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Pedometers - Walking For Exercise

Pedometers, also known as step counters, are nifty little gadgets for counting how many steps you take during the course of your day.

If you have chosen walking for exercise to get back in shape, then a pedometer is a good investment because it will keep track of how many steps you are actually taking.

Whether you intend to go hiking, rambling, jogging or walking for exercise your trusty pedometer will count every single step you take.

Walking for exercise is the simplest, yet most effective aerobic work out you could ever do. It requires minimum effort but produces great results.

Walking for exercise requires continual movement of muscles, and burns fat. Muscle movements require energy and the energy that muscles consume usually comes from stored fat cells.

So if you keep walking and keep moving your muscles, you will constantly burn fat cells.

Walking For Exercise

Remember that pedometers are designed for step counting, so if you are going to look for pedometers, accuracy on this function must be your highest consideration.

You can also use a pedometer to count aerobic steps and some pedometers count the number of calories you are burning too.

You can wear a pedometer around your neck, in your pocket or even pop it in your handbag, although some cheaper pedometers only work if they’re worn horizontal to the ground i.e. strapped to your shoe or clipped to a belt.

Omron Walking Style II Pedometer

It’s worth investing in a goody quality pedometer to ensure accuracy.

The Omron Walking Style II Pedometer records steps, aerobic steps, distance (km), calories, fat burned and current time.

It comes with a belt clip, but also works in your pocket or your handbag.

Other features include four-second filter, seven day memory and battery-saving mode.

Prices start from just £14.35 and you can buy one from Amazon.co.uk

Omron Walking Style II Pedometer

Benefits of Using Pedometers When Walking For Exercise

To get the most benefit from using a pedometer you should wear it all day long. This will help you track your total activity throughout the day.

Studies have shown that short periods of walking for exercise have the same cumulative effect as one longer session. This means you don't have to set aside a dedicated amount of exercise time, you can get the benefits of exercise throughout the entire day.

Set yourself daily or weekly step targets. First wear your pedometer for a few days a see how many steps you usually take during the day and then set yourself reasonable targets to reach.

You don’t have to make the recommended 10,000 steps a day right from the word go, but you will be able to see how much you have to increase your daily activity over the next few weeks.

Increase your number of daily steps by using your pedometer to count the steps for you while you are walking for exercise.

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