Free pedometer

I got one of these Kelloggs pedometers in Jan.

They are quite flimsy - the back clip broke off mine after a week, which meant I couldnt clip it onto my waistband any more.
I ended up buying a more sturdy one.

You're supposed to aim for 10,000 steps a day, so I find that really encourages me to walk more, to reach and beat the target.
 
Brendan said:
It's not quite free. You do have to buy a packet of Bran Flakes.

Brendan
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You need the best before date from 2 boxes. Not excatly hard to obtain. No Purchase nessasary
 
The kellogs pedometer isn't very good. I got mine yesterday and it's counting 2 or 3 steps for every one I take. I used to have one from Dunnes that cost €8 and that was extremely accurate (but I stood on it and broke it!).
 
Since this morning it says I've done 5131 steps but my old pedometer used to say about 3500-4000 steps by this stage. I'm going to keep it on all day (except at the gym) and see how it compares to the old one - I used to average about 12000 steps if I remember correctly.
 
Cahir said:
I'm going to keep it on all day (except at the gym) and see how it compares to the old one
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It will probably record various bumps and movements throughout the day as steps even if they are not.
I used to average about 12000 steps if I remember correctly.
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Bit difficult to make a useful comparison if you don't actually have accurate figures for the other one?
 
ClubMan said:
Bit difficult to make a useful comparison if you don't actually have accurate figures for the other one?
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Have the accurate figures now (recorded on an excel spreadsheet) but just didn't early this morning. I averaged 13420 steps per day, when I didn't include a week I was sick with tonsillitis and another day I took over 50000 steps, because those were exceptions.

This new pedometer is way too sensitive.
 
I've tried various pedometers over the years and they never seem to work. It's an investment with a lot of "feel good factor" but, like the treadmill at the gym that says 20 minutes of jogging has burned 500 calories, probably not something to bet the house on!
 
Cahir said:
another day I took over 50000 steps
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The guideline recommendation of 10,000 steps per day is about 5 miles of an average stride so 50,000 would be about 25 miles or probably about 5 hours of walking!

As an experiment I tried out one of those Kelloggs pedometers and it seemed pretty accurate once it is attached as explained on the instructions (i.e. parallel with the ground and not angled in any way). I counted exactly 200 steps and it recorded 208 - the excess most likely attributable to messing about while resetting and checking it. My c. 1 mile walk to/from work recorded as c. 2000 steps each which sounds about right.
 
ClubMan said:
The guideline recommendation of 10,000 steps per day is about 5 miles of an average stride so 50,000 would be about 25 miles or probably about 5 hours of walking!
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25 miles was about right for that day although the day went from 7am til about 3am the next day so maybe that should have counted for two days of walking.

The kelloggs pedometer seems to be out by about 2 or 3 hundred steps per day compared to the other pedometer and I don't think I'm walking much more than I used to.
 
Maybe yours is faulty or not attached correctly. I tested one again today and for the third time it recorded just over 2000 steps for the route to work. I don't have another device to cross check it against but I did do a 200 step test and it measured them more or less accurately (as mentioned above). Similarly the 2000 step route to work correlates to the actual distance as measured on the likes of the Gmaps Pedometer and the websites.
 
I got someone else to measure their steps on my pedometer and for 33 steps it recorded 38 (small distance in the office). I'm not too worried about it now because I know I do at least the minimum recommended :)
 
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