High Heart Rate?

[Cantryboy]

Hey y'all! I've been wearging a charge HR for the past 7 months and I have never dropped down into the blue---i've always been in the yellow or higher. Anybody know if thats bad...?

[unimaize]

If you have a resting heart rate over about 80 then it's probably worth discussing with your doctor. While it might be perfectly normal for your age and lifestyle it may also be indicative of tachychardia. 

[pidgeon92 · Accepted solution]

This is a topic best discussed with your doctor.

[Cantryboy]

I was just surprised i never get down into the blue haha

[Heybales]

You can train your body to always go in to the high HR carb burning mode only.

If every cardio workout is almost as hard as you can make it - that's the result.

You don't train the fat-burning aerobic system as much. Which is great for endurance.

But if endurance isn't your goal - merely burning as many calories in given time as possible - then going as high as you can that still allows you to do it hard tomorrow is the best formula.

If eventual endurance is goal - slow down. Train the other side of the range.

Improving the low end can improve the high end too - but not nearly as much vice-versa.

[JeanMR]

My heart rate is consistently high, too. I have a pacemaker that is set to pace me at 60. It kicks in 90% of the time. If I am working out, one of three things happens: it stays stuck at 60 and I get exhausted:  My heart picks up the pace on its own; or the pacemaker slowly goes up to a higher level.

I know the fitbit is innacurate becasue I check it often when I am at rest and because there are spikes in the record when I am at rest.

My best guess is that it is my skin that is the problem. It is thin from sun damage and I have purpera -- spots that look like bruises. They are broken capillaries. I also have cat damage!

Cantryboy, you can get a cheap blood pressure machine and if your blood pressure and pulse are high, yes, you should see a doc. If you consistently get normal readings, I would say the fitbit is off.

[Colinm39]

@JeanMR Being a retired engineer who loves his baselines I'm always interested in "cause and effect". The image below shows what has been occurring after my Total Hip Replacement on July 7th . The month before is my typical RHR. This month shows the effect of my operation, anesthetic, pain  etc.

I was walking on day 2, home on day 4 and now driving. With my older age and the settings for fat burning, when my RHR was peaking around 74 I was averaging 5 hours in the fat burning zone. Result... All of my Premium Activity Calories have hit the moon.....

But I found the HR Fitbits excellent to monitor what your body is doing based on the environment you are in.. Well done Fitbit.

[williamhj]

Do you check your heart rate the old fashion way?  That is, a stopwatch and fingers to your neck or wrist?  Might be good to see if your fitbit is accurate.  Check it when you wake up, before you get out of bed, check it when you're not doing much and fitbit says it is high, see what you get.  If it is consistently high then see your doctor. 

[Colinm39]

All checked by the nurses and me. I find when I'm at rest the Fitbits are very accurate. I get annoyed with sudden movement like getting up from sitting to walking to make a cup of coffee the HR spikes to around 100 and that is on all my HR Fitbits.

Fitbit HR type aren't accurate for me at the high activity end when I compare them to my Polar chest strap, always read about 20% high

I also had 2 x ECG's post op and all was sound there and when I use my Omron Blood Pressure monitor the Fitb's are the same as the Omron.

There is obviously a problem with the sudden surges of blood flow

Here is an 11 hour recuperating sleep period a couple of weekends ago. Notic ethe movement in bed.

[JeanMR]

Nver could find my own pulse!

But it can't be, say 101, when I wake up. I have a pacemaker that kicks in 95% of the time and is set to 60. So 5% of the time my heart beats 60 or above on its own and I would say the Fitbit reports above 60 about 70% of the time. My cardiologist is happy with my pacemaker, which reports all activity, including high pulse rates.

[shoytwilliams]

I have a resting heart rate normally in the fifties, measured manually.  But there are periods when my fitbit will show in the 90's when the manual count is in the  fifties.  Any reasons?

[Colinm39]

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@shoytwilliams wrote:

I have a resting heart rate normally in the fifties, measured manually.  But there are periods when my fitbit will show in the 90's when the manual count is in the  fifties.  Any reasons?

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@shoytwilliams  I'm no expert but if Fitbit is taking average of the RHR over time, I find the RHR reasonable. The RHR below shows a slight increase for me and that is because we are having the hottest Spring October since records began.

I have this spiking problem all of the time and I believe it is the way Fitbit calculates our RHR. The spikes you see are trying to be explained by others, like "too much light exposure to the green leds", " too low on the wrist" etc.. So when you think you are resting, Fitbit's algorithm may think otherwise because of the spikes and seen as no rest. Fitbit will not reveal their algorithm for RHR or just simply "what is the time span and lack of activity to consider you are resting. ?".

What does you RHR tile look like ?, here is mine for October.and as I'm typing this  the HR is 62bpm.

90 minutes of potting plants, and my heart manually never got above 82 bpm. I will use my Polar Chest HR tomorrow for a clinical analasys.

I just finished some gardening today and the Fitbit was pulsing at 104 and the finger pulse test was 76.. The graph below shows my HR for just potting plants, moving, sitting on a chair, kneeling, nothing like a heavy walk.  So I'm ignoring the HR for any activyty. I even getb spikes just moving from a chair to make a coffee etc. In saying all of that I have found the sleeping HJR very accurate.

[Strem2]

Hi Colin,  It's also interesting to me that your resting heart rate went up so much after your surgery. I have found that my heart rate is up when I am in pain.  Perhaps, your body is struggling to heal, rushing more nutrients to the surgical site, or perhaps it is a function of medication?

[JeanRI]

I have a slightly different problem with high heart rates.

I have a pacemaker which is set to 60, so my heart can never go below 60. And the pacemaker kicks in 95% of the time. That means my heart should go above 60 only 5%, maximum, of the time: sometimes it will fire naturally at 60. And I never should go into fat burn, cardio, or peak zones. Yet myy fitfbit says I do.

Today my resting heart rate is 72: lowest reading was 65. I can confidently say that is wrong 95% of the time.

[shoytwilliams]

Sorry, I haven't found the heart rate log yet.

[Rachymoo]

Hi there I'm new to Fitbit HR and have a pacemaker for slow heartbeat. Went for my cardio check up today and the nurse said I haven't been above 70 bpm for months! Yet my Fitbit shows when I'm spinning like a mad woman that I'm on 123! She thinks the pacemaker spikes register hence the faster recording. Is this what you were told? Appreciate any advice, it seems ok when I'm resting...