Scoring for heart rate recovery
Heart rate recovery is measured in the first one minute post exercise while remaining still. How does Apple score the amount of the heart rate drop as being poor vs average vs excellent?
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Heart Rate Recovery
This is a special measurement the watch takes after you finish a workout. To get the best numbers here, make sure to end your workout on the watch right when you end it in real life.
It takes a measurement one minute after the workout ends, and then another at two minutes. The result is a pair of numbers that tell you how many beats per minute your heart rate decreased after working out. So if you were sprinting at 180 bpm, and then a minute later your heart rate was 160, that’s a 20 bpm drop.
The faster your heart rate returns to normal after exercise, the better. More fit people will have larger decreases here, for example 30 instead of 20.
What’s normal? About a 20 beat decrease per minute is normal. Less than a 12 beat decrease could be reason for concern, but again, that’s a question for your doctor.