Wrist-worn activity trackers provide reasonably accurate heart rate measurements compared to reference devices, though accuracy decreases at higher heart rates.
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Supports cautious HR monitoring with wrist-worn trackers at lower intensities; leaves open reliability questions at higher rates for practice and trials.
HR data from the examined wrist-worn trackers were reasonably accurate in both the settings, with the Polar A370 showing stronger agreement with the Polar H10 and smaller errors. Inaccuracies increased with increasing HRs; this was pronounced for Tempo HR.
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Müller et al. (2019) studied this question.
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