Omron Jog Style Pedometer

The Omron Jog Style Activity Monitor utilises the functionality of both a traditional pedometer for daily step counting, with a variety of informative workout monitors for use whilst jogging. Combing the two concepts together allows for a handy exercise monitor that incorporates your day-to-day exercise from walking, with a regular exercise routine. The result is a very good idea of the kcal and fat burned off during an entire day, as well as a good record of how many steps were taken during the 24hr period. With this data, the user can easily monitor their all round exercise levels, making the activity monitor an ideal gadget for maintaining a good exercise schedule and setting challenging but achievable weekly goals.

Once you have plumbed in the necessary physical details of the user (weight, height & stride length), the activity monitor is good to go. For beginners, the monitor estimates your stride length from the data input for your height and weight. The average stride length can be altered at a later stage when the correct figure can be more accurately calculated (details of how to do this are included within the informative instruction manual).

The activity monitor can be easily attached to yourself using the large clip holder that the whole monitor slots into, the smaller strap clip, using the looped strap around your wrist or neck, or by merely popping it into a pocket or bag.

After your workout, the results displayed are:

- Workout time
- Workout distance travelled
- Workout calories burned
- Workout average speed

The monitor also displays:

- Daily steps counted
- 24 hour time
- Daily calories burned
- Daily fat burned

Once the monitor reaches midnight, it resets the results for a new days worth of exercise. However, the monitor keeps a seven day record of all of your results, allowing you to easily reflect back on your past weeks data.

All in all, the Omron Jog Style Activity Monitor is a handy little monitoring device for anyone who is reasonably serious and committed to maintaining a daily exercise routine. The functionality of the monitor is incredibly easy to use on a day-to-day basis. The monitor itself is very lightweight, with a strong durable exterior.

If you want to keep tabs on how your daily exercise is going (both from day-to-day walking as well as from a jogging routine) then this activity monitor really is a handy piece of equipment. The technology is far from groundbreaking, but the simple design and its ease of use makes the Omron Jog Style Activity Monitor a good little gadget to help you along. Recommended!

With jogging/running, I need something for distraction and motivation. I'm a rubbish runner so need to focus away from how stupid I look! I've been using Nike Plus, but it only offers me distraction, not motivation - yes there's a the bland pedometer and distance covered, but it whenever I change track on the IPod I seem to lose Nike Plus data anyway. This jogging pedometer is fantastic for motivation - accurately recording distance, steps, times, fat and calorie burn and average speed (Trying to be beat my last average speed is my new motivation!).

My only gripe is that it doesn't have a miles option, only Kilometers, but I realise it's me that's out of date rather than a flaw with the machine!

I have been using this for a few months now, and can report that it that it continues to work well. There are plenty of cheaper pedometers on the market, but most of then are not suitable for jogging. This one is and whilst I am more into walking than jogging, I can see the added benefit of having a multi-purpose machine.

The use is straight forward and the gathering of stats for calories burned as well as distance travelled is a good incentive for keeping on with the fitness regime. It is easily read but relatively unobtrusive. About the only downside I can see is the lack of an ability to set different profiles for different users. Recommended.