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Today I blog about my new Omron Model HJ-151 Pedometer.
My chiropractor said yesterday that I was looking good, and I showed him my new gadget. The best thing about it is that it's got a memory, and lets you see your progress day to day, and the moderate steps vs. calories, really gets you to think about your walking ad how much you're exercising. Anything that can get us to think more about our health is a good thing.
Plus it's neat to try and estimate distances, and then check against the pedometer. For example, I now know that my typical car parking spot is about 250 steps from my office, and a walk around the block the office is on is just short of 1000 steps. So if I went out and circled the block just 10 times, I'd be close to the goal of 10,000 steps a day.
I'll track my progress on the page about the pedometer. |
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Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness
Mark Fenton$12.95(USD)
Mark Fenton, television personality and author of the best-selling "Complete Guide to Walking", teams up with top exercise researcher, David R Bassett, to help readers get moving. These guys know what works, and they've got pedometers on the brain. During the last ten years, pedometer use has grown exponentially. 'Step counting' broke into the exercise vocabulary when Oprah started sporting her own pedometer, and the mania has only grown. Ten years ago there were five pedometers on the market; today there are dozens. But what to do with them? Hearing the cries for solid information, authors David R Bassett and Mark Fenton have stepped up. Covered in this guide are a history of step counting - Jefferson was a fan, and a pedometer was designed by Leonardo da Vinci - advice on choosing a pedometer, and a guide to starting a pedometer program, with looks at successful ones in the US, Australia, and Europe. Most important maybe the chapters treating the tremendously successful 10,000-steps-per-day programs initiated in Japan, as well as the modifications it needs to work for children and senior citizens. Aside from the pedometer itself, "Pedometer Walking" may be one of the most important exercise tools in years.
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