4 tips if your heart rate monitor isn't registering data

To save the data of your heart rate monitor on your smartphone or smartwatch, you have to connect the devices via Bluetooth. Go through the following steps:

• Tip 1: check if you're wearing the heart rate monitor correctly
• Tip 2: reconnect the heart rate monitor to your Bluetooth device
• Tip 3: replace the battery
• Tip 4: clean the heart rate monitor

Your heart rate monitor can only measure your heart rate if you have it on properly. Wear it on around your chest or under your bra strap and make sure that it's in direct contact with your skin. The strap shouldn't be too tight, that would be uncomfortable. But if the strap is too loose, the heart rate monitor doesn't measure your heart rate accurately. You should wet the skin under the heart rate monitor slightly, so it conducts better. Dry skin doesn't conduct as well as wet skin.

It might help to reset your heart rate monitor. Wear the heart rate monitor around your chest and reset it via the app on your smartphone or smartwatch. Reconnect it with the steps in the manual of your heart rate monitor

If you have an irregular heart rate according to the heart rate monitor, if it doesn't show a heart rate at all, or if it shows strange peaks and valleys, the battery of the heart rate monitor might be empty. With some heart rate monitors, you can easily replace the battery yourself. Other heart rate monitors have to be replaced entirely when the battery is empty. If you get a new battery, the heart rate measurements should be accurate again.

Does your heart rate monitor show strange values? It's possible that it's dirty due toe salt, sweat, or bodily fluids. Make sure to check if your chest strap is waterproof and go through the following steps. 1: clean the heart rate monitor with cold or lukewarm water. 2: remove the monitor from the elastic strap and rinse the strap well. 3: in the future, rinse the strap after your workout and clean the heart rate monitor with a damp cloth.