Recovery heart rate ?

[-Chris-]

How do you view your recovery heart rate on your Fitbit please?  

[WavyDavey]

Hi @-Chris-,

If you mean HRR, then Fitbit doesn't track that automatically, as it does with resting heart rate.

[-Chris-]

Yep, the recovery heart rate.  How are others here checking it.

[WavyDavey]

At the end of a workout, I start a new activity, let it run until HR recovers. That way I can see a distinct chart for the recovery portion.

[-Chris-]

That's interesting, so you don't see what it is after 2 minutes from the end of the exercise?

[tractorlegs]

The Fitbit tracker is constantly monitoring heart rate, so what I do is simply sit and watch my HR immediately after exercise to watch how quickly it goes down. You can watch it on your wrist, or alternately open your app and monitor it there. Mine generally goes from exercise HR (usually 110 to 120) to the mid 50s in about 2 or 3 minutes. If recovery HR takes significantly longer, then I take a day off from exercise. 

[-Chris-]

Thank you, these replies are useful.  Just trying to get a handle on all of this.  I've been into fitness all my life, but only recently have taken an interest in how my heart is functioning coupled with the running I do.

@TL  If it's taken longer than 2 mins for your exercise rate to get to your resting rate, shouldn't more exercise be taken, not less?

Just come back from a quick 2k run, took 12 minutes, 150 average bpm, highest 164, in 2 mins it came down to 187.  I haven't done any fitness, (apart from walking the dog), for about 3 weeks!

It would be really handy if there was an auto recovery setting as well.  

[-Chris-]

"At the end of a workout, I start a new activity, let it run until HR recovers. That way I can see a distinct chart for the recovery portion."

I think how I meant to reply, was, that if you let it run until it finally reaches the resting heart rate, you could be there a while, whereas I thought the usual practice was to see what it was after 2 minutes?


I'm going to try that method you mention though, it's probably quite a quick thing to do within a few seconds after finishing the exercise.  

[tractorlegs]

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@-Chris- wrote:

@TL  If it's taken longer than 2 mins for your exercise rate to get to your resting rate, shouldn't more exercise be taken, not less?

 

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No, the opposite is true. If HR drops quickly, it means the body is recovering quickly (and rested); if HR drops slowly, recovery is slower and the body needs rest, and a day off (or a day of lighter intensity) is warranted. This is important to guard against overtraining. 

[tractorlegs]

@-Chris- -- Also, 2 minutes is my own benchmark, not a figure used generally.

[-Chris-]

Thanks TL.  I've seen the 2 min thing quite a bit on the net.

[Shane17]

It’s surprising that the Fitbit doesn’t have a spot to see the statistics on this. The fit bit generally gives us A disappointing level of analysis that I would expect of a device that is collecting so much data. 

[BobSaccamenco]

Still looking for this feature in 2023. Now I need to pay for an external app to view the data that Fitbit already has...for a fitness tracker this is a joke.

[Bruce_go]

As a now 67 year old inactive but previously competitive, I use a Fitbit only as a guide but most of my measurement is still my physical check of pulse a blood pressure cup recovery rate after exercise while at rest. How long does it take to reach your heart rate before you started not your resting rate which I only have checked immediately upon waking with only movent to lift my left arm to see my second hand on my watch and right hand to most accurate manual measurement, my carotid artery at the neck or if I was ever very concerned a hoter monitor every day for two weeks reviewed by my prescribing physician and I never get to see the data..

All measurement systems and recommendations have limitations and so treat the Fitbit but data as a company designed measurement too and if I recall in the terms it said that it was not medically approved and recommended to review any concerns with a medical physician. 

Learn the limitations and the OP asked can the fit but measure her heart rate recovery the answer is no. They didn't ask why not. 

I'd they did the answer is it wasn't designed to do and if that isvinportantcsoeakvto a professional about how you may use the tool or asn athlete dovitcthe same way you did before Fitbit when I started athletic trading I had my watch and my hand and knowledge of where to measure my pulse with knowledge the result may not be valid.  Use with care and learn the

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I could say more I think you get my point.