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Calculating resting heart rate - Instant Heart Rate application for smartphones

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    #32
    digger2d2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭digger2d2


    murphd77 wrote: »
    Has no one cross tested with a real HRM yet? Interesting, but I am sceptical.

    Yep, I did, got 49/50 on the app and 43/44 on the Garmin HRM


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    #33
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    digger2d2 wrote: »
    murphd77 wrote: »
    Has no one cross tested with a real HRM yet? Interesting, but I am sceptical.

    Yep, I did, got 49/50 on the app and 43/44 on the Garmin HRM
    I just cross tested against my pulse and got:
    App;36
    Pulse;36

    By the way, it is similar (in implementation) to the methods used to monitor heat rate in hospitals.


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    #34
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,459 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    digger2d2 wrote: »
    Yep, I did, got 49/50 on the app and 43/44 on the Garmin HRM

    Not very encouraging then. Krusty's test is more positive though.


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    #35
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    murphd77 wrote: »
    Not very encouraging then. Krusty's test is more positive though.
    To be honest, having used Garmin HRMs constantly for the last 5 years (11,364 miles according to my profile), I would trust a talking seagull looking me squarely in the eye, to provide a more accurate HR reading that a Garmin. What would bother me more in terms of accuracy is (as a poster above stated) it provided a different reading across different devices. This would definitely point out a flaw in the system (though you could still use it from a relative difference perspective, rather than paying any attention to the actual value.

    Interestingly, the app actually provides a visual indication of when it detects a 'beat', so if you check your pulse at the same time, you can see that they are in synch (may need three hands :)). I have an iphone as well as an Android, so I'll compare results (though it might worry my work-mates).


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    #36
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    Very interesting app. Thanks.
    Don't know to much about HR's and only been running a little over 3 months or so.
    I tried about 5 readings over the last hour. Not completely resting but sitting on the sofa. I have had to get up between the readings but they are consistently between 49-54.
    I assume being well in the green zone that (if accurate) they'd be quite good readings for a previously very unfit 30 year old.
    My GF's readings are in the high 70's and my sister in the high 80's and early 90's


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    #37
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Just took my HR on the iPhone and Android at the same time.
    First time:
    iPhone: 62
    Android: 61

    Second time:
    Android: 58
    iPhone: 57

    That's good enough for me.


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    #38
    opus
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    I read earlier that Google are having an app sale over the next five days to celebrate 25 billion app downloads :eek: so worth keeping an eye on the market to see if you could snag the pro version for cheap.


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