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I'm loving my Fitbit Charge HR, been using it since the middle of last week. It's been a good motivational tool and is also giving me some insight into things. One thing I've noticed is the effect of exercise on my heart rate. Below is a screenshot of Friday's heart rate graph. Between 7am and 12pm I was mostly at my desk with some short trips through the office. Heart rate goes into the 50's at times while I'm sitting. At noon I took a 3.5 mile walk doing laps through the parking garage and ended it with running up and down 12 flights of stairs which got me up into the cardio zone. Between 1pm and 6pm I'm mostly sitting again but my heart rate remains elevated compared with the morning. 6pm to 7pm was on the exercise bike - afterwards mostly sitting again but now my heart rate remains elevated higher than before for a few hours until bed. It's said that we continue to burn fat and our metabolism is elevated for a period of time after vigorous exercise, and my heart rate chart seems to show that...very encouraging. Here's the chart: [/img] The other thing I've noticed is the chart doesn't show my peak heart rate in real time as it occurred during exercise. For example running the stairs I was up around 135 bpm according to my fitbit but the chart peaks around 120 bpm. On the bike was really interesting as it has a heart rate monitor built in that measures in real time. It took my fitbit several minutes to "catch up" to what the bike was reading, after pedaling around 10 minutes they were very close to each other in readings. Also my peak heart rate in real time was around 153 bpm but the fitbit chart only recorded around 135 bpm peak. I think all this is because the fitbit results record an average of 5 minutes in time. This smooths out the peaks and valleys, and there's a bit of lag time with the fitbit as it plays "catch up" to real time heart rate because of the averaging. Not really a problem, but just something interesting to make note of.
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Fat: 40.61g | Prot: 178.34g | Carbs: 161.23g.
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JMB that is cool that you can do that!!! Definitely keeping track of your heart rate is important in your situation and being able to have a record is incredible.
16 Jun 15 by member: wholefoodnut
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Very nice, how do you get the graph to post?
16 Jun 15 by member: Kiwinana
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Kiwinana, I did a screen copy of my dashboard from the fitbit website, then pasted it into Paint on my computer and saved it as a jpeg (picture) file. I opened the jpeg with Microsoft Picture Editor and cropped out every thing except the graph and saved that. Uploaded that to photobucket so I could insert the picture into my journal.
16 Jun 15 by member: jmb3450
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