resting hear rate accuracy

[johnbnj]

Resting heart rate is critical for health reasons, having been shown to be predictive of cardio vascular health and all cause mortality. My sense indicates a RHR about 6-10 beats higher than reality, I know this because in the morning I wake up and use a polar arm band and take my RHR for a few minutes. This is how RHR is supposed to be taken: when you wake you take your heart rate. I'm extremely annoyed that fitbit can't do this accurately. Is there any fitbit device that is more accurate? If not I might have to use another brand. 

[JohnnyRow]

"Resting heart rate" can have different ways of being measured.  Fitbit does not divulge its exact way of measuring but it is common to get measurements at rest below Fitbit's RHR.  That does not affect the usefulness of Fitbit's RHR.  It serves the same purpose, when looked at the trend to judge fitness changes, and possibly when getting sick.

The traditional method of measuring HR first thing in morning was developed assuming heart rate was not getting measure throughout the day and night, so you could consider Fitbit's method has more info to go on.

Consider your method, what if you are woken up startled by an alarm causing your HR to suddenly jump way up.  Does that make a good RHR?

Fitbit's method serves the same purpose.  Just stick with it, and don't go jumping back and forth between different methods of measurement, considering them equivalent.

[johnbnj]

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[johnbnj]

Johnny thanks for your reply but the problem with Fitbit’s rhr is that it negates reference to a multitude of studies done on the rhr since it doesn’t conform to the generally accepted medical practice.