Measuring your heart rate
| Measuring your heart rate |
Continuous heart rate monitoring is enabled by default, which allows a heart rate curve to be displayed. If this feature is disabled, you will be prompted to open the Huawei Health app, and toggle on the switch for Continuous heart rate monitoring.
To guarantee a more accurate heart rate measurement, wear the device correctly and ensure the strap is fastened. Make sure that your device is secure on your wrist during workouts.
Individual heart rate measurement
- Open the Huawei Health app, enter the device details screen, go to , and toggle off the switch for Continuous heart rate monitoring.
- Open the device's app list and select Heart rate (
) to measure your heart rate.
This measurement may also be affected by some external factors such as low blood perfusion, tattoos, a lot of hair on your arm, a dark complexion, lowering or moving your arm, or low ambient temperatures.
Continuous heart rate monitoring
Open the Huawei Health app, enter the device details screen, go to , and toggle on the switch for Continuous heart rate monitoring. Once this feature is enabled, your device can measure your real-time heart rate.
- Smart mode: Monitors your heart rate based on your training load.
- Real-time: Monitors your heart rate in real time regardless of your training load.
Using Real-time mode will increase the power consumption of your device, while using Smart mode will adjust the heart rate measurement interval based on the activity intensity and help to save power.
Resting heart rate measurement
Resting heart rate refers to your heartbeats per minute measured when you are awake, still, and calm. It is an important indicator of your heart health. The best time to measure your resting heart rate is immediately after you wake up in the morning.
Open the Huawei Health app, enter the device details screen, go to , and toggle on the switch for Continuous heart rate monitoring. The device will then automatically measure your resting heart rate.
- The resting heart rate data on the device will be cleared on its own at 00:00 (24-hour clock) or 12:00 midnight (12-hour clock).
- Your actual resting heart rate may not be displayed or accurately measured, as it is not always the case that your heart rate was automatically measured at the best time.
Heart rate alerts
High heart rate alert
Open the Huawei Health app, enter the device details screen, go to , enable Continuous heart rate monitoring, and set High heart rate alert. Your device will vibrate for a long duration to alert you when you are not doing a workout and your heart rate stays above your set limit for more than 10 minutes.
Low heart rate alert
Open the Huawei Health app, enter the device details screen, go to , enable Continuous heart rate monitoring, and set Low heart rate alert. Your device will vibrate to alert you when you are not doing a workout and your heart rate stays below your set limit for more than 10 minutes.
Heart rate measurement for a workout
During a workout, the device displays your real-time heart rate and heart rate zone, and notifies you when your heart rate exceeds the upper limit. For better training results, you are advised to do a workout based on your heart rate zone.
- To choose the calculation method for heart rate zones, open the Huawei Health app, go to , and set Heart rate zones to Maximum heart rate percentage, HRR percentage, or LTHR percentage for running, or to Maximum heart rate percentage and HRR percentage for other workout modes.
- If you select Maximum heart rate percentage as the calculation method, the heart rate zone for different types of workout activities (Extreme, Anaerobic, Aerobic, Fat-burning, and Warm-up) is calculated based on your maximum heart rate ("220 minus your age" by default).
- If you select HRR percentage as the calculation method, the heart rate interval for different types of workout activities (Advanced anaerobic, Basic anaerobic, Lactic acid, Advanced aerobic, and Basic aerobic) is calculated based on your heart rate reserve ("HRmax minus HRrest").
- Heart rate measurement during a workout: The real-time heart rate can be displayed on the device when you start a workout. After completing your workout, you can check your average heart rate, maximum heart rate, and heart rate zone on the workout results screen.
- Your heart rate will not be displayed if you remove the device from your wrist during the workout. However, it will continue to search for your heart rate signal for a while. The measurement will resume once you put the device back on.
- You can view graphs that show the changes in your heart rate, maximum heart rate, and average heart rate for each workout from Exercise records in the Huawei Health app.
Exercise heart rate upper limit
After you start a workout, your device will vibrate to alert you if your heart rate value has exceeded the upper limit for more than 60 seconds.
- Open the Huawei Health app, go to , and touch Heart rate limit.
- Select the heart rate upper limit value you want to set, and touch OK.
If you disable voice for individual workouts, you will only be alerted through vibrations and card prompts.