Why Per-Shift Heart Rate Changes Everything

Hockey is an interval sport. You push near-maximal effort for 45 seconds, then rest for 2–3 minutes on the bench. Your fitness isn't measured by your average heart rate over a 90-minute game — it's measured by how consistently you can hit peak intensity and recover in time for the next shift.

Generic fitness trackers blur all of this together. You see a single average BPM for the session, which is dragged down by all your bench time. It looks like a moderate workout — even after a grueling game where you never came off the ice.

Per-shift HR gives you the data that actually matters:

Peak BPM reached during each shift — did you go all-out?
Average BPM per shift — how sustained was your effort?
Recovery trend — is your HR dropping faster in shift 15 than shift 5?
Game fatigue pattern — when in the game did your intensity drop?

170+

Typical peak shift BPM

45s

Average shift length

2–3min

Bench recovery window

Advanced shift analytics with heart rate scatter plots

Per-Shift HR in the Post-Game Breakdown

After your game, open the Time On Ice app on your phone. Every shift is listed with its own heart rate data — average BPM and peak BPM — isolated from your bench recovery periods.

The scatter plot view lets you see shift quality across the full game: duration on one axis, average heart rate on the other. You can immediately spot which shifts were short and intense versus long and efficient, and track how your effort changed as the game progressed.

Over a full season, this builds a picture of your cardiovascular development that no other Android hockey app can provide.

Per-Shift HR: How the Options Stack Up

App / Device	Per-Shift Heart Rate	Bench HR Excluded	Platform
Time On Ice	✓ Per-shift avg + peak	✓ Bench isolated	Wear OS (Galaxy, Pixel, Ultra)
HockeyTracker	✓ Per-shift avg + peak	✓ Bench isolated	Apple Watch only
Samsung Health	✗ Game average only	✗ Blended with bench	Wear OS (Galaxy Watch only)
Garmin	✗ Session average only	✗ No shift awareness	Garmin OS

How to Monitor Heart Rate Per Hockey Shift on Your Smartwatch

Why Per-Shift Heart Rate Changes Everything

Per-Shift HR in the Post-Game Breakdown

Per-Shift HR: How the Options Stack Up

Related Features

SEE EVERY SHIFT,
FEEL EVERY PUSH.

Why Per-Shift Heart Rate Changes Everything

Per-Shift HR in the Post-Game Breakdown

Per-Shift HR: How the Options Stack Up

Related Features

Auto Shift Detection

Indoor Skating Distance

SEE EVERY SHIFT,FEEL EVERY PUSH.

SEE EVERY SHIFT,
FEEL EVERY PUSH.