Last Updated on August 24, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219/
Rob ter Horst recommended in one of his videos the Polar H10 with 99.6 signal quality as the “gold standard in research”.
- Rob uses the Polar 10 as a reference device to study the accuracy of smartwatches in his reviews.
- The Polar H10 as an accuracy reference device for accuracy studies?
- The Polar H10 is a ECG chest strap wich only a single ECG channel.
- But to reach the highest accuracy, 3 ECG channels are required according to this paper:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2720055/
Why do sports scientists choose a Polar H10 chest strap as their «gold standard» device, which cardiologists and physiologists do not accept as a gold standard device, since it does not meet the requirements to be a gold standard device for heart rate measurements?
Should the issue that there is no 3 channel ECG device which can handle with noisy ECG signals caused by intense activities with strong body movements not also be an issue for sports scientists and Rob ter Horst? An issue which should be resolved as soon as possible, on request of the the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen, author of the above paper, and Rob ter Horst, which uses the paper as a scientific basis for his studies, and other (sports-) scienists? But by keeping silent about this topic and glorifying the Polar H10 chest strap, scientists loose their credibility.