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My #Garmin watch has been pushing up my auto-detected maximum heart rate for months now. (fantastic.earth)

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My #Garmin watch has been pushing up my auto-detected maximum heart rate for months now.

And now it says my max HR is 211! Either I'm getting more and more fit as I age (early forties now), or something is fishy. Since my workouts are based on my max HR, they have been also getting more difficult over time. I checked reddit and found many people complaining about this. So today, I manually set the max HR to a reasonable value.

Anyone else faced this issue? @running @garmin #running #runnersofmastodon

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[–] Anticorp 4 points 2 months ago

Your heart rate will be elevated easier as you get older, and your max safe heart rate will decrease. But this does sound like an error. I have the Fenix 5X, and I've never had this issue, but occasionally it'll set off an alarm for an irregular heartbeat. I manually check my pulse with my fingers when it does that, and it seems fine. I'd call Garmin if I were you.