Heart rate measurement on your HUAWEI watch
| Heart rate measurement on your HUAWEI watch |
Continual heart rate monitoring is enabled by default, which displays your heart rate curve. If this feature is disabled, you will be prompted to visit Huawei Health and toggle on the switch for Continuous heart rate monitoring.
To ensure optimal monitoring accuracy, fasten the device snugly one finger width above your wrist bone for the best possible fit. Make sure that the watch remains secure on your wrist during workouts.
Individual heart rate measurement
- Open Huawei Health, navigate to the device details screen, go to , and toggle off Continuous heart rate monitoring.
- On your watch, open the app list and select Heart rate (
) to initiate an individual measurement.
Heart rate measurements may be affected by external factors such as low ambient temperatures, arm movements, or tattoos on your arm.
Continuous heart rate monitoring
Open Huawei Health, navigate to the device details screen, go to , and toggle on Continuous heart rate monitoring.
- Smart: Automatically adjusts the frequency of measurements depending on your state of activity.
- Real-time: Monitors your heart rate in real time regardless of your state of activity.
Real-time monitoring will increase the power consumption of your device, while Smart monitoring is more power-saving.
Resting heart rate measurement
Resting heart rate, measured in beats per minute, refers to the heart rate measured while you're awake but in a quiet, resting state. This is an important indicator of heart health. The best time to measure your resting heart rate is first thing in the morning after waking up (but before getting out of bed).
Open Huawei Health, navigate to the device details screen, go to , and toggle on Continuous heart rate monitoring. Your wearable device will then automatically measure your resting heart rate.
There are some prerequisites for your resting heart rate to be displayed. Suboptimal measurement time may lead to deviations or no result in your resting heart rate measurement.
Heart rate alerts
High heart rate alert
Open Huawei Health, navigate to the device details screen, go to , toggle on Continuous heart rate monitoring, and set High heart rate alert to suit your needs. Your wearable device will vibrate and display an alert when you've been in a resting state and your resting heart rate stays above your set limit for more than 10 minutes.
Low heart rate alert
Open Huawei Health, navigate to the device details screen, go to , toggle on Continuous heart rate monitoring, and set Low heart rate alert to suit your needs. Your wearable device will vibrate and display an alert when you've been in a resting state and your resting heart rate stays below your set value for more than 10 minutes.
- When your wearable device detects that you're asleep even though Sleep mode is disabled, it will not vibrate to notify you of high/low heart rate alerts. When it detects that you've waken up (with motions such as raising your wrist, pressing the button, or taking off the device), it'll vibrate and display the alert screen.
- When Sleep mode is enabled, your wearable device will not vibrate to notify you of high/low heart rate alerts, but will only display the alert screen.
- When your wearable device vibrates four times to notify you of high/low heart rate alerts, you'll need to swipe right on the screen or press the Up button or side button to exit the alert screen.
Heart rate measurement during a workout
During a workout, your wearable device displays your real-time heart rate and heart rate zone, and notifies you when your heart rate exceeds the pre-set upper limit. For better training results, you're advised to use heart rate zones as a guide for your exercise.
- To choose the calculation method for heart rate zones, go to Huawei Health > . For your runs, set Heart rate zones to Maximum heart rate percentage, HRR percentage, or LTHR percentage. For other workout modes, choose either Maximum heart rate percentage or HRR percentage.
- If you select Maximum heart rate percentage as the calculation method, your heart rate zones for different workout intensities (namely Extreme, Anaerobic, Aerobic, Fat-burning, and Warm-up) are calculated based on your maximum heart rate (HRmax = 220 – Your age).
- If you select HRR percentage as the calculation method, your heart rate zones for different workout intensities (namely Advanced anaerobic, Basic anaerobic, Lactate threshold, Advanced aerobic, and Basic aerobic) are calculated based on your heart rate reserve (or HRR, determined by taking your maximal heart rate and subtracting your resting heart rate).
- After you start a workout, you'll see your real-time heart rate on your wearable screen. At the end of the workout, you can view your average heart rate, maximum heart rate, and heart rate zones on the workout results screen.
- During a workout, your real-time heart rate will not display once your wearable device is removed from your wrist, but the device 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 on the Huawei Health home screen.
High heart rate alert during workouts
Your wearable device will vibrate and display an alert when your heart rate is over the preset upper limit for a certain period of time during a workout.
- Go to Huawei Health > , and toggle on High heart rate.
- Touch Heart rate limit, set the upper limit to suit your needs, and touch OK.
If you disable audio reminders for individual workouts, you will be alerted through vibrations and card prompts only, without audio broadcasts.
