Continuous heart monitoring while training... is it possible?

[iceddante]

The most important feature I need for managing my training involves ensuring that when I hop on the exercise bike, treadmill, etc that I maintain my heart rate around 145 bpm. As far as I can tell this is not possible with the Fitbit Charge 5.

Monitoring my heart rate live on the phone in-app does not seem possible

The watch face keeps turning off (by design) so I have to move my arm and hope it turns on. Always-on mode does not work because it only shows the time, not the heart rate.

Ideally I would like to be able to see my heart rate in real time on the phone and/or watch. If my heart rate deviates from my manually defined target heart rate by 4-5 beats getting a vibrate alert would be great too. Is something like this possible?

[JohnnyRow · Accepted solution]

Besides the "always-on" display I suspect you tried, there is a separate always-on for during exercise.  Using the Exercise App, after getting to your exercise choice, swipe up from small arrow at bottom of screen to get other options for this exercise choice.  Among them is always-on to show exercise stats while in the exercise session.

[iceddante]

That is great! It would be good if I could see my real time heart rate in the phone app as well as that could be more safe/convenient than checking my wrist in certain situations.

[JohnnyRow]

My current heart rate = 63, real-time, on phone app.  Is this not what you want?

[Danze]

From my experience, none of the wrist health monitors can track exercising heart rate very accurately, not anything above 135bpm anyway for me. The most accurate HR monitor I have used is still the ones you wear around the chest like the Polar H10 chest strap.

[iceddante]

I am comparing my heart rate to the monitors on my exercise bike and it is pretty close! Sometime right on top of each other but others tracking within 2-3 beats. I'm training at the 135-150bpm range. I am also comparing it to the Halo View which seems to be slightly more accurate, but Fitbit is not too bad.

JohnnyRow- thanks again! I think I'm kind of a dummy here

[Danze]

Personally, I cannot get my Charge 4/5 to register over HR over 135 when I'm exercising. But then, I'm quite tanned, since most wrist health monitors use green LED to detect blood flow, how accurate it is could depend on one's skin tone, the darker one's skin tone is the harder for it to detect. While the Polar H10 uses electrodes, it definitely would be a lot more accurate than using LEDs.

[Gpm290]

Hi, 

Found your reply for the Charge 5.  Is this Always On capability available on the older FB Inspire HR?  thx