Walking with a pedometer, how many steps equal a mile?
As others have said, you have to figure out how long your stride is. An easy way to do this is to stretch a tape measure out, about 15 feet. Now stand with your toes at 0, starting with your right foot, take 10 normal steps and write down how far you went. Go back to 0 and starting with your left foot, take 10 normal steps and write down how far you went. Do this 10 times (start with right foot 5 times, start with left foot 5 times.) Now add up how far you went, divide by 10 to get an average (for 10 steps) and divide by 10 again to get an average for a single step (1 stride). Now divide 5280 feet by your average stride, and that will be how many steps equal a mile for you. Many pedometers will allow you to program your stride into them, and will figure out the distance for you. If not, its easy enough to do it for yourself. Just multiply your number of steps by your average stride. Have fun, and keep up the walking. :)
I am walking 2-5 miles a day. Why does my pedometer say that I am burning zero body fat?
Fat burning is not that simple!Lets try to understand when the fat is used for energy!When you run/walk past your regular speed you gain a healthy pace and thats when your body starts to consume the energy reserved, when this energy starts to diminish you brain will concentrate on the fat energy. Now what happens is fat enery is not a very efficient type of energy and also our needs to give in some energy to extrat it hence when you start to feel little tired thats when the body starts burning fat but most of us stop at that point and the process is not continued. You will have to push yourself bit by bit and soon you will start burning more and more fat. Caution : Don’t push yourself too hard, its not a one day process and has to be increased gradually over time. An improvement of 1–3 minutes in a months time is significant for bigenners.Next way of burning fat is by improving eating habbits, our body needs a minimum amount of energy to go through a day lets say its 2000 Cal and if we will eat less calories than 2000 it will create a defisit and body will try to focus on fat energy. You need to maintain a difference of 500 Cal every day for your body to burn enough fat to losse 1 pound of weight in a week. Note: If you will follow diet control make sure you consume good amount of fibres so that you dont feel hungry as that will only help increase weight(it happens for real) and also include all vitals in you diet and eat healthy quick diestive food.PS: I also reccomend you to check your pedometer, electronics is not 100% efficient in case of health and fitness, being an electronics engineer I know that Hope you have a Happy and healthy life.Arpan Jain
How long does someone have to jog in place to equal 1 mile? I googled this but couldnt find any info.?
10-12 minutes of jogging in place should equal a mile - that's at a slow-medium pace. If you are looking for indoor cardio there are lots of things you could do. The following is a routine you can do for 15 mintues or repeat it for a total of 30 mintues. Each move is done for 1 full minute. If you can, don't rest inbetween moves, but if you have to that's okay - just march in place for 30-60 seconds. RUN IN PLACE - kick heels up to buttocks JUMPING JACKS HEEL DIGS - press heel out in front of you and hop to switch feet BURPEES - standing place hands on floor and jump feet back into pushup position and then jump feet back towards hands and stand up (that completes one burpee) SPEED SKATER - leap to the right bring left leg slightly behind you and you reach towards the floor and then leap to the left bringing right leg slightly behind while reach towards the floor CROSS COUNTRY SKI - stand with legs together and jump up landing with right leg in front and left leg back then jump again switching feet in the air DOWNHILL SKI - feet together jump to right and then the left and stay low in a little bit of a squat position HIGH KNEES - run in place brining knees into the chest as much as you can SQUAT THRUST - kinda like a burpee but when you come up jump POWER JACKS - like a jumping jack but when your feet go wide go down into a squat and when jumping back with feet together do two hops JUMP ROPE - real or pretend SQUAT JUMPS - in a squat position jump up and land in squat position QUICK FEET - standing with feet wide run in place as fast as you can (think football) SQUAT W/ FRONT KICK - feet close together squat and come up and kick with the left then squat again and come up and kick the right and keep alternating SHUFFLE W/ KNEE - shuffle three times to the left and on the third one lift your right knee and then shuffle three times to the right lifting your left knee on the third one
When wearing a pedometer, if you walk backwards will it still count your steps?
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Homework Question!!! Please Help???!?!?
Please show work, if you can. It would be extremely appreciated!!!! Alice and Ben both carry pedometers when walking, to monitor how far they go. One day they go the same route, which Alice completes in 53 minutes, while Ben only takes 45 minutes. Alice’s pedometer registers the route length as 5.27 km but Ben’s pedometer suggests that it is 5.69 km. Neither knows whether their pedometer is accurate, so Alice takes hers to a reliable expert who tells her that her pedometer has been under-estimating distances travelled by 3.26%. Ben knows that his pedometer may consistently under or over estimate distances but does not get it checked. Ben wishes to calculate as accurately as possible his average speed on the route he took with Alice, and his average speed on future walks he takes with his own pedometer. Which one of the pieces of information given above is unnecessary to complete such calculations? A Alice completed the route in 53 minutes. B Alice’s pedometer registered the route as 5.27 km long. C Alice’s pedometer under-estimates distance by 3.26%. D Ben completed the route in 45 minutes. E Ben’s pedometer registered the route as 5.69 km long.
What counts as a step for a pedometer?
A step is when you lift one of your foot from a resting position e.g. both feet side-by-side, to form a distance from the other foot. So if your right foot hits the floor 10 times you have in fact walked 20 steps (assuming you started from the right foot and came to stop back to resting position with both feet side by side) 27 cal per 10 minutes is a normal amount. As always, the amount burned depends and differs from each and everyone of us. Don't worry about it. That amount seems good, if you're walking. I am heavier by 25kg than you are and as tall as you so I burn around 80 cal per 30 minutes, which equal to around 27 too. So it differs. Cheers ;-) If you need to buy some discount pedometers check this out. Have a nice day!
What is the use of pedometers during exercise?
Using Pedometers for Exercise MotivationTaking the devices like Pedometers that can keep the record of numbers of steps for any certain period of time with the help of smart internal monitoring technology; we can boost our enthusiasm to walk hard, to do lots of exercise for better fitness and health. Walking is a good exercise, no doubt in that. The use of pedometer is even simpler than you think. To avail the service of pedometers, place that in your pocket or else can tie it with your shoe before starting the walk. When you will start, the device will start to monitor the counts of your every step most accurately and enumerate precisely.The general pedometers are the phenomenal appliances that have the accuratecapacity to count the steps indicating the distance as well, how far you have traveled by a day. Thus it has become the ideal equipment for the walk lovers in order to find out at the end of the day that how much distance they have covered when they were in walk or in run. Once you will procure this device, you can also understand the usefulness and significance of this instrument. Briefly saying, it is a kind of machinery object that can keep every kind of record of your last workout program such as how many steps you have ran any particular day, your specific progress in work out, the time of your last jogging and so on.The greatness of this pedometer is unexplained in such short limit of words. Nonetheless, among all these comprehensive advantages of pedometer, one of the best and useful purposes is the boosting of our workout motivation by helping through the training and performance. The capacity of pedometer in that aspect is described below.
Pedometer troubles? how much is 0.081 miles? or 0.132Km?
.08 miles is not even a 10th of a mile. Chances are if you walked for an hour at about a 15 minute pace you did around 4 miles. That's an average pace. Why not try walking on a track and counting the laps that way? You'll get a much more accurate count of how far you've gone. 4 laps equals a mile. Sounds like you should get a refund on that pedometer!!