Active Zone Minutes and low resting heart

[PoppyPasta]

I have a Charge 6 that I got at Christmas. My question is about Active Zone minutes. 

I hardly ever seem to trigger Active Zone minutes, even though I usually do at least 10,000 steps and live in a very hilly city. 

I have quite a low resting heart rate (around 50bpm), family history of bradycardia.

Is that why I have to work super hard to get Active Zone minutes? Or am I just lazy?! My husband regularly gets about 60 whereas I will only get like 2 in a day!!!

[JohnnyRow]

Yes and no.  Zone Minutes depend on your heart rate zones and your heart rate, getting your heart rate into the zones, usually the lowest moderate or fat-burn zone.  So check the lower limit of that zone.  Your low resting heart rate actually lowers the zone limits for you.  But if bradycardia prevents your heart rising from increasing as easily with exercise, then that might be preventing your heart from reaching the heart rate zones, which is how Zone Minutes are determined.

I'm tempted to suggest you talk to your doctor about this, but, since you are knowledgeable about bradycardia, maybe you already have.