I use the water lock when I work out which has helped that. Also, I have disabled the SOS function as one time I was doing Front Squats and my watch almost called 911. One last thing is when I do barbell exercises I flip the watch around so that I have it sitting on the inside of my wrist like this image I found online
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It still reads my heart rate and does not get in the way of doing Cleans, squats, and presses.