A pedometer shows you how little you have walked
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
May 18, 2016 6:34am CST
Most people think that they have walked enough for weight loss.
They think that they have walked thousands of steps from the car park to their office.
The problem is that they overestimated the number of steps they have taken. They do not have a pedometer to tell them the actual number of steps.
While at home, I thought I have walked a lot because I spent all my morning doing housework.
I have the pedometer clipped to my pants the whole morning.
The pedometer shows that I have walked just 1000 steps during the 5 hours. That means I walk about 200 steps per hour.
That is way less than the recommended 10,000 steps for health maintenance.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
20 May 16
@flapiz It can happen.
That 1000 steps probably due to the length of the stride.
Even if you both walked together, the length of the stride will mean that one person takes more steps than the other.
If she takes a toilet break more than you, and you stand outside to wait for her, she is likely to have 200 or more steps more than you.
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Sorry, I typed something wrong in my response above. My eyesight gets worse
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
18 May 16
I use a pedometer too but in five hours no way can one walk only 1000 steps if one has been moving around all the time. I walk anywhere between 11000 to 12,000 steps each day including walking for an hour in the evening. I feel that your pedometer is showing wrong figures..
It takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile; and 10,000 steps would cover almost 5 miles. A sedentary person may only average 1,000 to 3,000 steps a day.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
18 May 16
My home is just a small apartment. It is about 30 steps from one end of the apartment to the other end.
Doing housework is not necessary walking.
Washing vegetables, dishes, cooking and laundry do not take up a lot of walking, so the number of steps is really very little.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
18 May 16
so instead of telling you how much you've traveled so far, it tells you how much farther you have to go! hahaha!
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
19 May 16
A pedometer by a good company is good.
Mine is Omron pedometer, the company that makes the monitor for heart beat monitoring and blood pressure.
They let you adjust the setting so that it does not get too sensitive to every movement that you make.
I get mine free of charge for taking part in a company event.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
18 May 16
The recommended 10000 steps is the bare minimum to maintain good health!
I think you can try to walk a bit more.
Last time there was a survey of nurses here in Singapore.
They really walked a lot in their job, easily exceeded 12,000, and that did not include the walking to work, and for activities after work.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
18 May 16
@scheng1 I do not walk enough, but I do cycling twice a week for my health, I hope it compensates
. I do not doubt that nurses are walking a lot : they spend their time to jump from a room to another one. I was looking for something in a general store a few weeks ago, it was very large and I realized that the employees were probably making several kms every day during their work. A good job to exercise their legs
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. I do not doubt that nurses are walking a lot : they spend their time to jump from a room to another one. I was looking for something in a general store a few weeks ago, it was very large and I realized that the employees were probably making several kms every day during their work. A good job to exercise their legs.1 person likes this
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
18 May 16
@topffer I think those employees in the large store must be trim and fit.
Even if they do not walk all over the store, as they are in charge of one sector or a few aisles, they still have to stack up the goods, and that is physically tiring work.
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
18 May 16
I had a pedometer a long time ago and found it easy to make the 10,000 steps even-though I worked in an office environment. I found most movements, even movements made while sitting at the desk registered something (for example sliding your chair over to the next desk registered the steps involved).
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
19 May 16
Either you do not have a good pedometer or you do not know how to adjust the sensitivity.
Mine is Omron, a good brand.
They make the blood pressure and other health monitors too.
You can adjust the sensitivity until the number of steps is accurate.
It does not measure any jerk or movement, and it can count the steps (especially going down stairs) accurately.
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@Marilynda1225 (91126)
• United States
19 May 16
You are right..last time I used a pedometer I was way under what I thought my steps were
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