How to get Accurate Heart Rate from your Smartwatch or Sportswatch

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1. Sensors are white supremacists ?

2. Does it help if I wear the watch inside facing rather than outside as that is closer to my pulse for heart rate?

3. I found this video while trying to find out why my Garmin Venu 2 heart rate data keeps dropping out. I have now moved my watch further up my forearm and made sure its nice and snug. I also have two full tattoo sleeves which may be affecting the sensors so will look into stickers you mentioned too.

4. I like the elastic-style cotton bands. Comfortable and stretchy

5. great video, ty.

6. Does arm hair affect the results ?

7. Excellent! Epix -Gen2

8. Thanks dude, i love my fenix 6 but HR was so sketchy i bought a 7x. Same issue, but i have a full tattoo sleeve. After this video i switched it to the other arm. It feels terrible but, it is reading perfectly! Thanks for the tip

9. Nice video, actionable info efficiently delivered. Thank you!

10. Buddy the wrist band trick to protect watch is Gold. I love this channel!!!

11. I have dark skin and my watch won’t take my heart rate accurately, what else can I do?

12. Does sunblock have any effect on the light-based reading? thank you for this informative clip!

13. My brother and I had a discussion about this while running a trail the other day, he has a forerunner, I have a 6pro, and sometimes the readings are just like night and day different. Would be great to have like a small capsule that would be inserted under the skin to be able to measure absolutley everything, like bp, spo2, c02 levels,hr, blood sugar, lactates etc, and send all data in real time to your device, being a watch or a mobile, you could track your training to perfection, especially the pro athletes

14. I do have a question I wear a Samsung smart watch and in looking at my heart rate over the past year it only shows three times where my heart rate went to 209 bpm which is absolutely deadly it doesn’t show what time it only shows what month each time however was 209 I have checked my fit etc. And I’m not finding anything else however where I live the roads are extremely bumpy and I drive in a small golf cart up and down those bumpy dirt roads the ride is extremely jarring at times could that possibly be my watch assuming that is a pulse rate when it’s actually Me hitting a pothole

15. Can you make your heart rate appear higher than it actually is on a smartwatch, fake a high heart rate? Thank you! Your video was very insightful.

16. Thank you

17. Which watches shown here are the top 3 most accurate for heart rate measurement?

18. Hey Des,
    do you have any tips for metal strap smartwatches? I just bought my Huawei GT 3 Pro titanium strap watch and I have some hard time to make it fit good. I have a quite wide wrist (23cm above the bone at the wrist). I expand the strap by adding extra 2 part to the strap to have the 2 finger rule, but eventually it will slide down if I'm just hanging with my arms. The human forearm/wrist is kinda shrinking as its going towards the hand, so is there anything I can do?

19. What an irritating voice!!

20. VERY helpful – thank you!

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