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It would be great if Fitbit added a strain or recovery score based on HRV or RHR, or workout HR recovery. .Whoop & the Oura Ring both have it. A body temp sensor would be great too!
I currently wear my Blaze and another tracker (JayBird Reign-No longer on the market). Reign offers a feature that proves invaluable to me especially as a fitness trainer that I think if integrated into FitBit it would take the tracker to the next level. The feature Reign offers is called Go-Zone. Upon waking first thing in the morning it requires you to touch and hold the tracker sensor for 2 min while it reads your electrical pulse to determine how ready you are for exercise for the day. If you score low it advises you rest and if you score mid to high it tells you to get out and kick butt. Sometimes we push ourselves too hard or not hard enough and knowing when to fall back or ramp it up has been helpful. I would LOVE to see FitBit offer this so I can have it all in ONE tracker.
Fitbit should provide the user with a readiness score that is calculated by sleep and other recovery aspects and also heart rate variability. This is very helpful for college and pro athletes as it allows them to understand how much stress their body is prepared to withstand that day, allowing them to better plan out their daily training.
Hi Fitbit community! I've been looking into the Oura ring recently, and I really love the daily readiness feature of the app. But, I love my Fitbit too! I would prefer my Fitbit over the Oura ring device, but I would also enjoy having a daily readiness tracker in the app. It compiles information such as previous night's sleep, sleep balance, and previous day's activity to determine if you're rested enough to train optimally. I like that it can help with figuring out what your activity goal for the day should be/if you need to rest up more.
Hello @HannahHarrelson! Thanks for sharing this suggestion, I moved it to this similar post so you can add your vote to it. Please keep sharing your ideas with us!
Hi @B4goose. Thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion about having a strain or recovery score based on different heart rate details with us. We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. If this suggestion receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs. Watch this space for status updates. In the meantime, try visiting Health & Wellness to talk with other members about all things health and fitness.
I just ordered another Fitbit but now am disappointed that I did. I didn’t know that was an option offered by competitors, for about the same price. It would be if you guys would add that feature
a little bit dissapointing that this feature is not yet implemented since it seems that the devices already register HRV. the iwatch and the whoop do that with very good results assessing strain and recovery. All the rest of the proposed features is just fancy things but not real stuff for tracking. And many people is switch to conpetitors and i am
thinking about the same.This is a buy/no buy decission feature...not water loging,or easier interfaces.
It could be interesting and useful to be able to calculate your recovery based on 4 physiological markers: Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Resting Heart Rate (RHR), sleep, and respiratory rate. These metrics are calibrated to your baseline, which means your recovery is personalized each day. This recovery score could be like the sleep score!
Hi @FélixL, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to see recovery score based on HRV. Thanks for sharing your feedback. I've moved it into a similar request. A lot of users are asking for this option, I hope we receive updates soon.
Has there been any development on this? I think this is vital and the whole point of tracking calories, sleep, etc...
I want to know before going into the next days session if my recovery is in the yellow/green so that I can expect more or if I should take it easier because of multiple days of bad recovery.
I bought a Fitbit Sense (the most expensive Fitbit smartwatch) and I expected to be the state of the art in terms of health data collected (as @FélixL explained and as @Calexander19 requested).
The minimum effort from Fitbit should be at least provide the user detailed Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Resting Heart Rate (RHR), sleep, and respiratory rate accordingly.
If you're an amateur athlete or even a pro and want to understand how your body reacts to physical efforts and recovery you should consider other products as Fitbit doesn't know what to do with the data that collects.
You can get that information, just have to pay for Premium.. other products, like whoop, also require premium subscriptions that cost more than fitbit’s.
I did the 6 month premium trial and it definitely gives you HRV and Resting sleeping heart rate. Pretty sure you locate it by clicking on your sleep statistics. You also get resting heart rate without premium.
I agree with you, fitbit could do more, but considering alternatives I think it’s pretty good. Whoop may give you more data, but there are also annoying things about it too. It doesn’t have a display for one, so you can’t see heart rate during a workout without opening your phone. You also can’t use it for a clock (obviously with no display). And not to mention the cost is more than Fitbit.
I can dig a little more one my disappointment as a Fitbit user and mainly as a Fitbit Premium User:
I don't have access to HRV, Sp02, Breathing Rate (BR) and skin temperature on Desktop (only on the app)
I can't extract HRV, SpO2, BR and RHR from the platform to use it myself (lets say I want to build a performance training tool based on that data)
Fitbit itself does not know how to use this data to help me on my daily training as Whoop does.
Finally I slight agree with you, Fitbit seems to be cheaper than Whoop, although with Whoop you are paying for valuable information, that's why they are succeeding.
And I'm not saying that Fitbit Sense does not worth the money for the average smartwatch user, I'm saying is that if you're an amateur athlete or even a pro and want to understand how your body reacts to physical efforts and recovery you should consider other products.
The data is collected by both devices,whoop and sense...why they dont show it or do something interesting with it? HRV now is only showing trend with no much value.
I am thinking of going to Apple Watch they are doing cool things with workout data. They have a heart rate recovery function & also provide actual HRV data. They are constantly innovating their watch for fitness applications and data
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