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Pedometers
I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day.
There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? My plan is to figure out my current average number of steps, then, try to add what seems to be an easily managed number of additional steps every day or two until I am walking about 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) a day. Nat 254/229/140 SB since 7/19/04 |
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Wow. Didn't know there was a big deal for people to hit five miles a day, but I
guess in this one case I'm very fortunate... I don't need the pedometer or anything because I walk over six miles a day just to get to school and back! Yay for me! |
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Nat TheBrat wrote:
| I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day. | There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of | features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the | purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. | | Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? | | My plan is to figure out my current average number of steps, then, try | to add what seems to be an easily managed number of additional steps | every day or two until I am walking about 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) | a day. | | | Nat | 254/229/140 | SB since 7/19/04 Buy a McDonald's adult happy meal (salad and drink) and they'll give you one free. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html |
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Nat TheBrat wrote:
| I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day. | There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of | features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the | purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. | | Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? | | My plan is to figure out my current average number of steps, then, try | to add what seems to be an easily managed number of additional steps | every day or two until I am walking about 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) | a day. | | | Nat | 254/229/140 | SB since 7/19/04 Buy a McDonald's adult happy meal (salad and drink) and they'll give you one free. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html |
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"marengo" wrote in message ... Nat TheBrat wrote: | I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day. | There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of | features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the | purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. | | Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? | | My plan is to figure out my current average number of steps, then, try | to add what seems to be an easily managed number of additional steps | every day or two until I am walking about 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) | a day. | | | Nat | 254/229/140 | SB since 7/19/04 Buy a McDonald's adult happy meal (salad and drink) and they'll give you one free. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html I had two from McDonald's and they only counted every other step. Bought one from Wal-Mart for $8 (US) and a little change. Used it on some measured distances and it has been very accurate. |
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I think I saw an ad that says Special K cereal has one in the box... :-)
I like my Oregon Scientific model with a pulse meter. They even make one with an FM radio... http://www.weathertools.com/oregon/s...ers_index.html HTH Steve "Nat TheBrat" wrote in message m... Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? Nat 254/229/140 SB since 7/19/04 |
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I think I saw an ad that says Special K cereal has one in the box... :-)
I like my Oregon Scientific model with a pulse meter. They even make one with an FM radio... http://www.weathertools.com/oregon/s...ers_index.html HTH Steve "Nat TheBrat" wrote in message m... Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? Nat 254/229/140 SB since 7/19/04 |
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"Newby" wrote in message ...
"marengo" wrote in message ... Nat TheBrat wrote: | I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day. | There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of | features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the | purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. | | Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? | | My plan is to figure out my current average number of steps, then, try | to add what seems to be an easily managed number of additional steps | every day or two until I am walking about 10,000 steps (about 5 miles) | a day. | | | Nat | 254/229/140 | SB since 7/19/04 Buy a McDonald's adult happy meal (salad and drink) and they'll give you one free. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html I had two from McDonald's and they only counted every other step. Bought one from Wal-Mart for $8 (US) and a little change. Used it on some measured distances and it has been very accurate. I got one from the my grilled chicken salad happy meal too and mine works just fine. Important to recognize that sometimes pedometers have a tough time calculating distance if you are wearing heels, etc. Great thing to have though and it totally motivates you to pay attention to how many steps you're taking towards burning those cals. |
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"marengo" wrote in message ...
Nat TheBrat wrote: | I'm interested in buying a pedometer to track how much I walk a day. | There are quite a number of brands/styles out there with a variety of | features, and the price range I've seen is wide, from "free with the | purchase of a salad and a bottle of water" at McDonalds to almost $50. | | Does anyone have a recommendation WRT features I might find useful? snip Buy a McDonald's adult happy meal (salad and drink) and they'll give you one free. My teenager has one of the McDonald's stepometers. The one he has is very inaccurate. Even taking into consideration that it counts every other step, the count by the stepometer vs a manual count shows the stepometer undercounts, often by quite a lot. OTOH, it sometimes counts when he's not even walking. Yesterday, for example, he had it on while he was a passenger in the car, and the stepometer kept adding steps while we were driving. The vibrations of the car caused that perhaps? I don't know if there's something wrong with the one he got or if they're all like his. Ah, well, I didn't expect much from an adult Happy Meal toy. :-) At any rate, the local McD's doesn't have them anymore. Nat 254/229/140 SB since 7/19/04 |
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