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Heartrate way to high when walking. Can not get fixed

Welcome2theHellmouth
Welcome2theHellmouth Posts: 206 Member
edited November 17 in Social Groups
I have a fit bit charge HR. The heart rate is constantly messed up when I go walking on my lunch hour or on the weekend.I have contacted fit bit several times and reset it a million times but it never changes. it's constantly going up to 150 or 160 causing it to say I burned like 600 cal while walking on 50 min my lunch hour when I'm barely walking at 2.5 miles an hour. When it's not doing that normally at 50 minutes I'm about at 370 cal. As you can see this is showing me burning more than 1000 extra calories a week because of this issue. Does anyone else have experience with this and got it to stop doing it?

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Welcome2theHellmouth wrote: »
    I have a fit bit charge HR. The heart rate is constantly messed up when I go walking on my lunch hour or on the weekend.I have contacted fit bit several times and reset it a million times but it never changes. it's constantly going up to 150 or 160 causing it to say I burned like 600 cal while walking on 50 min my lunch hour when I'm barely walking at 2.5 miles an hour. When it's not doing that normally at 50 minutes I'm about at 370 cal. As you can see this is showing me burning more than 1000 extra calories a week because of this issue. Does anyone else have experience with this and got it to stop doing it?

    Well what are your stats and how is your resting HR?
  • Welcome2theHellmouth
    Welcome2theHellmouth Posts: 206 Member
    My resting is 59. I'm 40 5'8 220lb When it's working right even if I walk on the treadmill at 4.5 mph it barely gets to 125/130. But this constant going up to 140-160 while walking slow is nuts.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    edited April 2017
    Ok that's really odd! I'd ask for a replacement.

    I do have weird high readings occasionally but then it resets and is blank for a bit and comes back to normal.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Non-electro method of HR reading isn't as accurate - and for some people it's just way worse.

    You may have a bad unit - you may have a poor ability to be read with accuracy.

    You can borrow someone's unit that works for them, or store demo, and hold it up to several areas and confirm it works or doesn't.
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