help menu

Join us on the Community Forums!

  • Community Guidelines

    The Fitbit Community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and insight about the Fitbit products and services they love. By joining our Community, you agree to uphold these guidelines, so please take a moment to look them over.

  • Learn the Basics

    Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for information on Community features, and tips to make the most of your time here.

  • Join the Community!

    Join an existing conversation, or start a new thread to ask your question. Creating your account is completely free, and takes about a minute.

Not finding your answer on the Community Forums?

Cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Interesting heart rate dynamic

‎10-20-2016 12:52

‎10-20-2016 12:52

Yesterday morning my company running team had a 4+ mile group run scheduled at 11:45, and given my current daily mileage is considerably higher than that I went out for a moderately paced 9-mile warm up prior to the group run.  I was just looking at my daily 5-minute heart rate plot and can clearly see the swing in my heart rate between finishing the warmup at 11:35 and the start of the group run which commenced at 11:50.

 

  • 11:30-11:35 -- 160 average (peaking at 171 for the last half mile or so)
  • 11:35-11:40 -- 132 average
  • 11:40-11:45 -- 86 average
  • 11:45-11:50 -- 75 average
  • 11:50-11:55 -- 140 average 
  • 11:55-12:00 -- 156 average (peaking at 172 during a climb up a 9% grade late in the first mile)

 

Someone recently requested a "recovery" mode which is optionally/automagically tacked on to the end of a run to keep the highly granular heart rate tracking running for say an extra fifteen minutes.  Based upon the above dynamics, I'm thinking that is a great idea.

Best Answer
2 REPLIES 2

‎11-02-2016 08:25

‎11-02-2016 08:25

Interesting data. Seems like you're very active, and that's awesome! I wish I had more time and physical ability to run so much. It would be so much better for my body if I had more exercise. I have a good amount now, so I am healthy, but more exercise is fun

Yours Truly,Geoffrey
Best Answer

‎11-02-2016 10:42

In response to dragonpupps

‎11-02-2016 10:42

@dragonpupps wrote:

Interesting data. Seems like you're very active, and that's awesome! I wish I had more time and physical ability to run so much. It would be so much better for my body if I had more exercise. I have a good amount now, so I am healthy, but more exercise is fun

Regarding the time constraint issue; I don't have a whole lot of spare time so as a general rule I come in to work a half hour early and then take that extra half hour at lunch when I go out for a long run.  Fortunately we have both a locker room here as well as a cafeteria, so as soon as my run is over I shower up, grab a sandwich, and then eat at my desk while I'm working.

 

Regarding the "physical ability", if you can engineer the time into your day (along with any necessary motivation to actually use the time for exercise), the ability will follow along in due course.  🙂

Best Answer