Pedometer counting

"Dally" wrote in message
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JMA wrote:
"Dally" wrote in message

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally

Depressing but true! I only get just over 2,000 steps per mile.

Okay, this seems to be the consensus. It just wasn't intuitive. In
fact, it still isn't intuitive: I put mine on first thing this morning
AFTER I'd already been downstairs to let the dog out and start coffee
and gone upstairs and showered and it shows I've gone over 900 steps
just folding laundry, making breakfast and reading the paper. It's not
even 9:20 and my hair isn't even dry yet and I'm already at the half
mile mark when I feel like I've done nothing. Hmmmm.

The pedometer has a pendulum or shifting weight mechanism inside that moves
(and counts) when you transfer weight from one foot to the other. It can be
overly sensitive and count steps when you are standing in one place doing
things like folding laundry, if you shift your weight around. It also
doesn't differentiate between large and small steps.

- Dewolla

"Dally" wrote in message
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JMA wrote:
"Dally" wrote in message

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally

Depressing but true! I only get just over 2,000 steps per mile.

Okay, this seems to be the consensus. It just wasn't intuitive. In
fact, it still isn't intuitive: I put mine on first thing this morning
AFTER I'd already been downstairs to let the dog out and start coffee
and gone upstairs and showered and it shows I've gone over 900 steps
just folding laundry, making breakfast and reading the paper. It's not
even 9:20 and my hair isn't even dry yet and I'm already at the half
mile mark when I feel like I've done nothing. Hmmmm.

The pedometer has a pendulum or shifting weight mechanism inside that moves
(and counts) when you transfer weight from one foot to the other. It can be
overly sensitive and count steps when you are standing in one place doing
things like folding laundry, if you shift your weight around. It also
doesn't differentiate between large and small steps.

- Dewolla

"Dally" wrote in message
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Dewolla Stepon wrote:

Dally, the 1.05 mile loop around my neighborhood takes 1,918 steps for
me,
and I have a fairly long stride (I'm 6'3"). Two miles for me would be
about
3,800 steps. Using ratios, 4,400 steps for two miles should put your
height
at 5'3". If that's true, then your pedometer is working right.

Thanks, Dewolla. I'm about 5'6". I hadn't heard you were 6'3". That
gives me a whole 'nother image of what your weight must look like on
you. Have you ever posted pictures? I don't think I've ever seen you.

Even at my approximately 200 pounds now people say I look thin and don't
have to lose any more weight. Height is an advantage in that respect, but
it does have its drawbacks. When I was growing up it was my job to clean
all the high places, even the top of the refrigerator where no one else
could see.

I've never liked to have my picture taken, I am not what you would call
photogenic. I did run across one photo of me taken a couple of years back
at a Christmas party, when I was at my heaviest, thankfully its too blurry
to share!

My transformation pictures are at
http://www.body-for-life-tracker.com...file.cfm?id=34

I haven't updated them in a while, but frankly I have only lost 2 net
pounds in the three months since my last picture was taken. I gain, I
lose, I regain, I relose... I feel pretty stalled these days. If the
overall trend weren't slightly (every so slightly) in the negative I'd
say I was done.

You are doing great, Dally! Quite a change.

- Dewolla

"Dally" wrote in message
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Dewolla Stepon wrote:

Dally, the 1.05 mile loop around my neighborhood takes 1,918 steps for
me,
and I have a fairly long stride (I'm 6'3"). Two miles for me would be
about
3,800 steps. Using ratios, 4,400 steps for two miles should put your
height
at 5'3". If that's true, then your pedometer is working right.

Thanks, Dewolla. I'm about 5'6". I hadn't heard you were 6'3". That
gives me a whole 'nother image of what your weight must look like on
you. Have you ever posted pictures? I don't think I've ever seen you.

Even at my approximately 200 pounds now people say I look thin and don't
have to lose any more weight. Height is an advantage in that respect, but
it does have its drawbacks. When I was growing up it was my job to clean
all the high places, even the top of the refrigerator where no one else
could see.

I've never liked to have my picture taken, I am not what you would call
photogenic. I did run across one photo of me taken a couple of years back
at a Christmas party, when I was at my heaviest, thankfully its too blurry
to share!

My transformation pictures are at
http://www.body-for-life-tracker.com...file.cfm?id=34

I haven't updated them in a while, but frankly I have only lost 2 net
pounds in the three months since my last picture was taken. I gain, I
lose, I regain, I relose... I feel pretty stalled these days. If the
overall trend weren't slightly (every so slightly) in the negative I'd
say I was done.

You are doing great, Dally! Quite a change.

- Dewolla

"Dally" wrote in message
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I went on a hike with my family this evening. It took about an hour and
a half and was fairly rigorous - it went up a ridge and then back down
again - too difficult for the mountainbikes so we hiked on foot.


Anyway, I wore my McDonald's pedometer just for grins and chuckles.

