Stationary vs Outdoor Activities

[FredFornicola]

I'm generally not one to perform stationary aerobic exercise because I do most of my activities outside but I have noticed on the rare occasions that I perform stationary aerobic exercise my HR barely gets past 90-100. When I cycle outdoors my HR can get to 165. This is pretty consistent and I bike 25-50 miles a week when the weather permits. Today I had to cycle indoor and I was going like hell on my spin bike and my HR was hovering at 89 for most of the time. I kept cranking the tension and cranking as fast as I could and nothing moved up. I was drenched and huffing pretty good with no change and then all of a sudden my HR was 147. This is after 30 minutes of serious training. This is the second time this has happened to me indoor and oddly enough it never happens outdoors.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks

[SantiR]

@FredFornicola I hope you're doing well! Thanks for taking the time to post all of the details about the situation you are experiencing with your indoor stationary aerobic exercises and the heart rate being recorded. 

What exercise settings are you using when tracking these activities? I'd recommend using the Bike option for your outdoor rides and use Spinning for your indoor ones. If you don't find Spinning on your watch you can add it using the Fitbit app or online dashboard exercise shortcuts option.

That way, your watch will know what you are doing and should provide more accurate data.

Also, please check wrist placement you are using with your watch while doing high intensity workouts. Please check such a placement on this helpful article here.

Hope this helps. Keep me posted! 

[FredFornicola]

Thanks for the feedback.

My watch is always in the same spot so I'm good there.

Regarding exercise selection: I always pick bike when I cycle outdoors
because I like the GPS tracking. I've selected spinning on the other rare
occasions when I used the spin bike and the HR was inaccurate then.
Yesterday I didn't pick spinning but I don't see how that would matter
since the watch is reading your HR, so regardless of the activity, I am
under the assumption the watch responds accordingly???

www.fitbyfred.net

[SantiR]

@FredFornicola You are very welcome. Thanks for your reply and for sharing those details regarding the situation you are experiencing with your Ionic while tracking those exercises. 

It is always preferable to use the Exercise app on your watch for the different types of exercises you are performing as they include an algorithm designed for those specifically.

If you keep experiencing the same with your heart rate readings and see no difference when using the Exercise app; you could try performing a restart on your watch. This usually helps when data is not being tracked correctly.

Please try this out and let me know how it goes!