Resting Heart Rate is Wrong- how to recalibrate?

[SunsetRunner]

Fitbit is reading my resting heart rate too high, and the result is that the app often thinks I’m sleeping when I’m not! How can I recalibrate it and/or tell it that I’m not asleep? Recently I was sitting at my desk working, so basically in resting mode, and I noticed that my current heart rate was 62. However, the app thinks my RHR is 70, and it tried to record that time as sleep. 

[Julia_G]

Hi, @SunsetRunner , Fitbit calculates resting heart rate a little differently than a medical definition.  It samples your heart rate through the day and night calculates resting based not only on when it detects you are sleeping, but on times when you are still and the device has not recorded any recent activity.  So for most people the resting heart rate is a little higher than the medical definition.  My Fitbit very often shows a HR below my “resting” number when I am not asleep.

The Fitbit should not detect that you are asleep merely because your HR falls below the calculated resting rate.  Is it possible that “sleep” accidentally got turned on in your settings menu? 

I hope this helps.  Welcome to the forums!

You can always delete a false sleep log - it will not erase any of the statistics it captured during that time; it will simply no longer categorize it as sleep.