Daily Resting Heart Rate

[Fredup]

When is the daily resing heart rate measurement taken. Or is it a running average which is displayed at any point in time?

Regards

Mart

[SteveH]

It isn't single snapshot of your heart rate but seems to be calculated from a range of measurements. Here's what fitbit say (although it's a little light on detail):

"HOW IS RESTING HEART RATE MEASURED?

Resting heart rate refers to the heart rate measured when you’re awake, calm, comfortable, and have not recently exerted yourself. We use your heart rate data from when you’re awake and asleep to estimate your resting heart rate. For best accuracy, wear your tracker to sleep. 

Your resting heart rate is usually higher than your heart rate while you are asleep, so don’t be surprised if your resting heart rate is higher than the lowest number that you see in your heart rate graphs. "

taken from: http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1565/

[Fredup]

Should have made it clearer I was referring to the number displayed on the Dashboard.

[shipo]

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@Fredup wrote:
Should have made it clearer I was referring to the number displayed on the Dashboard.

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Then the link posted by @SteveH should answer your question.

[Fredup]

No it only tells me what a resing Heart Rate is!

[Chris1963]

It's an estimate and I take no notice of it since it has varied between 55 and 70 over a year and not in a downward direction. It's all over the place. It rises after heavy exercise days as clearly my HR is recovering during rest periods. It goes up if I have a beer and sleep it off (as heart is working harder) and plummets if I do a ten mile walk with a low max HR (around 100 walking). It's not consistent so its another piece of Fitbit data I ignore.  It certainly doesn't give me any indication of improving CV fitness.

However by taking my bpm just after I wake before getting out of bed, which is the traditional way to do it, this has been consistent at 57 for the same time period, give or take a beat or two.  

[Fredup]

Thanks Chris1963

It would be nice to have some way of recording a HR snapshot on demand with the time.

I will give the morning check a go

Fredup

[RobertoME]

Hi there @Fredup and @Chris1963. The article @SteveH and @shipo mentioned are a good way to start addressing your questions. As your Resting Heart rate is measured when you re calm or not moving. However this does not mean it will stop reading when you are doing an exercise. as this BPM is also take in consideration as it helps to determined the average of your resting Heart Rate. Over the first quarter of the year the resting Heart rate was improved reason why you noticed an increased on this numbers.

Fitbit is dedicated to developing the most consistently accurate wrist-based activity trackers on the market. We are constantly working to provide customers with the best experience possible by releasing new features and updates to improve our products, including features like tracking resting heart rate. The success of our products comes from empowering users to see their overall health and fitness trends over time — it’s these trends that matter most in achieving their goals.”

Let me know how it goes, I'll be around.