Surge Heart Rate Increasing at End of Workout

[SunsetRunner]

I'm getting this weird situation, I'm basically walking home and I manually take my rate and I'm around 100 bps, but the fitbit is showing me 160+ bps. I've seen lots of complaints about being too low, but not too many about being too high.

If you look at the graph below, you can see the problem. I did 15 minutes of cardio after lifting weights. From 0-15 minutes it does a good job of capturing my walking and running phases. But you can see from 15 to 23 minutes where I forgot to turn it off, my HR spikes to 160+ which is preposterous, because during this time I'm walking back from the gym and my actually heart rate never goes above 110.

Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

[RobertoME · Accepted solution]

Hello @SunsetRunner, welcome aboard to our community. There are different reason why your heart beat readings go up at the end of your workout. One if these can be movement, temperature, humidity, stress level, physical body position, caffeine intake, and medication. Another one and is the one that I have experienced sometimes, is the placement of the tracker. Moving the tracker up a couple inches can be helpful particularly during exercises that cause you to bend your wrist frequently.

When I play soccer, I usually got a heart reading of 120 bpm and at the end remain at 110 bpm, what I do in my case is to clean the heart rate sensor of any sweat it may have and the readings goes back to 80 bpm. Perhaps you should try this, although if the discrepancy is to frequent I recommend to restart your Charge HR. If you need the steps for this, take a look at this post, it may come handy.

Hope it helps and see you around if you have more questions.

[SunsetRunner · Accepted solution]

Thanks Robert, I'll try cleaning it off after I'm done my workout, going forward.