How to create a heart rate notification while working out.

This guide is for people who want to work out within a particular heart rate range. Useful for older people, or workout newbies.

How it works is you would get an alert soon into the Workout that you were Below Zone followed by repeated alerts til you are In zone, then you may get another alert Above Zone if exceeding the top of your chosen zone.

You can then slacken off your effort and once back below the limit your next alert is In Zone. Each alert gives a buzz and shows current heart rate, and announced over the speaker if you invoke spoken feedback in workout settings.

If you have a medical condition where is is dangerous to exceed a certain Heart Rate then please note

• The alert is only a single buzz and a ping and a voiceover
• Apple Watch should not be considered to be a medical device.

First get your Watch ready for maximum notifications

1. On iPhone, Watch app, My Watch tab, Sounds &Haptics, turn Alert volume to maximum, and set Haptics to Prominent
2. On Watch, Settings, Siri, Siri responses, Voice volume - Speaker, set to maximum

Then set your own heart rate zones.

Open the Settings app on your iphone's Watch app, My Watch.

(This part can be done on Watch as well but this is easier)

Go to Workout > Heart Rate Zones.

Tap Manual, then tap zone 2, 3, or 4, then enter lower and upper limits.

If you are in danger of harm if you get too high a heart rate then I suggest you set the zones artificially low to test it then set to the right zones once you know it will buzz you.

To get your workout of choice to give alerts, open a workout but don't start it.

Tap the three dots (...) in top corner of the workout and follow the options for heart rate zones and related notifications.

This is the Sequence of watch screens

FOR WATCH OS 9 and earlier Tap the pencil

FOR WATCH OS10, OS11, scroll down and tap Preferences

Tap on Alerts

Tap on Heart Rate

Tap the zone for which you want a Below and an Above Zone alert.

Then tap the Heart Rate left arrow at the top to back out then all the other back arrows back to the Workout start screen, then press Digital Crown to exit.

You can have a different zone fir other workouts. Personally I use zone 2 for walking, and zone 3 for jogging. However the zones themselves are fixed across all workouts.

For other options and full details consult the knowledge base article

Use the Workout app on your Apple Watch – Apple Support