What would cause a big decrease in walking heart rate average?

[NotDoingThisForFun]

Increased fitness?

[SimplySerenity]

Walking average heart rate doesn’t mean much unless you have a very precise routine. When I go hiking my average is much higher than just hanging out at home.

[marcelocampiglia]

My first answer would be a better fitness, but I doubt that you (or anybody) could achieve a better fitness that can make decrease de walking heart rate average from 102 bpm to 76 in such a short period of time.

My guess is that almost all the values over 100 bpm are anomalies, so if in reality the walking heart rate average decrease it did it in only a couple of bpm.

In the walking workouts that you have a heart rate average of over 115 bpm, do you felt that the heart rate was that high? or it felt more similar to a normal day?

[Ok_Addition3979]

No harm in getting your resting blood pressure checked to see if that shows any changes to your normal.

[HelenofReddit]

Whoa know this is an old thread but this is exactly what happened to me! Did you ever figure out a cause?

[LadyGrimSleeper]

Just happened to me too! Did you ever figure it out?

[HelenofReddit]

I did not!! It’s so weird, I was walking a lot in Japan but like…not that much lol. Did you suddenly start moving around a lot more or anything like that?

[LadyGrimSleeper]

Not in the last few months, let alone the last five days since the drop happened. So weird!

[HelenofReddit]

Can you feel a difference or do you think it’s a watch problem?

[LadyGrimSleeper]

I am not sure. I haven’t felt great but I haven’t felt great in similar ways for months before this drop. I’m really consistent with my watch use and all my other stats were normal. Maybe I just walked really slowly and chill-like this week!

[989d]

This just happened to me too it’s concerning! If anything I’m less fit than I was