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Earlier in the day we went shopping at both a warehouse store and a
supermarket, then parked on Main Street and walked to a couple of nearby
stores. Other than that I was sedentary. I have no idea what kind of
pedometer mileage that activity would have given me, but I'm really
quite shaken that going hiking for a couple of miles doesn't even get me
half way to 10K steps.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally


The McDonald's pedometer isn't entirely accurate if you're not walking on an
even surface or if you're wearing some types of footwear (sandals, for
example). There's a little sheet that was included with the pedometer that
explains when the mechanism may not be "true".
Cheers,
Morgs

"Dally" wrote in message
...
I went on a hike with my family this evening. It took about an hour and
a half and was fairly rigorous - it went up a ridge and then back down
again - too difficult for the mountainbikes so we hiked on foot.


Anyway, I wore my McDonald's pedometer just for grins and chuckles.

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Earlier in the day we went shopping at both a warehouse store and a
supermarket, then parked on Main Street and walked to a couple of nearby
stores. Other than that I was sedentary. I have no idea what kind of
pedometer mileage that activity would have given me, but I'm really
quite shaken that going hiking for a couple of miles doesn't even get me
half way to 10K steps.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally


The McDonald's pedometer isn't entirely accurate if you're not walking on an
even surface or if you're wearing some types of footwear (sandals, for
example). There's a little sheet that was included with the pedometer that
explains when the mechanism may not be "true".
Cheers,
Morgs

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:31:39 -0400, Dally wrote:

I went on a hike with my family this evening. It took about an hour and
a half and was fairly rigorous - it went up a ridge and then back down
again - too difficult for the mountainbikes so we hiked on foot.

Anyway, I wore my McDonald's pedometer just for grins and chuckles.

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Earlier in the day we went shopping at both a warehouse store and a
supermarket, then parked on Main Street and walked to a couple of nearby
stores. Other than that I was sedentary. I have no idea what kind of
pedometer mileage that activity would have given me, but I'm really
quite shaken that going hiking for a couple of miles doesn't even get me
half way to 10K steps.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally


My McD pedometer gives me roughly between 2600-2900 steps for about a
mile and maybe a tenth or so.

Cynthia

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:31:39 -0400, Dally wrote:

I went on a hike with my family this evening. It took about an hour and
a half and was fairly rigorous - it went up a ridge and then back down
again - too difficult for the mountainbikes so we hiked on foot.

Anyway, I wore my McDonald's pedometer just for grins and chuckles.

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Earlier in the day we went shopping at both a warehouse store and a
supermarket, then parked on Main Street and walked to a couple of nearby
stores. Other than that I was sedentary. I have no idea what kind of
pedometer mileage that activity would have given me, but I'm really
quite shaken that going hiking for a couple of miles doesn't even get me
half way to 10K steps.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally


My McD pedometer gives me roughly between 2600-2900 steps for about a
mile and maybe a tenth or so.

Cynthia

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:45:55 GMT, "Dewolla Stepon"
wrote:

"Dally" wrote in message
...
JMA wrote:
"Dally" wrote in message

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally

Depressing but true! I only get just over 2,000 steps per mile.

Okay, this seems to be the consensus. It just wasn't intuitive. In
fact, it still isn't intuitive: I put mine on first thing this morning
AFTER I'd already been downstairs to let the dog out and start coffee
and gone upstairs and showered and it shows I've gone over 900 steps
just folding laundry, making breakfast and reading the paper. It's not
even 9:20 and my hair isn't even dry yet and I'm already at the half
mile mark when I feel like I've done nothing. Hmmmm.

The pedometer has a pendulum or shifting weight mechanism inside that moves
(and counts) when you transfer weight from one foot to the other. It can be
overly sensitive and count steps when you are standing in one place doing
things like folding laundry, if you shift your weight around. It also
doesn't differentiate between large and small steps.

- Dewolla



Yep, my McD does this... also my more expensive (but old) Sportline
355. It will happily register just a shift of weight.

I don't tend to think they are that useful for accurately counting
steps (of a normal stride length) when doing chores around the house.

Cynthia

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:45:55 GMT, "Dewolla Stepon"
wrote:

"Dally" wrote in message
...
JMA wrote:
"Dally" wrote in message

I'm out walking for 1.5 hours and it only said I did 4400 steps.

Does this seem reasonable to you? I'd say it was only about two miles -
the pace wasn't always brisk because so much of it was vertical and I
was sometimes carrying my five year old, but I didn't stop and sit down
or anything.

Does this make sense to you?

Dally

Depressing but true! I only get just over 2,000 steps per mile.

Okay, this seems to be the consensus. It just wasn't intuitive. In
fact, it still isn't intuitive: I put mine on first thing this morning
AFTER I'd already been downstairs to let the dog out and start coffee
and gone upstairs and showered and it shows I've gone over 900 steps
just folding laundry, making breakfast and reading the paper. It's not
even 9:20 and my hair isn't even dry yet and I'm already at the half
mile mark when I feel like I've done nothing. Hmmmm.

The pedometer has a pendulum or shifting weight mechanism inside that moves
(and counts) when you transfer weight from one foot to the other. It can be
overly sensitive and count steps when you are standing in one place doing
things like folding laundry, if you shift your weight around. It also
doesn't differentiate between large and small steps.

- Dewolla



Yep, my McD does this... also my more expensive (but old) Sportline
355. It will happily register just a shift of weight.

I don't tend to think they are that useful for accurately counting
steps (of a normal stride length) when doing chores around the house.

Cynthia