, perhaps this reading was not represented in the graph.

About your concern that your heart rate seems high, the default zones are calculated using your estimated maximum heart rate. Fitbit calculates your maximum heart rate with the common formula of 220 minus your age. For more details please refer to our help article: What should I know about my heart rate data?

See you later and hope this helps.

[Yyyyyyyyyy]

Why can’t that data point be captured and displayed in the graph somewhere. It’s a very important piece of data. A moving average is nice but knowing what the high value reached is better

[Colinm39]

@Yyyyyyyyyy  It would be nice to see the Maximum HR you hit during an activity but I have found the graphs extremely accurate when you use the Exercise options.. The Image below has a portion of a Walk I did using trekking poles..   Fitbit has recorded a pulse every 2 seconds and I have included the1 minute period where I hit maximum HR. ( There are 28 pulse points in that minute. (using the poles, drops my heart rate about 11 points.) The red graph is from Fitbit and the blue graph from my imported data and using Excel.

Unfortunately Fitbit's graphing flattened the top off at the 130HR but it's still accurate with the 3rd image.

Time	Heart Rate
09:21:01	124
09:21:04	124
09:21:06	124
09:21:09	124
09:21:11	123
09:21:13	124
09:21:14	125
09:21:15	126
09:21:16	127
09:21:18	128
09:21:19	129
09:21:21	130
09:21:24	130
09:21:26	129
09:21:28	128
09:21:29	128
09:21:31	127
09:21:33	126
09:21:34	125
09:21:36	124
09:21:39	124
09:21:42	125
09:21:45	125
09:21:48	125
09:21:49	124
09:21:52	123
09:21:54	122
09:21:57	121

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@Yyyyyyyyyy wrote:

Why can’t that data point be captured and displayed in the graph somewhere. It’s a very important piece of data. A moving average is nice but knowing what the high value reached is better

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[MaschaP]

I've noticed the same (or similar). The graph in the exercise shows a higher HR than the HR daily graph. By quite a bit. I assumed the daily graph is a moving average and came here looking to find out how large the window (envelope) is. 

However, now I see it's possible to export the data to an excel which might be even better. Where and how can that be done? 

[TMcKittrick]

I want the same information.  I tried the Export but it doesn't export heartrate which is critical for ensuring people don't exceed their max heart rate.  Is it possible there is a way to do this which I'm just not seeing?  

[Boneshaker]

Same here. A max/min view would be helpful. Capturing in the moment is difficult especially during exercise. How long and how often do I hit 170 bpm, or resting at 49?? Tapping the device doesnt even work half the time and can be hard to see. Be nice to be able to go back and look.