Hey folks

I have a fitbit, which I use for HR, step tracking, and HIIT workouts I do on off days, and I use Jefit for my main strength training. With some recent changes to increase effort/HR during my strength training, the extra sweatiness of me is making my fitbit not work as well for HR during workouts.

I have specific cardio goals to meet, so getting relatively good data on my HR is important to me. I have a Polar H10 I could use, but I’d need to use Beat/Flow, which will then cause sync issues with Jefit and its own data going to Google Fit (I’ve had fun with this in the past).

I don’t have this issue with Fitbit, since rather than a Fit sync, its Health Connect, and just syncs the data throughout the day in the background, and I don’t sync activities from Fitbit.

Any ideas?

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    4·
    10 months ago

    Hey there,

    This isn’t about your issue specifically, but if you are serious about tracking your heart rate, you shouldn’t use a fitbit anyway, especially during workouts most fitbits have less than 70% accuracy. In moderate activities, it is still under 85% accurate. Using the H10 is important if you want some form of accuracy and don’t have an Apple watch & iPhone.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDhtnxkuao&

    For your actual question, I don’t use Jefit, but it seems like they don’t have too much flexibility from some Google searching. You could try syncing to Google fit from Strava because it can directly take heart rate from the H10 and has a strength profile instead and see if that plays nicer?

    Many fitness apps can do heart rate. It is on the developer to integrate it or play nice with Google fit. It seems like a lot of strength apps fall short on this a hit.

    • CurbsTickle@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      This isn’t about your issue specifically, but if you are serious about tracking your heart rate, you shouldn’t use a fitbit anyway, especially during workouts most fitbits have less than 70% accuracy. In moderate activities, it is still under 85% accurate. Using the H10 is important if you want some form of accuracy and don’t have an Apple watch & iPhone.

      This is exactly why I intend to use something else. And I have zero interest in Apple products.

      For your actual question, I don’t use Jefit, but it seems like they don’t have too much flexibility from some Google searching. You could try syncing to Google fit from Strava because it can directly take heart rate from the H10 and has a strength profile instead and see if that plays nicer?

      Strava, MFP, etc., do not do workout tracking to the degree I’m interested in. Time for a session and HR data vs individual exercises, weights used, time per set, etc is what Jefit offers. I use Strava for cycling, which its great at, but it is not going to meet the needs for a weight training session. Fitloop, fitnotes, MFP, etc - tracking elsewhere is going to miss out on other important data, which is why backend communication is important.

      Many fitness apps can do heart rate. It is on the developer to integrate it or play nice with Google fit.

      Google Fit and Health Connect are different things. Health Connect is a backend service that shares data between apps which use it, whereas sync to Fit would be more of a one-way push. I’m looking for Health Connect based solutions, as a sync to Fit can overwrite session data, or cause some data to be missed.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but health connect literally just got rolled out earlier this year. The app list is extremely short. Google might kill it in the next year or two also. It apparently is also only available on newer phones in the pixel line (4 phones or something?)

        Everyone will have to wait until it is integrated with other apps, but it doesn’t seem like it will be a priority just like how Material You hasn’t been a huge priority for many apps. Maybe putting pressure on the devs would do something?

        • CurbsTickle@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          10 months ago

          There has been quite a bit of interest on polar forums to support health connect - I’m almost at the point of dealing with Polar’s SDK just to do it myself and be done.

          The list isn’t exactly small though - aside from Fitbit (which obviously would support it, because Google), Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, Flo, Signos, Proov, Tonal, Oura, Withings, etc all support Health Connect already. Not exactly a small list. Fitbit and Withings are two I use regularly

          In my opinion, despite liking their physical products, Polar has always lagged behind pretty far in the app realm.

    • undercrust@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is the only answer. The H10 is the only HRM that is worth a damn for accuracy during workouts, especially something intense like HIIT.

      FWIW the Polar app is great too, and very privacy-friendly. It does sync automatically with Google/Fitbit services.