![]() ![]() Afterwards it provides you with the time spent running, a graph of your heart rate and the time spent in the three heart rate zones, calories burned and steps taken. The Alta HR automatically recognises and categorises 15 minutes or more of running as an exercise event (although you can reduce this time limit in the settings). They’ve already managed to fit a heart rate monitor into the Alta’s svelte frame. In the Fitbit range, that’s present in the Charge 2 and above, but Fitbit can be forgiven the omission on the Alta HR. One feature that can be found in other models in this price bracket, but isn’t present on the Alta HR, is an altimeter to count stairs climbed. Fitbit seems to know that and offers breakdowns of your steps over a day, a week, a month, three months or a year. With all things tracker-related, it’s not really the absolute number that counts, it’s how it changes over time. We found ourselves hitting the 10,000-step goal a little earlier in the day than usual (we are very much creatures of habit) so the Alta HR may be a bit more sensitive to movement, but not outrageously so, and we have no way of knowing if our previous tracker was more or less accurate. There’s also the option in the app to change the step target up or down, depending on your starting point and progress. The step goal is still front and centre when you open the Fitbit app, but we’re fine with that – 10,000 steps is a perfectly legitimate marker and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. The 10,000 steps goal took a bit of kicking earlier this year, although Fitbit can happily point to its 2017 focus on heart rate and sleep to avoid some of the heat. RECOMMENDED: The Best Heart Rate Monitors Using The Fitbit Alta HR For Step Counting Occasionally, however, we did find it didn’t display a heart rate during exercise even though we were wearing it according to Fitbit’s guidelines for exercise (tight and two finger-widths above the wrist bone). Our resting heart rate moved around appropriately according to how healthily we were behaving and there were no outlandish readings when we looked at the screen during exercise. We haven’t tested the Alta HR against a chest strap (which are inevitably more accurate), but we found it mostly passed the “that’s reasonable” test. One question with all wrist-based heart rate monitors is accuracy and the ability to respond quickly to rapid changes in heart rate. It acted as a timely reminder to us, at least, that we should put more effort in. The screen can be hard to read in daylight and there’s an art to getting the screen to activate.Īfter exercising you’ll find a breakdown of your session in the app, which will give you a line graph of your heart rate for the duration and a breakdown of time spent in certain zones: fat burn (essentially light exercise), cardio (moderate exercise) and peak.Reviewing the times spent in certain zones is especially useful if you take a HIIT class where, if properly structured, you should be hitting the peak zone regularly, if briefly. ![]() ![]() SmartTrack is great, but apart from your heart rate there’s no mid-exercise info displayed on the tracker’s screen, which is especially frustrating when running. It’s so close in price to the Charge 2 we can’t help but feel it’s worth paying that bit more, even if the Charge 2 is less svelte. While this is true across all Fitbit models with a heart rate monitor, the Cardio Fitness score and sleep tracking provide essential context to help you understand your numbers. ![]() While there’s no advertised assisted GPS as on Fitbit’s Charge 2, there is a workaround using the Fitbit app that does pretty much the same thing.Īpart from the Apple Watch 2, you won’t find another feature-packed tracker that looks so good. SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition never puts a step wrong and saved us from forgetting to press stop at the end of a session (happens a lot). Adding a heart rate monitor brings all manner of benefits for just £30 more (than the standard Alta). ![]()
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