Welcome to the Fitbit Family @Danhemingway! The heart rate will be tracked when your heart beats, your capillaries expand and contract based on blood volume changes. PurePulse LED lights on your tracker reflect onto the skin to detect blood volume changes and finely tuned algorithms are applied to measure heart rate automatically and continuously.
You may want to check the estimated target heart rates for different ages.
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