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It’s not calibrated properly. You have to set it to your stride and set the sensitivity.
Like a pedometer that counts your steps…is there something that counts how many times you swear by recognizing the words and counting them? Believe it or not this is a serious question. I just think it would be hilarious to know how many times my friends and I swear per day…
I just got a pedometer to track my steps throughout the day, but I want to know if it will work correctly if I jog on the treadmill or do any other kind of fast excercise. I had to input my stride length into the pedometer so it tracks steps specific to me, but if I run, won’t my steps be longer?
1. The very first thing that you need to do is to establish that the pedometer that you are using is accurate and consistent. To do this, reset the step count on the pedometer and walk exactly 20 steps counting as you go. Check what the pedometer counted and compare. If your count and the pedometer count is within 1 step of each other, then you’re good to go. Repeat this for 50 steps and if the count difference is 2 or less then you’re good to go. Repeat this for 100 steps and if the count difference is 3 or less then you’re good to go. If the count differences (either up or down) are greater than these suggestions, then your pedometer is no good for you. Get another.
2. To determine your stride length, do as follows. Visit a local athletic track and ensure the 400 meter distance marked in any lane is in fact 400 meters. (I found very big differences between the lanes.) Now set your pedometer step count to zero and start to walk with your normal stride at your normal speed. After you have returned to your starting point, check what the step count is on the pedometer. Record this count. Repeat this exercise at least twice more to get two additional pedometer counts of how many steps you take to walk 400 meters.
Determine the average of all three counts by adding them up and dividing by 3. Round off to the nearest single step. This number will be the average number of steps that you take to walk 400 meters. If you now divide 400 meters by this number, you will get the average length of your normal stride when walking on level ground. This stride length will have units of meters per step. (For example, I take 421 steps, as counted on my pedometer, to walk 400 meters. My stride length is then = 400 meters / 421 steps = 0.95 meters per step.) It is this number that you must now program into your pedometer. Of course, if are using the Imperial or US system of measurement, simply work in units of feet, yards or miles, or whatever.