Apr 20, 2025
User-specified (Custom) Heart Rate / Zone
I am trying to do Maffetone heart rate zone training, which is well known in the running community, and requires staying at a particular heart rate (as close as possible) during a run. There is a formula for this target heart rate, that is very specific to the user activity and injury history so it cannot be built into the pixel watch. Thus the user must be allowed to define it - not the watch.
Currently the watch auto-defines all heart rate zones, based on the configured max heart rate (220 bpm default, or user configured). Unfortunately this amount of configurability is insufficient for the Maffetone training use case.
I would like to stay at 121 bpm when running. So I'd like to define a custom zone from 117-125 bpm. I'd like the watch to notify me if I'm below or above that target zone.
I think this question may be appropriate for the fitbit user community forum, but you must own a fitbit exercise tracker, not a pixel watch, to post to the fitbit user community forum.
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