Piece of crap. Pedometers dont do anything. Im a runner and bought the best pedometer I could find. It kept giving me either a lot more or a lot less distance every time. They are no good and have very little accuracy. Only good for really naive people.
If it was a GPS tracker like gamins forerunnes, that I would buy!
Agreed, Pedometers "kinda" work once you have them trained, and you don't change your stride when running, which of course, everyone does. If you're serious enough to invest in a device to track your time / distance GPS is the way to go, plus it works for biking too...
Here's the thing about pedometers: they work fine.
If you change your rhythm, it doesn't matter, it still can tell when you hit the ground on each foot.
It tells you how much effort you put in, so if you jogged really hard, but didn't 'go very far', the pedometer will accurately report that you ran the equivalent of 2 miles.
Sure, you may have been jogging in place at a stop light, but that still counts. It's a pedometer, not a jogging tripometer.
My wife once gave an earful to a jogger who, upon crossing in front of her while she was driving, began yelling "Hello! Jogger here!" at her. My wife slammed on the brakes and gave that woman a colorful lecture in who had the right-of-way. I swear she must have weaved a blanket of obscenities that, to my knowledge, is still lingering above our fine city of residence.
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Piece of crap. Pedometers dont do anything. Im a runner and bought the best pedometer I could find. It kept giving me either a lot more or a lot less distance every time. They are no good and have very little accuracy. Only good for really naive people.
If it was a GPS tracker like gamins forerunnes, that I would buy!
Agreed, Pedometers "kinda" work once you have them trained, and you don't change your stride when running, which of course, everyone does. If you're serious enough to invest in a device to track your time / distance GPS is the way to go, plus it works for biking too...
Here's the thing about pedometers: they work fine.
If you change your rhythm, it doesn't matter, it still can tell when you hit the ground on each foot.
It tells you how much effort you put in, so if you jogged really hard, but didn't 'go very far', the pedometer will accurately report that you ran the equivalent of 2 miles.
Sure, you may have been jogging in place at a stop light, but that still counts. It's a pedometer, not a jogging tripometer.
That's how it was explained to me anyway.
"Sure, you may have been jogging in place at a stop light, but that still counts"
Where is this mythical place where joggers actually obey traffic laws?
@ Barry
You win!
My wife once gave an earful to a jogger who, upon crossing in front of her while she was driving, began yelling "Hello! Jogger here!" at her. My wife slammed on the brakes and gave that woman a colorful lecture in who had the right-of-way. I swear she must have weaved a blanket of obscenities that, to my knowledge, is still lingering above our fine city of residence.