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160 of 184 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Keep Track To Succeed!, 29 Sep 2008
I have an Omron pedometer while my wife has another brand. I have to say that pedometers are probably one of the best (and most fun) ways to stay in shape and lose weight. Set up is easy, and once you're done with that, there's nothing left to do but to do it!
So how much should you walk? The most common recommendation is 10,000 steps a day- which is equivalent to about 5 miles. They get the 10,000 number from studies showing that adults who get this much exercise a day are healthy.
However know too that some research is beginning to show that some populations might need more, or can get by with less. For instance children may need more steps than this and some older adults may not be able to sustain 10,000 steps/day (one study found that a sample of HEALTHY older adults involved in weekly exercise programs reached an average of about 6,500 steps- suggesting that older adults may be able to get by with just 6,000 steps a day or so).
So what if you just want to lose weight? Well, I suggest starting out by first seeing how many steps you get on an average day at your current weight. Then, try to add steps each day, working up to 10,000 over time.
See where your weight is at when you reach the 10,000 step level, and if you still need to lose more, try to add another 2,000 steps a day. Keep in mind that each 2,000-2,500 steps is about a mile, or 100 calories for a 150-pound person.
So if you're looking to drop a few pounds, or simply get fitter, try a pedometer! Also recommend The Sixty-Second Motivator for anyone who needs more motivation to stick with an exercise program.
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87 of 102 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Walking back to happiness, 7 April 2009
I have had several pedometers before and they have all stopped working after a while. I had begun to think that they were all so cheap and cheerful that no manufacturer could be bothered to make one robust enough to last more than a couple of months.
So I tried this one, following the reviews, as a last resort.
Firstly, the set-up - I have no idea what the review below is on about, but it is so simple to get working that my inquisitive 7 year old daughter did most of it for me.
As to the functions, it tells you steps and calories and distance walked - all the usual stuff. The really good bit is that when I got on my stepper machine, it recognised the difference from normal steps and started counting these as aerobic steps. Pressed the button once and it told me how long I did them for. Pressed it again and it had also added them into my total steps for the day. Pressed the other button and it told me how many steps, aerobic steps, calories, distance and time I did yesterday. Press it again and it gives me the same information for the day before that. You really don't need a maths degree.
Is it accurate? Well it counted the same number of steps as my stepping machine, with the added degree of difficulty that it counted them from my waistband and not from my foot pressing up and down, so I was impressed. I went cycling and it counted each complete turn of the pedals as a step and ended up recording the same distance travelled as the gizmo on my bike. If I walk from the bedroom to the bathroom, turn around on the spot and then walk back, it counts all the steps, so unlike many pedometers it recognises every step you do and not just those when you are striding out across the countryside or similar. I'd say its accurate enough.
And finally, 2 extra features which really clinch it for me.
Firstly, it has a safety clip, so if it pops off your waistband when you sit down, the safety clip saves it hitting the deck and breaking or getting lost.
Secondly - and here's the big one - it counts accurately from inside your trouser pocket as well as your waistband, so at last there's no need to advertise to the world that you're counting your steps if you don't want to.
Simply the best pedometer I've ever owned. Would give it 6 stars if I could.
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285 of 348 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
BEWARE - THIS IS NOT A PEDOMETER!, 3 Aug 2006
The Omron is a perfectly good step counter - but having bought one, I find it is NOT a pedometer!
What is the difference? First, it cannot be reset. It resets itself to zero at midnight every night - but you can't reset it yourself, except by poking a pen into a little hole in the back - which resets everything, including memory, stride length and time/date... So if you want to find out how far a specific walk is, you have to note the distance at start and deduct it at the end. And you get no walk-specific information whatsoever about time, distance or speed.
Also, it works only in km, so a further calculation is required if you want miles.
As a daily step counter it is fine, well made and accurate so far as I can tell. But it fails as a pedometer, and I feel the product description is misleading in calling it one and failing to mention that it won't do miles..
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